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Potential collaborators Jose Abdelnour-Nocera - [email protected] University of West London

José Abdelnour Nocera is Associate Professor (Reader) in Sociotechnical Design and Head of the Sociotechnical Centre for Innovation and User Experience at the University of West London. He is the current Chair for UNESCO IFIP TC 13.8 working group in Interaction Design for International Development, as well as Chair for the British Computer Society Sociotechnical Specialist Group. His interests lie in the sociotechnical and cultural aspects of systems design, development and use. In pursuing these interests, he has been involved as researcher and consultant in several projects in the UK and overseas in the domains of mHealth, e-learning, social development, e-commerce, e-governance and enterprise resource planning systems. Dr. Abdelnour-Nocera gained an MSc in Social Psychology from Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela, and a PhD in Computing from The Open University, UK.

Charith Abhayaratne - [email protected] University of Sheffield

My research expertise is in computer vision, multidimensional signal processing and analysis, video and image coding and streaming, multi-modal sensing, data analysis machine learning and applications in creative industries, networked digital media, security, surveillance, assisted living, healthcare, remote sensing and digital manufacturing. In terms of assisted living, my past projects included vision-based monitoring of lifestyle, behaviour and activities of daily living for promoting independent living for older people. These projects have resulted in tools for fall detection, activity level/intensity estimation, abnormal activity/behaviour pattern detection. All these technologies used low-cost visual sensors and first-person cameras. The algorithms were made privacy-aware visual processing leading to non-visual outputs. The other relevant project includes design of a vision based human balance (sway) monitoring technology, hand gesture recognition, hand gesture-based interface for PC/TV operation, fast signal processing methods for fMRI image analysis.

Jim Ang - [email protected] University of Kent

I am a Senior Lecturer in Multimedia and Digital Systems. My main research area is in digital health, where I investigate, design and develop new technologies which can provide treatment and management of health conditions through effective prevention, early intervention, personalised treatment and continuous monitoring of the conditions. I am particularly interested in virtual worlds (virtual or augmented reality), computer games and sensing technologies. I work with researchers from various disciplines, including electronic/mechanical engineering, bio and medical sciences, psychology/psychiatry. My recent projects include i) development of algorithms for wristband sensors to monitor epileptic seizures collaborating with a clinical consultant and software companies; ii) design of mobile apps and algorithms for emotion detection based on phone usage patterns ii) design/development of skin-like sensors and the accompanying algorithms for swallowing/checking monitoring; iii) design of virtual reality applications for people with dementia, working with a psychiatry hospital and care homes. Brian Brivati - [email protected] The Stabilisation and Recovery Network

Dr Brian Brivati is Director of the Stabilisation and Recovery Network, which is a social enterprise working in conflict and post-conflict situations. It runs PSVI, reconciliation and sub-national governance projects for the FCO in Iraq and incorporates practice based research in trauma and recovery methodologies. TSRN has an academic partnership with Kingston University and their expressive writing and listening project http://www.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-showcase/research-case- studies/expressive-writing-workshops-in-iraq/

Dan Black - [email protected] db+a, UWE and Reading University

I am currently Project Director of a 3-year Wellcome Trust’s Our Planet Our Health pilot, which aims to make health a priority upstream in urban development decision-making. We have compiled available evidence linking urban form to health outcomes (including mental health), are currently developing the economic valuation of cost-benefit (e.g. proximity to green space), and are undertaking two rounds of ‘elite interviews’ with top executives from six case study partners. We are highly focused on impact, targeting key power centres and dynamics. Our partners include representatives from all the UK’s major urban development delivery agencies: city region, city council, district council, development corporation, FTSE250 volume house- builder and major real estate developer. I have also led two other InnovateUK/NERC-funded studies, which linked projected economic costs of climate change to end payer, and another on what is ‘good density’ development. I specialise also in impact assessment (health/sustainability) for mixed-use large-scale urban development.

Dan Bloomfield - [email protected] University of Exeter

I have spent four years (funded by NERC and Valuing Nature Programme) developing partnerships between NERC science, primary care referrers, patients, service providers and environmental charities, creating a network of nature-on-referral projects across the south-west (www.adoeofnature.net).This has involved a multi-disciplinary team across the University of Exeter (medical school, life sciences, psychology) and has resulted in ongoing collaborations with local authorities, commissioners and a newly established social prescribing network in Cornwall. Our network would now benefit from help getting grounded in social science and economic evaluation. I work closely with Mind and other mental health charities to make links with relevant research at the university and am an author on a forthcoming systematic review of social prescribing modalities, as well as a psychotherapist focusing on anxiety, hearing voices and eating disorders.

Lisa Bortolotti - [email protected] [email protected]

I am a Philosopher of the Cognitive Sciences, who is interested in the relationship between rationality and mental health and who has worked on delusion, confabulation, false memory, positive illusions, and break-downs of self-knowledge. I am currently the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant and my project (2014-2019) looks at the unexpected benefits of cognitive states that are either false or irrational. Josefien Breedvelt - [email protected] Mental Health Foundation

I am the research manager at the Mental Health Foundation, which is a UK-wide research charity. Our research interest lies in the prevention of mental health problems across the life course, with interest in transitions and pressure points, with a focus on marginalised communities. We are also interested in the potential of digital mental health technology for improving mental health, reducing stress and promoting behaviour change. At the Mental Health Foundation I develop and lead on public mental health research projects across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We have a long-standing history in user-led research, co-production and involvement of people with lived experience. In addition, we are experienced in knowledge exchange activities. For example, the Foundation hosts Mental Health Awareness week and regularly offers an active voice in the public and policy narrative related to public mental health.

Liz Brewster - [email protected] Lancaster University

My research focuses on self-directed, self-defined, non-medical interventions for mental health. I am interested in how people find small-scale solutions to manage their mental health and well-being for themselves without engaging with health services, and what health services can learn from this. My work has previously focused on reading (fiction, poetry, self-help, non-fiction) and online photography sharing for mental health. I currently work on digital daily practices – everyday activities that connect online communities and improve well-being. My interest is in exploring the affordances and complexities of these practices, with a view to considering equitable and safe access for vulnerable groups. I also lead research with aged military veterans, exploring storytelling and autobiography in the context of well-being. I am an experienced qualitative researcher, using ethnographic methods to facilitate healthcare improvement. I hold a PhD from the University of Sheffield and work as a lecturer at Lancaster University.

Matthew Broome - [email protected] University of Birmingham

I am Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health and Director of the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Birmingham. http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/ news-events/2017/26Jul-spotlight-imh.aspx The IMH at Birmingham is explicitly interdisciplinary, including colleagues from social science, education, psychology, philosophy & ethics, psychiatry, neuroimaging, and sport, exercise & rehabilitation sciences, as well as colleagues in the NHS and Third Sector. My own research has been largely in the area of early intervention and in psychosis, particularly in those at risk of developing psychotic illness, and in the formation of delusions, utilizing functional neuroimaging, cognitive neuropsychology, psychopathology and health service evaluation methodologies. I also work in mood instability trans-diagnostically and self- harm and suicide. I have a second PhD in the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health; I have published widely in this area and, to a lesser extent, in the medical humanities in relation to neuroscience and psychiatry.

Steven Brown - [email protected] University of Leicester

I am a social psychologist who has researched and published on mental health service user experiences of secure forensic psychiatric settings. I am an Honorary research consultant with St Andrews Healthcare. I am a member of Design in Mental Health Network. I am Associate Dean for Research at the University of Leicester School of Business. Stefano Casalotti - [email protected] University of East London

At the University of East London we have formed a multi-disciplinary network of academics and practitioners with an interest in substance use and misuse. Our interest spans cognitive effects of addictive substances, drug-induced changes at cellular molecular level, evaluation of drug treatment programmes, socio-economic impact of drug consumption, and development of legislation in substance misuse. We have established links with community groups and have international research collaborations. We strongly believe in the importance of multidisciplinary links and we are looking for further funding to progress our work.

Helen Cassaday - [email protected] University of Nottingham

Helen Cassaday is Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham. She investigates the underlying biology of associative learning processes, fundamental to normal cognition, in laboratory rats. Animal learning theories and procedures translate to our understanding of mental health conditions in which associative processes are disordered. For example, in cases of schizophrenia, we find that learning occurs inappropriately, about stimuli that would normally be treated as irrelevant, redundant or in some other way indistinct. Intervention studies in rat models have compared the effects of localised treatments within dopaminergic structures on: (1) latent inhibition, based on past experience with the cue or ‘acquired salience’; and (2) cue competition through overshadowing, based on relative intensity of the cue or ‘intrinsic salience’. To promote translation of these findings to our understanding of human mental health, her group have also established associative learning procedures suitable for use with human participants. For example to test participants who have received a diagnosis of schizophrenia, Tourette syndrome or ADHD. Helen’s work has been funded by MRC, Wellcome Trust and BBSRC. She has previously served on a number of BBSRC panels and presently attends the Bioscience for Health Strategy Panel. She also sits on the BPS Research Board and Ethics Committee, as Responsibility Holder for Animal Welfare in Psychology.

Hannah Chamberlain - [email protected] Mental Snapp Limited

I have developed Mental Snapp, which is an app to help users actively manage their mental health using private video diaries. Currently the app is free to use on the App Store and has 250+ users, whose use of the app is being independently evaluated by London Southbank University. The next steps for the app are to set up an individual user automated journey through the app, so that the user is guided with intelligent responses to what they have recorded on the video diaries, based on the tags they have attached to the videos. This user journey will promote better mental health and also allow the user space to reflect.

Helen Chatterjee - [email protected] University College London

Helen Chatterjee is a Professor of Biology in UCL Biosciences and Head of Research and Teaching for UCL Culture. Her research investigates the role of cultural participation in enhancing health outcomes for a range of audiences, including mental health service users, stroke survivors and people with dementia; she works in partnership with health, social care, community and cultural organisations. In 2015 Helen established the National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing and was awarded an MBE for services to Higher Education and Culture. She is currently Principal Investigator on: ‘Museums on Prescription’, connecting socially isolated older adults with museums through social prescribing across London and Kent (AHRC); ‘Not So Grim Up North’ a partnership with Manchester and Tyne & Wear Museums (ACE); the psychosocial impact of arts engagement in supporting refugees and asylum seekers in London and Talbieh Camp, Jordan (ESRC/GCRF). Helen has published 3 books and over 50 research articles; for more information visit: https:// culturehealthresearch.wordpress.com/ Anastasia Christakou - [email protected] University of Reading

I study the neurobiology of learning through experience and of behavioural adaptation in humans and other animals. I am particularly interested in the development of these abilities in the cognitive and emotional domains and at their interface. I use functional, structural and neurochemical brain imaging. I complement these techniques with computational modelling of behaviour, and with theoretical analysis. I apply my work to understanding neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. ADHD and autism) and psychopathology (e.g. anxiety disorders and depression), as well as typical development and ageing. In the context of this work, I have recently become interested in the biology of belief formation, maintenance and updating, and in the development of these mechanisms in late childhood and adolescence.

Bryan Clark - [email protected] Falmouth University

Bryan leads the School of Graphic Design at Falmouth. He is a graduate of Norwich School of Art and is an established designer with a 20-year consultancy career in design. His creative work across branding, packaging and print design has been internationally recognised through publication, exhibition and award. He has worked with government and cultural organisations as board member and consultant, including the Design Council and British Council. His work has been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery and the Design Museum London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Rachel Cooper - [email protected] Lancaster University

I’m a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University. My background is in History and Philosophy of Science. I work on conceptual issues concerning the classification of psychopathology, and have published extensively on the DSM (in journals across philosophy, history of psychiatry, psychiatry and clinical psychology). I have interests in a wide-range of issues including the conceptualisation of co-morbidity (how is it possible to tell whether someone suffers from two distinct disorders, or just one complex problem); the conceptualisation of cross-cultural variation; how diagnostic labels shape self- understanding; the definition of disorder; the importance of service-user involvement in research; and the role of values in diagnosis and classification.

Lynne Coventry - [email protected] Northumbria University

I am research director for Psychology and represent a number of health psychologists who investigate mental health from different directions including stress, sleep, chronic fatigue, and intellectual disability.My particular interest is in the impact of social media on mental health and anxiety.

Tim Croudace - [email protected] University of Dundee

Tim Croudace is Professor of Applied Health Research and Health Technology Assessment & Director, in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Dundee. Director, Dundee Centre for Health And Related Research. 130+ Publications, majority on mental health or mental health at the interface with social science or life-course epidemiology (cross and inter-disciplinary) [birth] Cohort studies and mental health, psychometric epidemiology and health technology assessment, measurement of mental health and related constructs Expert Advisor on this topic and public mental health to the CMO (Dame Sally Davies) and Expert Advisor to NHS England.Mentor to personal award holders researching in this thematic area. Further info available on request or see See Google Scholar: tim croudace.

