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Core Partnerships

Better adolescent mental health

BrainWaves is made possible through collaboration with leading academic institutions, schools, and philanthropic partners who share a commitment to improving adolescent mental health and wellbeing.

Our partners and funders play a vital role in supporting a programme that brings together rigorous research, ethical data infrastructure, and evidence-based practice in schools. Working alongside experts in psychiatry, neuroscience, education, and data science, they help ensure that BrainWaves can deliver long-term, high-quality insight and translate it into meaningful impact for young people.

Together, we are building a sustainable, collaborative framework, one that supports scientific discovery, strengthens educational practice, and places young people’s wellbeing at the centre of decision-making.

Our Partners

The University of Oxford is the acknowledged global leader in large cohort studies and the Department of Psychiatry’s portfolio of mental health research was recently recognised as the best in the UK. The department includes international expertise in affective disorders, governance (including ethics and consent), adolescent mental health trials and the management of large-scale data science programmes. BrainWaves is the only international longitudinal study of its kind to use the power of science as a bridge between the research community and the classroom.

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The Day is a digital online daily newspaper for young people, designed to encourage debate about serious contemporary issues. Its content has been endorsed by the UK’s Department for Education (DfE) and it has the largest audience of any news brand in the UK in its age group. It is used in UK and international schools by many thousands of teachers every day as part of their lesson planning and schools work closely with The Day to design the best resources. Affiliate schools will form the core of the BrainWaves programme to recruit student volunteers and shape effective in-school courses.

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The Population Data Science group, formerly known as the Health Informatics group at Swansea University Medical School, is at the forefront of the increasingly important field of Population Data Science – the science of data about people.
Swansea University is pioneering this science across a range of data-intensive initiatives hosted at the University Medical School. The group, led by Professors David Ford and Ronan Lyons, works locally, across the UK, and internationally to deliver a range of infrastructural, analytical and public engagement initiatives for the safe, socially-acceptable and effective use of population data for public benefit.

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