PI: Professor Jonathan Burns

Funders: Medical Research Council (MRC)

Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences Springboard (TrACES) is a programme of pump priming funding that will be competitively allocated to academics and groups of academics within the University of Exeter to develop sustainable relationships with specified LMIC countries as part of an evolving global research platform.

The primary aim of this platform is to harness existing expertise and knowledge among UK researchers on early life trauma (including adverse childhood experiences) and the mechanisms and pathways leading from such trauma to a spectrum of mental health, substance and violence-related outcomes, and expand this into collaborative research partnerships with LMIC researchers working in this field.