James Cusack - [email protected] Autistica, London

Since 2015 I have been the director of science at Autistica: the UK’s leading autism research charity. I am responsible for Autistica’s research strategy and research programme. We focus on the community’s most urgent priorities and aim to act as a catalyst for autism research in the UK.The autism community’s top priority for research is to understand the link between mental health and autism. 80% of autistic people report having an additional mental health problem and they are 7.5 times more likely to die from suicide. We have invested over £1m in research to understand autism and mental health and to develop new interventions. In September we launched Discover: the UK’s first national autism research network. Using Discover we aim to bring researchers, professional autistic people, and family members together to work strategically and build long, happy, healthy lives through autism research. Philip Davis - [email protected] University of Liverpool

Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS) at the University of Liverpool has taken the study of literary reading into the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, to work with psychologists and health professionals in examining the real-world value of Shared Reading for mental health. Shared Reading as outreach work differs from conventional book clubs because literary texts from all ages are read live, not in advance, to engage a variety of often hard-to-reach communities (drug rehabilitation centres, prisons, GP drop-in centres, libraries) in deep personal discussion. Cross- disciplinary methods match the multi-dimensional nature of the reading group, including linguistic analysis of videos and transcripts, individual interviews, quantitative measures of wellbeing, brain-imaging, and physiological measures. We are currently investigating collaborations in England (Professor Rick Rylance, School of Advanced Studies; Dr Neil Vickers, Medical Humanities at King’s) and overseas (Interactive Mind Centre, Aarhus; Arthur Jacob’s lab at Free University of Berlin).

Helen Dawes - [email protected] Oxford Brookes University

Professor Dawes is a physiotherapist and clinical exercise/movement scientist. Her research explores the body-mind interface and the role of movement and physical activity in detection, monitoring and developing interventions for a healthy body and mind over the lifespan. Her research spans from understanding underpinning mechanisms through to co-designing tools and systems. Her recent work includes a number of large studies in adolescents exploring wellbeing, cognition, movement and physical activity interfaces, and the development of pathways in secondary school to engage all young people in meaningful occupational activities including sport and exercise. Her work is multidisciplinary and she works closely with clinicians, academics and teachers. All research activities and outputs are co-designed, guided and monitored by User Steering Groups (adult and children). Current research includes funding from the EU, NIHR, Research Councils and charities. She has over 120 publications, with 2982 citations, a h-index 27, and i10-index 52.

Kelly Dickson - [email protected] University College London

I have conducted several mixed method systematic reviews where mental health was either the main focus of the review or included mental health outcomes - most recently, a review which included a qualitative evidence synthesis on the implementation and receipt of Mental Health and Psychosocial programmes for people affected by humanitarian emergencies.

Louise Dye - [email protected] Leeds University

Louise Dye is the N8 Chair (http://n8agrifood.ac.uk/) and Professor of Nutrition and Behaviour in the University of Leeds Human Appetite Research Unit, based in the School of Psychology, University of Leeds. Following a PhD in Human Psychopharmacology, she has accumulated more than two decades of experience in the assessment of cognitive function following nutritional and pharmacological intervention. She has held MRC and Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowships in the UK and Europe and an EU funded Marie Curie Professorial Fellowship in Jena, Germany. Professor Dye is a Chartered Health Psychologist and British Psychological Society member. In her N8 role, she is interested in how to encourage and sustain dietary behaviour change at individual, organisational and societal levels, linking to global issues of food production/supply, inequality and health. Her particular expertise is the effects of food and food components on cognitive performance, digestive function and appetite control including in altered metabolic states such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, dementia as well as genetic disorders such as PKU and Cystic Fibrosis. Lisa Erickson - [email protected] Ogenblik Ltd

Our company, Ogenblik Ltd., is a social enterprise devoted to designing and developing commercially sustainable solutions to mental health and wellbeing challenges through the creative use of digital technology. OliTool, our first product in development, is aimed at aiding individuals to manage their anxiety, stress, worry and related symptomatic behaviours. Thanks to a Nominet Trust Social Tech Seed 2016 award, OliTool was developed and trialled at Exeter University in Spring 2016 on a small cohort of students and staff experiencing worry and anxiety. The study results were very positive, with some statistically significant outcomes, providing proof of principle that OliTool is an effective tool to manage and modify challenging behaviours. We have also worked closely with various departments at UCL, including the Department of Clinical Health Psychology and the Centre for Behaviour Change. Our aim is to pursue further research and trialling on a cross disciplinary and participatory design platform.

Katie Evans - [email protected] Money and Mental Health Policy Institute

As Head of Research and Policy at Money and Mental Health, I lead a programme of research aiming to understand why people experiencing mental health problems are more likely to be in financial difficulty, and recommending pragmatic policy solutions to government, regulators, firms and healthcare services. In this role, I advise the CMA, FCA, Open Banking, NHS England and Public Health England, among others. I have a particular interest in developing ways to support good financial management and prevent financial difficulty among this vulnerable group. I joined Money and Mental Health from the Social Market Foundation, an independent think-tank, where I led a programme of research on consumer markets policy. My work considered how markets for essential services can be designed to work better for consumers, particularly those in vulnerable circumstances. I am a trained economist, with additional qualifications in qualitative research methods.

Nick Ewbank - [email protected] Nick Ewbank Associates

As Director of consultancy business Nick Ewbank Associates, I have collaborated with the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) on several research projects in the past 5 years, including project managing Cultural Value and Social Capital (for the AHRC’s Cultural Value Project) and Cultural Engagement and Wellbeing (with Wellcome Trust Seed Award funding). A Visiting Research Fellow at CCCU and at Edge Hill University, I am particularly interested in collaborative projects combining biomedical and social science approaches. The aim of ongoing research is to accelerate understanding of the biological, psychological and social processes by which arts and cultural engagement impacts on health and wellbeing inequalities, particularly in terms of mental health.

Eleonora Fichera - [email protected] University of Bath

My research interests are in the socio-economic determinants of health outcomes and behaviours in developed and developing countries. Recent related work has focused on the relation between physical and mental health, housing and wellbeing, the effect of in-utero influenza exposure on later life socio- emotional wellbeing, the effect of psychological parenting interventions on adolescents’ mental health and the effect of conditional cash transfer programmes on mental health. Most of my work is funded by cross-council initiatives, particularly between MRC, ESRC, Wellcome Trust and DFiD. I have held a MRC Early Career Fellowship in Economics of Health at the University of Manchester after which I moved onto a position of Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath. Helen Fisher - [email protected] Kings College London

My expertise lies in the careful assessment of the social environment and developmental psychopathology, and utilising biopsychosocial approaches to improve our understanding of the emergence and prevention of mental health problems across childhood and adolescence. My interdisciplinary training in psychology, social psychiatry, epidemiology, genetics and epigenetics, was supported by an ESRC/MRC interdisciplinary PhD studentship and MRC/ESRC interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship. My programme of cross-council funded research incorporates environmental (social, neighbourhood, pollution) and biological (genetic and epigenetic) factors across development to understand the mechanisms involved in the onset and persistence of mental health problems. I jointly lead an ESRC-BBSRC funded project to explore epigenetic signatures of exposure to adolescent psychosocial stressors; am PI on a NERC-MRC-CSO grant linking modelled air pollution data with prospectively collected mental health data on adolescents; and supervise an ESRC Multidisciplinary studentship examining the interplay between neighbourhood social processes and genetics in emergence of early psychotic symptoms.

Chris Flood - [email protected] City, University of London

Chris Flood has interests in health economics, patient safety, suicide, and service user involvement. Chris is currently involved as co-applicant in x2 funded bids, exploring peer support in the aftercare of people who have experienced strokes and a study exploring models of psychosocial support for families with a child who has a long term gastrostomy feeding tube in situ. Chris is also part of a research team at City, University of London researching mental health and physical health care and in particular diabetes. Currently I am participating in two economic evaluations as part of trials into interventions for blephorospasm and rheumatoid arthritis. I have recently submitted for publication 3 papers – one on the safe use of midazolam in dentistry, one on attitudes of nursing students towards suicidal patients and one on the measurement of utility health economic scores amongst mental health service users.

Paolo Fraccaro - [email protected] University of Manchester

I am a post-doctoral research associate in Health Data Science, looking at how we can use technology and statistical modelling to improve the way we deliver care. I am working on an EPSRC-funded project ‘The Wearable Clinic’ (https://www.herc.ac.uk/research_project/wearable-clinic-connecting- health-self-care/), which focuses on combining information from wearables and smartphones with electronic health records from clinical databases to tailor care in chronic patients. One of our clinical exemplars is Serious Mental Illness.

Lynn Froggett - [email protected] University of Central Lancashire

I am Director of the Psychosocial Research Unit at Uclan. Mental Health Research is one of our key streams, especially within Addictions, Arts and Health, Public Health, and community mental health remit. We have developed creative methodologies for highly sensitive topics specifically for use in a mental health context. Recent work has focused on Dementia and other forms of memory loss, recovery from substance misuse, male impotence, the Health Trainer Service and the conditions of mentally healthy communities. Emily Glorney - [email protected] Royal Holloway University of London

I am a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist, I conduct qualitative and quantitative research. I worked for 10 years conducting clinical assessments and delivering therapeutic interventions in a high secure hospital for men with personality disorder and/or mental illness. My research focuses on the mental health of offenders in hospitals, prisons and the community, and forensic mental health service delivery. I continue to be involved in the psychological assessment of risk of re-offending presented by male prisoners. Recent research includes the relationship between traumatic brain injury and violence among women prisoners, evaluation of a specialist brain injury service for women in prison, self-harm by male prisoners, and pathways to online sexual offending.

Dabo Guan - [email protected] University of East Anglia

I am leading a NERC interdisciplinary project in assessing socioeconomic effects of air pollution triggered health consequences. In particular, I model the propagated effects of physical health damage to labour availability and productivity through entire economic supply chains. Further, we assess citizens’ psychological impact caused by air pollution and translate such damage to labour productivity loss and economic costs. During such project, I also extensively work with national and local stakeholders in understanding their perceptions in pollution mitigation, coordination and expectations on research and policy directions. Second, I have extensive experience in understanding emission-dementia-socioeconomic nexus in global ageing societies. I specialise in emission accounting and socioeconomic modelling. Expertise in medical sciences and atmospheric chemistry can be potentially found in this network event. I was a Lead Author for IPCC AR5. I published over 100 articles, including 14 in Nature and Science. I received PNAS Cozzarelli-Prize-2014, Leontief Prize 3 times and award for the Philip-Leverhulme-Prize.

Marion Henderson - [email protected] University of Glasgow

Chief Investigator on two NIHR PHR funded randomised controlled trials, the SEED and THRIVE Trials: both funded for five years and involve multiple sites. The trials involve international collaborations. The SEED Trial is among the first UK, large-scale and rigorous evaluations of primary school interventions aimed at promoting pupils’ mental health. The THRIVE Trial is a three-armed trial to compare the effectiveness of two interventions aimed at improving both mother-child interaction and maternal mental health. THRIVE is recruiting from women identified as having additional social and care needs during pregnancy. Also, co-investigator on the Best Services Trial: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the New Orleans Intervention Model for Infant Mental Health (BeST 2). BeST2 recruits families who have had an infant removed due to maltreatment and neglect. Thus, both the THRIVE and BeST2 Trials are working with populations with multiple needs and challenges and disproportionately at risk of poorer mental health.

Clare Hickman - [email protected] University of Chester

I am a historian of designed landscapes in relation to medical ideas including public parks, psychiatric hospital gardens, and therapeutic landscapes generally (my monograph on therapeutic landscapes was published by MUP in 2013 and I have also published in the History of Psychiatry Journal and The Lancet: Psychiatry). I have recently held a Wellcome post-doctoral fellow and am currently working with Historic England on the development of a research bid exploring the relationship of public parks and their histories to mental wellbeing. Currently I’m a Lecturer in History at the University of Chester. Jo Hodgekins - [email protected] University of East Anglia

I am a Clinical Psychologist and Academic (Senior Lecturer) in the field of psychosis and youth mental health. I am interested in the relationship between mental health and functioning. I have experience of developing psychological interventions (Social Recovery Therapy) and conducting clinical trials with people with and at-risk of psychosis in order to improve social and functional outcomes. I am interested in exploring factors which may place young people at increased risk of severe mental health difficulties and long-term poor functional outcomes. I have experience of using large pre-existing data sets to compare levels of functioning between clinical and non-clinical samples. I have developed a functional outcome tool for use in clinical populations, adapted from a tool used by the Office of National Statistics – the Time Use Survey. I have used this tool to model long-term functional outcomes of people with first episode psychosis.

Susan Hogan - [email protected] Derby University

AHRC 2013-18. Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health & Well-Being (AHRC Communities, Cultures, Health & Wellbeing Research Grants, Cross-council Programme). Consortia Bid of £1,203,200.00 (co-investigator and stream lead, The Birth Project) from 1/5/2013-18 (AHRC grant ref. AH/K003364/1). My substantive time on this ended August 2016, though I shall be continuing to work on impact activities until 2018. Mar 15. AHRC Large Grant. Symposium on Health Humanities: Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery £6,800 Connected Communities Festival. Nov 11-13. ESRC Seminar Series. Arts, Health and Wellbeing Research: Creating Effective Collaborations. A UK Network for Arts and Health Research and Development. Co-applicant £10,000 & Seminar Series Steering-Group Member. 09-11. Representing Self - Representing Ageing. Co-applicant in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, Department of Sociology, and Eventus Arts. Cross-Council New Dynamics of Ageing. An Interdisciplinary Programme £359,000. RES – 356-25-0040. 10/09 to 10/11. (Impact Report rated as Outstanding). Also Wellcome Trust.

Chris Hollis - [email protected] University of Nottingham

I am a clinician scientist with a leading international research profile in mental health and digital health technology [h index=41; >6800 citations; i10 index=82]. My research leadership roles include; Director of the NIHR MindTech Healthcare Technology Co-operative (HTC) in mental health (www.mindtech.org.uk) (£1.25) and the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health &Technology Theme (£3.75M). My work harnesses mobile and wearable technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, affective computing and social signal processing to develop objective assessment and intervention technologies including virtual human (VH) agents. I have bridged traditional research boundaries, bringing together the disciplines of psychiatry, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computer science and engineering to develop innovative technological solutions for mental health problems. I was lead author of ‘Technological innovations in mental healthcare’ in 2013 CMO Annual Report, and I am a member of the EPSRC NewMind Network and the Innovate UK Digital Health Advisory Panel.

Meg Jensen - [email protected] Kingston University

My research interest is the interface between testimony, traumatic disorders and autobiographical narratives and comprises three strands: creative, critical and applied. I am currently writing a monograph for Palgrave’s Studies in Life Writing Series entitled Negotiated Truth: The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical, in which I examine the links between post-traumatic stress disorder, life writing and autobiographical narratives in many forms, examining the neural and psychological mechanics of recovery through writing and story-telling. At the same time I am implementing a multi-stakeholder international project funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the uses of Expressive Writing to support psychological recovery in a number of conflict and post-conflict contexts. This project is being implemented for the FCO by the Stabilisation and Recovery Network and has so far been piloted in Kirkuk, Iraq and delivered as train-the-trainer programmes in Baghdad and shortly in Lebanon. Melanie Jordan - [email protected] University of Nottingham

Dr Mel Jordan has a wealth of mental health research expertise, with publications and studies in the areas of mental health care in prisons, medical sociology, mental health research ethics, mental health forensics, mental health research and PPI involvement, the mental health and well-being of staff in secure settings (e.g. hospitals, prisons, the police), and mental health effects within health humanities (e.g. the wellbeing ramifications of undertaking the sport capoeira). Dr Mel Jordan recently published a book re. mental health uncertainty and inevitability via Palgrave Macmillan. Dr Mel Jordan has recently begun work with the University of Nottingham’s Beacon re. modern slavery and has a new body of research starting re. the mental health care requirements of those currently leaving slavery. Dr Mel Jordan currently supervises multiple doctoral students and RAs in this broad field of mental health.

Carol Kan - [email protected] Kings College London Dr Carol Kan is an academic psychiatrist with an interest in eating disorders, diabetes and obesity. She recently completed her PhD on the genetic overlap between type 2 diabetes and depression funded by Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation. The work has led her being awarded the Best Trainee Award from the Royal Society of Medicine (UK). She has advanced statistical knowledges in genetic epidemiology and skills in complex, large data handling/ analysis. Carol is currently a NIHR academic clinical lecturer and has an active interest in predictive modelling and experimental medicine in eating disorders.

Rob Keers - [email protected] Queen Mary University of London

My research aims to understand the role of genes, the environment and their interplay in the development and treatment of psychopathology. I take an interdisciplinary approach to this question and use a wide range of methodologies, from genome-wide genetics in case-control and twin studies to intensive longitudinal designs in high-risk cohorts. I was awarded an MRC Fellowship in 2013 in which I developed a novel genome-wide approach to gene-environment interaction and recently received a Wellcome Trust seed award to develop this method further. I have also begun collaborating with several experimental psychology groups to try to understand the mechanisms underlying genetic sensitivity to the environment, and ultimately risk and resilience in psychiatric disorders. I am currently developing a new cross-disciplinary research programme that aims to combine the power of large genome-wide association studies with the precision of small-scale experimental psychology approaches to understand gene-environment interplay in mental health.

Eilis Kennedy - [email protected] The Tavistock Centre, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Eilis Kennedy is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Director of Research at the Tavistock Clinic, London. She is also an Honorary Reader in the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London. Her clinical and research interests focus on prevention and intervention in Mental Health across the age range, from pregnancy to adulthood. She is currently involved in research funded by NIHR looking at developing personalised interventions for children with conduct problems using a stratified medicine approach and an RCT evaluating a brief video- feedback intervention to improve outcomes for children in foster care. She has published widely on the evidence-base for treatments in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and is joint Editor in Chief of the Journal Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Nichola Khan - [email protected] University of Brighton

I am a social anthropologist and chartered psychologist based at the University of Brighton (UoB). For the past decade my research has focussed on violence and conflict in Karachi in Pakistan; Afghan transnational refugee migration to Pakistan and the UK; and the human and mental health effects of war, forced displacement and conflict—particularly in cities. I am interested in anthropologists’ contributions to the ‘psy-ences’ (psychiatry, psychology) and understandings of political and mental ‘disorder’. My book ‘Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights’ (2017, University Toronto Press) engages interdisciplinary critiques of global mental health, cultural psychiatry, big pharma and psychotherapy. The UoB is known for its interdisciplinary ethos, and critical applied research in medical, health and social sciences. The Community University Partnership Programme is recognised internationally for creating knowledge exchanges and sustainable partnerships that benefit local communities, universities, and practitioners. I am currently also expanding my mental health research to cities in Asia.

Tiwalola Kolapo - [email protected] Middlesex University

I was a Substance Misuse Joint Commissioning Manger for ten years before focusing on MH/LD services. I am currently researching the opportunities and challenges for commissioning cultural competent Health and Social care services at doctorate level at the School of Health and Education. I have also just been invited to spend an academic year at the Disparities Unit Massachusetts (Harvard University). It is an opportunity that will further allow me to gain a better understanding of research tools, disparities and cultural competence and how the related knowledge translation can assist in the provision of meaningful services for vulnerable groups (BME’S Older people, addiction sufferers, LGBT groups and the disabled). A particular focus will be on the use of cultural competence to design services and assessment tools for MH Services.

Miriam Koschate-Reis - [email protected] University of Exeter

I am a Lecturer in Social and Organisational Psychology with research expertise in social identity processes, working at the interface of psychology and technology. I am currently working with colleagues in clinical psychology and computer science to better understand identities related to mental health such as the link between developing a mother identity and post-natal depression or the effects of therapy on individuals’ sense of self as an addict. I have received EPSRC funding for my interdisciplinary work with engineers, computer scientists and cognitive psychologists (EPSRC Being There: Humans and Robots in Public Spaces) and am currently a Co-I on an EPSRC platform grant with colleagues from software engineering.

