The IC-ADAPT Consortium was created to advance ongoing research, development and testing of the IC-ADAPT framework and interventions. Integrating two interdisciplinary, evidence-based models, the ecosocial IC-ADAPT model is applicable across the lifecycle and has validity across cultures and contexts.

Recent news

• REPORT – A City-Based Analysis: Social Polarisation and Public Health during COVID-19 
  A study examining destructive social polarisation, zero-sum mindsets, democratic values, social ties, and public mental health, including COVID-related experiences, through a large online survey in a large European city. The IC-ADAPT model was used as an analytical framework.

• Study by IC-ADAPT researcher Luma Bashmi looks at the Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers in Bahrain. 

• The IC-ADAPT Consortium is mentioned in the two penultimate paragraphs of chapter 5, Cognitive Complexity: Sometimes a Boon and Sometimes a Danger to Democracy, in a CUP publication, Psychology of Democracy. from Part I – Of the People, Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2022
  By Peter Suedfeld Edited by Ashley Weinberg
  Download it here>>

Consortium co-founders 

Dr Eolene Boyd-MacMillan  

Senior Research Associate 

Co-Director, IC research 

Department of Psychiatry 

Cambridge Public Health  

University of Cambridge, UK 

Professor Valerie DeMarinis 

Senior Professor in Public Mental Health 

Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine 

Umeå universitet / Umeå University, Sweden 

Professor in Public Mental Health Promotion 

Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway 

Professor Emeritus, Uppsala University, Sweden 

Dr Maria Nordendahl 

University Lecturer, general and family medicine 

Umeå University, Sweden 
Medical doctor practitioner, Region Norrbotten, Sweden 

Clinician, Primary Health Centre, a specialist in migrant care, Sweden  

Professor Derrick Silove  

Senior Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, UK 

Professor Emeritus, University of South New Wales, Australia 

Dr Alvin Kuowei Tay 

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Fellow 

University of South New Wales, Australia 

Visiting Scholar, Department of Counselling and Clinical Psychology 

Teachers College, Columbia, USA 

DRIVE Post-Doctorate Researcher

Dr Rabya Mughal

Research Associate

Department of Psychiatry

Cambridge Public Health

University of Cambridge

Graduate students 

Patricia Andrews Fearon

PhD Candidate, Gates Cambridge Scholar, Selwyn College

Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge

Luma Bashmi 

PhD candidate, King’s College

Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

Lecturer in Psychology, School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Bahrain (RCSI) 

Former Head of Scientific Research & Development / Chairperson of the Institutional Review Board, King Hamad University Hospital

Co-Founder, Co-Director eLaa Beirut, Lebanon

Lindsay Branham

PhD Candidate, Cambridge Trust Scholar, Kings College

Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge

Consortium members 

Professor Chris Baumann, Macquarie University Australia

Dr Claire Campbell, Ulster University, UK

Professor Fei Guo, Macquarie University, Australia

Professor Roberto Lewis-Fernando, Columbia University, USA

Dr Louise Lafortune, University of Cambridge, UK

Professor Siobhan O’Neill, Ulster University, UK

Dr Daniel Robins, University of Cambridge/ University of Oxford, UK

Dr Liam Saddington, University of Cambridge, UK

Professor Jagdip Singh, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Professor Suzan Song, Harvard University, USA

Dr Timothy Stojanovic, University of St Andrews, UK

Professor Emeritus Peter Suedfeld, University of British Columbia, Canada

Professor Wietse Toll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Upcoming Events

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Previous Events

Panelist presentation by Dr Eolene Boyd-MacMillan: Mobilising resources and managing environmental stressors to flourish in a new context: The IC-ADAPT model in action

25 March 2022

Environmental Displacement and Migration: Drivers, Impacts and Solutions 

Organised by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement in association with Cambridge Zero

Uppsala Health Summit: Pathways to Lifelong Mental Wellbeing

Wednesday 20 October 2021

‘Public Mental Health Promotion as an Integral Part of Clinical and Community Care Programmes’ 

Workshop policy brief summarising presentations and discussions among international participants  available here>>

Presenters, policy brief authors: Professor Valerie DeMarinis (Umeå University, Uppsala University, Innlandent Hospital Trust, Norway), Professor Lars Lien (Innlandet Hospital Trust, the Norwegian Psychiatry Association, Sapmi Klinikka, Karasjok, Norway, Arctic University, and University of Tromsø)

Invited Workshop Discussion Group Leaders: Dr Eolene Boyd-MacMillan (University of Cambridge), Dr Maria Nordendahl (Umeå University)

Compendium of policy briefs from all 8 workshops available here>>

IC-ADAPT publications and presentations*

DeMarinis, V., Boyd-MacMillan, E., Nordendahl, M. (2021). Public Mental Health Overview Report. Drive Project Research Report Series 2, The Hague: Leiden University. 

Boyd-MacMillan, E. and DeMarinis, V. (3rd February 2021). Presentation: Learning passport – social and emotional learning,  climate change, and IC-ADAPT-SEL. UNICEF roundtable on creating curricula for education in emergencies: Reflections on the learning passport and beyond. Chaired by INEE (International Network for Education in Emergencies).  

Boyd-MacMillan, E. (2020). ‘Recognising social and emotional learning in the curriculum’ in W. Millard and J. McIntosh (Eds) Social and emotional learning and the new normal: A summary of the Centre for Education and Youth and STiR Education Roundtable, with accompanying think pieces. London: CFEY and STiR Education, p.17. 

Boyd-MacMillan, E. and DeMarinis, V. (2020). Learning Passport: Curriculum Framework (IC-ADAPT SEL high level programme design). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press & Cambridge Assessment. 

Cambridge University Press & Cambridge Assessment. (2020). ‘Section Four, Mental health, psychosocial support and social and emotional learning’ in The Learning Passport: Research and Recommendations Report. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press & Cambridge Assessment. (Section Four authored by Boyd-MacMillan, E. and DeMarinis, V.)  

*(does not include publications on IC or ADAPT alone)