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.
‘IC Sverige’ is an experiential intervention for the Swedish context to increase resilience and cognitive and social flexibility in response to opposition and adversity (original design by Eolene Boyd-MacMillan, Amanda Ptolomey, and Laura Mathieson, 2015, 2016, 2017). Now also an instantiation of the IC-ADAPT model, the IC Sverige pilot study with waiting list control groups and follow-up measures is led by Umeå University in three contexts: schools with 16-19 yr. olds; community centres with 18-25 yr. olds; NGOs, with staff aged 25+ working with young people. (De Marinis, V, Nordendahl, M, Arnetz, B, Arnetz, J, Sandlund, M, Näslund, U, Boyd-MacMillan, E. (2018). Research Plan Report for the Pilot Study on Integrative Complexity (IC) Thinking in Sweden: a health promotion course/intervention for countering extremism for youth and young adults. Umeå University, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine. Umeå: Regional Ethics Committee 2018-report number 463-31).
The IC-ADAPT model is being instantiated in a pilot intervention for feasibility testing as part of a multi-disciplinary EU-funded H2020 DRIVE project spanning four countries.
A study exploring resilience and resistance among frontline healthcare workers in Australia, UK and USA during the COVID-19 and variant pandemic will use the IC-ADAPT model as an analytical framework for in-depth case studies.
Consortium members are collaborating on research focusing on various aspects of climate change.
Recent news
- New paper: Public Mental Health Approaches to Online Radicalisation: An Empty Systematic Review
- Feature Interview with Luma Bashmi: Designed Intervention
- 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

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

Research Associate
Department of Psychiatry
Cambridge Public Health
University of Cambridge
Graduate students

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

Yuhan Zou
MPhil candidate, Lucy Cavendish College
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
Consortium members
Patricia Andrews Fearon, Stanford University, USA
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
BJPsych Open’s Refugee And Asylum Mental Health Themed Series
Derrick Silove, Eolene Boyd-MacMillan and Maja Bruhn Kristiansen join BJPsych Open’s Digital Content Editor, Piyush Pushkar, to discuss BJPsych Open’s Refugee and Asylum Mental Health Themed Series.
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).
*(does not include publications on IC or ADAPT alone)