This year’s theme is “Discovery, Research Culture, and the Path to Impact“, celebrating the full journey of research — from generating new insights to advancing them along the path to impact. By bringing discovery and research culture together, we want to spotlight the people, partnerships, and practices that shape our evolving academic landscape. Join us as we explore how a thriving research culture accelerates impact and strengthens our shared commitment to improving mental health and neuroscience for the communities we serve.
The festival will showcase research from all parts of IoPPN and at all career stages, including research staff, academic staff and colleagues in professional services. This year, we are also pleased to include speakers with lived or living experience, recognising their vital contribution to shaping impactful, person-centred research.
Gerome Breen, Theme Lead for the BioResource for Mental Health and Professor of Psychiatric Genetics, has been announced as keynote speaker. He will present From Volunteers to Biopsychosocial Discovery: Building a National Omics Cohort for Depression and Anxiety as part of GLAD Mental Health Goas programme.
This year’s other keynote speakers are:
Stephani Hatch, Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology, and Vice Dean for Culture, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, on Accelerating equity in mental health through inclusive research culture and practices
Deepak Srivastava, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience on Human‑Relevant Models, Research Culture and Enabling Neuroscience
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Dr Saskia Sanderson, Data Science Lead from NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (TRC) Mission will be conducting a 5 minute talk on: Connecting Lived Experience, Collaboration and National Data in Mental Health Research.
and we will also hear five minute talks from
- Callum Glen, Francesca Maher & Petrina Chu on Accelerating Discovery: How adaptive trial designs can shorten the path to impact
- Dr Simone Fox on The implementation and development of multisystemic therapy across Europe: Research and practice implications
- Dr Gavin Stewart on From student projects to publication – supporting students to create an evidence base in an under-researched and under-funded topic
- Francesca Small on A Novel Short Acting Psychedelic Assisted Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder: Findings of a Phase 2 Open-Label, Clinical Trial of 5MEODMT
- The Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) on Shaping the Future of Research and Education with Lived Experience at the IoPPN
- Dr Laith Alexander on Developing the capabilities for non-invasive neuromodulation of the limbic system
- Professor Andrea Danese on Counting Adversity, Missing the Individual: Why ACE Scores are Poor Clinical Predictors
- Dr Leigh Wilson on Reframing Research Culture through Public Engagement
- Felicity Amberson-Jones on The path between “us vs them” and “we are them, and they are us”: The importance of lived experience voices being heard at long last
- Dr Laura Naysmith on Beyond the Change: Exploring Cognitive Health in Premature Ovarian Insufficiency
- Dr Olivier Brock on From Research Idea to Funding: Crafting Winning Proposals
…and more to be announced.
The event will finish with a drinks reception at the IoPPN Canteen from 16.45-18.00; and colleagues from across IoPPN and King’s, including CEDAR, the Psychiatry Research Trust, King’s Innovation Catalyst (amongst others), will also be manning stalls to answer any questions you might have on the work they do.
The festival is being recorded.