Daniel Leightley - [email protected] Kings College London

Daniel Leightley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biomedical and Health Informatics at the King’s Centre for Military Health Research. He holds a PhD in Computing which included big data analysis and use of machine learning for diagnoses of musculoskeletal conditions. His research is motivated towards enabling the development of practical, low-cost, highly versatile tools for use in the healthcare sector (web apps, mobile apps and cloud-based algorithms). Overall research focus is on the military and families. Current research focuses on identifying adolescent mental health from video recordings using computing algorithms. Previous work includes the development of a smartphone app to change attitudes and behaviours towards binge drinking. Future studies include: data linkage of Electronic Healthcare Records and use of machine learning to detect PTSD. Yuan Li - [email protected] University of East Anglia

I am a researcher in psychophysics and colour imaging. I currently conduct a research using visual psychophysical experiments to measure the air pollution impact on people’s subjective well being directly. The traditional method using survey can provide a full SWB status of people. However, to investigate the impact from one factor, researchers have to collect rich information about subjects to remove other factor influence. The visual psychophysical method provides the direct measurements of a visual stimulus working on people’s perception. SWB belongs to people’s perception domain. With colour imaging technique, air quality images can be simulated using air pollution and weather/climate data. Thus, air pollution impact on SWB can be measured. This visual psychophysical method can be used in other perception related area. I have 6 years experience on measuring colour perceptions for Unilever, Samsun and NERC projects.

Tracey Loughran - [email protected] University of Essex

I am a twentieth-century historian with especial interests in the history of war and trauma, and late twentieth-century understandings of gender and mental health. I held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2007-8 to research ‘shell-shock’, and I currently hold a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award on ‘Body, Self and Family: Women’s Psychological, Emotional and Bodily Health in Britain, 1960-1990’. I am a member of the AHRC’s Peer Review Council and I am Deputy Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Humanities at Essex University. I am keen to develop cross-disciplinary research networks and initiatives on mental health, a priority area for the University and my own future research. I have extensive experience of cross-disciplinary working, having co-edited volumes on infertility in history (Palgrave, 2017) and emotions and research (Emerald, forthcoming, 2018) which feature contributions from historians, sociologists, social psychologists, demographers, psychotherapists, literary scholars, and medical researchers.

Anna Macintyre - [email protected] University of Strathclyde

I hold an MA (Hons) in Psychology, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, and a Masters in Public Health. I previously worked in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services before deciding to pursue a career in Public Health. My research interests focus on the social and economic determinants of mental health and inequalities, particularly for children and adolescents. Methodologically, I have experience of both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including analysis of the Growing Up in Scotland longitudinal cohort study. I previously worked with the Journal of Public Mental Health where I co-edited a special issue on ‘Childhood, parenting, families and young people’. In 2016 I was part of a team funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to complete a systematic literature review of interventions for adolescent health. I am Project Coordinator for the EU Horizon 2020 funded (2016-2019) ‘Citizenship, Recovery and Inclusive Society Partnership’ on mental health and social inclusion www.crisppartnership.eu

Isabelle Mareschal - [email protected] Queen Mary University of London

My research expertise concerns human visual perception. I combine behavioural (e.g. recording people’s responses to visual images shown on computers) and physiological (e.g. eye tracking- recording what people look at in visual images or videos) methods to examine how sensory input influences decision making. I have been applying these methods to look at how we make social judgments about other people, focusing on nonverbal communication (for example measuring how people make eye contact, or how they react to facial expressions). Recently, I have become more interested in applying these tools in mental health (for example, using eye tracking to infer characteristics about a person’s state of mental health). Hilary Marland - [email protected] University of Warwick

I work in the medical humanities, with special emphasis on the history of psychiatry/mental health provision. Currently I am co-PI (with Dr Catherine Cox, UCD) on a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award ‘Prisoners, Medical Care, and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000’. My research strand focuses on the impact of prison systems on the mental health of prisoners and the care and management of mentally ill inmates across the prison estate. This also involves a good deal of public engagement, including a theatre piece, photographic exhibition and two participatory projects working with prisoners: https://histprisonhealth.com/ In terms of future plans, I am keen to return to earlier research on motherhood and mental illness, and to lead an interdisciplinary research team in a cross cultural study of maternity and mental breakdown post 1900, entailing case studies across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia.

Sally Marlow - [email protected] Kings College London

I am a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, where I have been seconded to the Dean’s office for the past two years to work on a strategic mental health project. I am also a BBC Broadcaster with several mental health documentaries under my belt. I have recently been commissioned to develop and present a four part series for BBC Radio 4 on adolescent mental health, and I have just started the process of planning that series and researching possible contributions and contributors. I will bring perspectives from both of these activities to this networking event.

Rose McCabe - [email protected] University of Exeter

Mental health services research – psychosis, dementia, depression. Communication, shared decision making, patient experience and outcome. Intervention development and evaluation.

Pam Miller - [email protected] NSPCC

The NSPCC believes there is a significant opportunity to link the learning from social science about the kinds of social support that children need in order to create practical insight that can be translated to real change for children. We are interested in collaborating on innovative research projects that help us with achieving our goal of increasing the evidence base around ‘what works’. Our skills, knowledge and expertise are built upon our work which includes: • Face-to-face services in 29 service centres • Helplines including Childline • Our Speak Out Stay Safe programme in every primary school in UK • Successful national and local campaigning • Evaluations of our services including feasibility testing for RCTs • Promoted dissemination As collaborators, we’ve been the delivery arm for interventions; organised stakeholder events and consultations with young people; and assisted with recruitment for research from our large network of service users, staff and volunteers. Ai Milojevic - [email protected] London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

My research interest is impact of environmental change on health, cognition and mental well -being. Most of my current and previous work use epidemiological approach using Electric Health Records (such as mortality, hospital admissions, GP records, other specific registries) with linkage of environmental data. Specific topics include: air pollution impacts on CVD and cognition/ behaviour development; Urban Heat Island impacts on heat/cold-related mortality/morbidity in relation to possibility of adaptation to climate change; health impacts of flooding or other extreme weather events; mold/dampness (due to weather, building characteristics and over-crowding) and health. Regarding Mental health, I am investigating mental health impacts of recent major flooding in England using routine database including prescription data (Milojevic et al 2017 JECH http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-208899). I am also very interested in geospatial methodological research and other mixed methods.

Daniel Morley - [email protected] University of Manchester

I am the network co-ordinator for the EPSRC plus funded NewMind network for mental health technologies (delivered in association with NIHR MindTech HTC). NewMind explores the potential for technology to transform care for individuals with mental health conditions (focussing on four broad clinical - Serious Mental Illness, Mood and Affective Disorders, Dementia, and Developmental Disorders – and four cross cutting EPS research challenge areas - Sensing Systems, Information Management, Data Analytics, and Human Centric Systems). The 350+ member strong network brings together researchers, healthcare professionals, service users, mental health charities, and industry to co-develop scenarios for technology intervention and address underlying EPS research challenges. Outputs to date include a Research Roadmap, four proposal development workshops involving 145 participants, four Dragons’ Den panels resulting in funding of £150,000 across ten early stage feasibility studies from within the network. NewMind would look to either submit a proposal directly to the call and support network collaborations. Further info - http://www. newmindnetwork.org.uk.

Chris Murgatroyd - [email protected] Manchester Metropolitan University

My background is in molecular genetics and animal models. My research focuses on the role of the early life environment in epigenetic programming of genes underlying stress responsivity. I study various rodent models of early environmental exposures and translate findings to studies in humans that I also work on. Specifically, I am studying maternal depression, maternal care, early-life and prenatal and postnatal stress, early life diet, exercise, early exposure to neuropeptides and immune challenges, and transgenerational effects. Technically, I work on DNA methylation, chromatin and gene expression at gene- specific and genome-wide levels.

Simon Murphy - [email protected] Cardiff University

Director of DECIPHer, a UKCRC centre for public health research excellence with a focus on children and young people. Expertise in developing and evaluating complex interventions that address socio ecological influences on mental health and well being. Expertise in Transdisciplinary research and lead established academic/practice networks (Public Health Improvement Research Network and Schools Health Research Network) for co-production and knowledge translation. Virginia Murray - [email protected] Public Health England

Health resilience is strongly promoted throughout the UN Landmark agreement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015-2030 and under Priority 4: Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, the need to ‘Enhance recovery schemes to provide psychosocial support and mental health services for all people in need’ is called for. The framework’s perspective is to mainstream and integrate DRR within and across all sectors, and includes assessing mental health outcomes and to align implementation of approaches with other relevant health frameworks such as the 2005 International Health Regulations. Many disasters have resulted in mental health impacts which are rarely estimates and documented. The opportunity to attend a cross research council mental health networking to consider the development of a UK and more global mental health multisectoral research programme is critical to create better population mental health and wellbeing before, during and after a disaster would be invaluable.

Aiste Navickaite - [email protected] South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

I would be representing the London MH Chief Pharmacists network and will be feeding back to them. I am responsible for setting up and running IMP trials, commercial and non-commercial, in the Trust.

Rafaela Neiva- Ganga - [email protected] Liverpool John Moores

Rafaela Ganga is ICC Research Associate since September 2016; formerly Foundation of Science and Technology Research Fellow (2007-2011/2012-2013/2015) at the Institute of Sociology (University of Porto); and Lecturer at the Porto Higher Institute of Social Work (2011-2015) for the Gerontology Department. Since 2016, Crossing Boundaries: The value of museums in dementia care has been researching the impact of House of Memories on wellbeing and culture of care of dementia informal carers. Leading study, a mixed-method pre-post approach was design, combining quantitative profiling of participants’ care responsibilities and museum engagement, in addition standardized measures of subjective well-being and care burden were used. Data show positive outcomes concerning strategies to reduce the stigma associated with dementia; from a strategic perspective, social value data validates the personal outcomes of the programme relating to carers’ subjective wellbeing, dementia knowledge and awareness and person-centred care practices.

Francis Anthony O’Neill - [email protected] Queens University Belfast

I have a background in genetic epidemiology, particularly looking at psychosis. I’ve been involved in large- scale family and case-control sample collection. I’ve also been involved in twin analysis and longitudinal analysis of epidemiological cohorts. I also have an interest in the overlap between psychosis and creativity. Praveetha Patalay - [email protected] University of Liverpool

Population Mental Health and Child Development. I am a quantitative researcher interested in mental health through the lifecourse, including prevalence, development, antecedents, consequences and school-based interventions to promote better mental health. I primarily work with large longitudinal datasets (e.g. the British birth cohort studies, especially the Millennium Cohort Study) and my current projects include investigating the longitudinal determinants of mental health, the lifecourse consequences of mental illness and the structure and conceptualisation of mental illness.

Elvira Perez-Vallejos - [email protected] University of Nottingham

I am an Associate Professor for Digital Technology for Mental Health at the Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology at the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham. I am interested on the ethical challenges of introducing AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Deep Learning methods on the development of virtual human therapists. I have experience on RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation) and Data Ethics as well as on the Internet of Things (IoT), Data Privacy, Research Ethics, Human Factors, Creative Practices for Mutual Recovery, Experimental Psychology, Participatory research, Children and Young People, Older Adults and Co-Production. Research Expertise: Digital Tech for Mental Health, Virtual Human Therapists, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), Data ethics, Data Privacy, Research Ethics, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Creative Practices for Mutual Recovery, Children and Young People, Older Adults, Co-Production.

David Plans - [email protected] University of Surrey I build psychosocial interventions to tackle stress and anxiety. My research feeds into industrial work at BioBeats.com, which has won two Innovate UK awards and two EPSRC grants so far. The primary purpose of the tools I make is to quantify the psychobiology of stress by measuring autonomic nervous system data (heart rate variability) versus known measures of anxiety foci (rumination, job autonomy) in order to build digital coaching programmes to manage stress at its source.

Ian Radley - [email protected] Kromek CTO I am not sure from this call how relevant our experience is. Our interest is in the development of new imaging instrumentation for nuclear medicine applications in the diagnosis and prediction of a wide range of mental illness. This includes dementia, Parkinson’s, PTSD, depression and physical trauma. We made a new generation of semiconductor detectors that make such exams much more patient friendly, low dose and potentially ambulatory. If this matches into the group we love to discuss collaborations. Raghu Raghavan - [email protected] De Montfort University, Leicester

My background is in health psychology and nursing, with expertise in mental health and disability, cultural diversity, participatory research and co-production. My research is encapsulated by four overarching, but inter-related themes which address issues in mental health, disability and wellbeing: improving access to services/interventions, user involvement, practice and service development and inclusion. My current funded research programmes focusses on (1) conceptualisation of dementia in minority ethnic communities; (2) research participation from diverse ethnic communities (3) loneliness and social isolation in migrant communities; (4) detection and diagnosis of dementia in primary care for Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities; (5) Mental health resilience of internal migrants in India; and (6) Improving access to breast screening services for South Asian and African Caribbean population. I have published widely on mental health and disability, ethnicity and service improvement. I am currently editing a book on Mental Health, Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity: Exploring narratives for transformative services. I am coordinating the International Transcultural Mental Health Network (ITMHN) for research collaboration and knowledge exchange.

Dheeraj Rai - [email protected] University of Bristol

I am consultant senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Bristol. My research focuses on investigating the causes and consequences of mental disorders (especially autism, intellectual disability, depression, anxiety, psychosis) using large cohort/population based studies including the psychiatric morbidity surveys, ALSPAC, Stockholm Youth cohort, Stockholm public health cohort, World Health Surveys etc.

