The Centre for Social Futures looks at the role that families, carers and the wider community can play in helping people living with mental health problems.

The Centre seeks to transform how service users, carers and professionals work together in a new community of understanding. It seeks to advance social and cultural interventions that promote mental health recovery and help to address the gross inequalities experienced by people living with mental health conditions. The Centre is led by Professor Paul Crawford, professor of health humanities.

SoFU mission

Key goals are:

• The acknowledgment of the valuable role that social and cultural approaches can play in mental health care provision
• The empowerment of self-help, family and community-driven solutions to mental health challenges
• A renaissance of the interpretation and understanding of social and cultural aspects of lived experience to complement and inform science in mental health
• Carry out world-leading research into social and cultural dimensions of mental health conditions and experiences – and become a national beacon and catalyst for innovation

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