Last week (9th-15th) June was Diabetes Awareness Week, a week dedicated to shining a spotlight on a condition that affects 4.3 million people in the UK and that can have a profound impact on both physical and mental health. In this blog, Caroline Jackson, Kelly Fleetwood and Sarah Wild, explore the link between severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes and share more about what they are doing to investigate this link as part of their research at the Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry.