I am a junior psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. My Fellowship focuses on identifying innovative digital and community-based models of mental healthcare. My particular area of interest is in improving community-level access to mental healthcare for underserved groups in the UK.

Our community services are under immense strain. These barriers to care are often worse for young people, ethnic minority communities and LGBTQ+ individuals, who may find existing services unwelcoming or structurally inaccessible. I'll study how Japan and South Korea have responded to similar challenges, especially with cultural stigma and ageing populations.

I plan to research community-based interventions, including digital tools, peer-led research, and nature-based and eastern psychodynamic therapies. Learning how these models work in practice could help us assess whether they can inform new directions for the NHS. This Fellowship will help me build a toolkit of ideas to be adapted for the NHS to make mental healthcare more inclusive, preventative and truly rooted in the community.