The psychiatry ashes: It’s not cricket!

From the Editor's desk

“…The New Year begins with a new partnership between the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Cambridge University Press, signalling our shared commitment to excellence in research and scholarship for patient impact. Readers will also have noticed the launch of the Psychiatry Ashes, a friendly competition between the editorial boards of the BJPsych and the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry on research impact 1 , 2 . We hope to raise the profile of the use of psychiatric research, and at the same time shed some light on the nature of mental health problems among performers in the sports and arts, and performance in the professions, including psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health carers.…”

Ashes to Ashes

“…The purpose of the Psychiatry Ashes, how the concept was devised and by whom it is being overseen were the subject of editorials in both ANZJP and BJPsych in the December issues of both journals (Bhui and Malhi, 2017;Malhi and Bhui, 2017). In this issue, we briefly introduce the teams that have been carefully handpicked using complex algorithms and detailed insights, in other words, cunning and craft.…”