Helen Killaspy

Helen Killaspy is Professor and Honorary Consultant in Rehabilitation Psychiatry. Her research focuses on services and interventions for people with complex mental health problems.

She is Chief Investigator for two major national programmes of research, both funded for five years through the National Institute of Health Research Programme Grants for Applied Research funding stream. The Rehabilitation Effectiveness for Activities for Life (REAL) project is a national study of inpatient mental health rehabilitation services across England which aims to identify the factors associated with better outcomes for users of these services. The second programme is also a national study across England investigating the quality and outcomes associated with specialist supported accommodation for people with mental health problems - the Quality and Effectiveness of Supported Tenancies (QuEST) project.

Professor Killaspy was joint Chief Investigator (with Professor Mike Crawford, Imperial College and Professor Di Waller, Goldsmith's College) for the first RCT to investigate the efficacy of group art therapy for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (the MATISSE Study) which was funded by the DH Heath Technology Assessment.