Angus Roberts - [email protected] KCL

Health informatics and applied computer science in mental health, including but not limited to applications of natural language processing and machine learning to mental health. Topics include text and data mining of medical records, public health information and search, mobile health data, social media analytics, knowledge management, medical terminologies and ontologies. I work at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and the NIHR BRC for mental health at South London and Maudsley NHSFT, where there is expertise in many areas of mental health, and a leading informatics framework. Datasets available at the BRC include de-identified data for 300k patients, including linked datasets and unstructured text; ~30k patient samples for DNA extraction with genotyping; multiple large cohorts (>50K) with samples and genotyping or sequencing available; an active mHealth theme for remote passive and active monitoring of patients using smartphones and wearable devices.

Emma Robinson - [email protected] University of Bristol

Rodent models for psychiatry research. Our main research focus has been the development of novel translational models for studying mood disorders. This work has specifically focussed on developing new behavioural tasks which quantify affective biases in non-human species. This work was initially supported by BBSRC and more recently MRC and has enabled us to validate these behavioural tasks and demonstrate both predictive and translational validity. We have also been able to derive novel, testable hypotheses about the role these biases may play in the development, perpetuation and treatment of major depressive disorder. Our behavioural work is complemented by state of the art technologies including pharmacological and optogenetic methods to study neural circuits and novel drug targets and more recently RNASeq analysis of molecular mechanisms. Dan Robotham - [email protected] The McPin Foundation

I am the Head of Research and Evaluation at McPin Foundation, a London-based charity specialising in mental health research. As an organisation, our aim is to transform mental health research by putting the lived experience of people affected by mental health problems at the heart of research methods and the research agenda. I have experience of conducting and managing mental health research across NHS, academic and charity settings. Previously, I was a researcher and coordinator of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) at the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. I am interested in how different schools of thought (for example, biomedical, social, psychological) can inform mental health research, which is why I am interested in attending the cross research council meeting.

Angelica Ronald - [email protected] Birkbeck, University of London

I am Professor of Psychology and Genetics in the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London. My research spans epidemiology, psychiatry, genetics and neuroscience. I direct an active lab group, the Genes Environment Lifespan laboratory. My research focuses on the genetic and environmental causes of developmental psychopathology in children and adolescents, with main projects centring on autism spectrum disorders, ADHD and psychotic experiences. I employ a range of methods and designs, include twin, family and cohort studies, statistical genetics and measurement development in my research.

Dana Rosenfeld - [email protected] Keele University

I am a medical sociologist and social gerontologist focussing on chronic illness and disability, ageing and the life course, gender/sexuality, and self/identity. I am particularly interested in how physical and mental distress are experienced and managed across the life course, with a particular emphasis on later life. I have published widely on lesbian and gay ageing and on the lived experience of illness and disability. My current research centres on ageing with HIV. I was Principal Investigator on the 2011-2013 HIV and Later Life (HALL) project, funded by the MRC/ESCR, and am currently exploring HIV and long-term care and HIV and end-of life care. I am a Reader in Sociology, and Director of the Keele Centre for Ageing Research, at Keele University; serve on the editorial boards of Social Theory and Health and the Journal of Aging Studies; and am a Scientific Advisor at the Tuke Institute.

Katharine Sadler - [email protected] NatCen Social Research

I am currently co-ordinating the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Survey, in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics and YouthInMind (commissioned by NHS Digital with funding from the Department of Health). The survey will be providing estimates of the prevalence of mental disorders among 2-19 year olds in England. It will also provide information about wider health, lifestyles, service use and sociodemographic factors to help determine risk and protective factors for mental health. Kristin Schmidt - [email protected] MQ: Transforming Mental Health

Kristin Schmidt joined MQ: Transforming mental health through research as Portfolio Manager in 2016. Her research at the University of Oxford, Radboud University Nijmegen, and University College London included studies on the effects of neurochemical changes on biases of learning, memory and emotional information processing that have particular relevance for the development and remission of psychiatric symptoms across depressive and anxiety disorders, and psychosis. She also has experience in clinical and healthcare settings. At MQ, Kristin’s primary responsibilities lie with the development and management of the Children and Young People’s research programme.

M. C. Schraefel - [email protected] University of Southampton

I run the WellthLab for Human-Systems Interactive Technologies for Health and Wellbeing. I do research in pain in the workplace and research on how diet/movement/gut microbiota influence stress/ mental health and wellbeing and recovery. Am particularly interested in what the unique properties of interactive technologies can be to have benefits at scale to #makeNormalBetter http://youtube.com/ begin2dig for a few examples

Matthias Schwannauer - [email protected] Edinburgh University

I am a clinical psychologist and Director of our Research Center for Applied Developmental Psychology (CADP). I have led on a number of clinical trials concerning the development and evaluation of psychological interventions for individuals with major mental health problems (CSO & NIHR); I am further lead investigator on two longitudinal studies examining risk and resilience in first episode psychosis and young adults with at risk mental states, emphasizing contextual, social and developmental factors in relation to health and well being related outcomes and help seeking (CSO & MRC). More recently I am involved in two projects developing mHealth applications (NIHR) for assessment, monitoring and supporting mental health in young people, both with diagnosed conditions and at risk mental states. I collaborate with colleagues at the Scottish Documentary Institute at the Edinburgh College of Art to engage young people with lived experience of mental health to produce films and accessible materials for an anti-stigma intervention.

Gavin Siriwardena - [email protected] British Trust for Ornithology

I am an ecologist specializing on birds and their relationships with habitats and ecosystem services. Recent work has focused on urban ecology (defined broadly across types of human habitation), and has touched on relationships between birds (as a component of “green infrastructure”) and human well-being. Future work could include quantifying patterns in bird abundance at different spatial scales (from gardens to towns to the national picture) as relevant to health and well-being, to advise development and the management of built-up areas. The BTO holds national-scale data sets to support such analyses. Approaches to management of parks and gardens to maximize interactions between positively-perceived wildlife and people, based on bird ecology and behaviour, could also be valuable. Finally, the BTO is a leader in citizen science for environmental data collection, and the role of participation in these schemes, of education and of engagement for mental health may be worthy of study. Daniel Smith - [email protected] Glasgow University

I am an academic psychiatrist with interests in the genetic epidemiology of mood disorders and the interface between physical and mental health disorders. I am also the research lead for determinants of health and health inequalities within the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow.

Ewen Speed - [email protected] University of Essex

I’m a medical sociologist with published research track-record in critical mental health. I have worked in inter-disciplinary contexts, with different disciplinary knowledges (clinical psychology, political science and social policy) to develop critical and novel insights into mental health.

Olivia Swift - [email protected] Royal Holloway, University of London

I am Impact Manager at Royal Holloway where we’re developing a number of interdisciplinary mental- health projects. I also manage our community research hub, which includes working with local mental health related charities, some of which we’ll bring into bids. In addition, I am a leading maritime researcher (anthropologist) with an established reputation for research relating to mental health, social isolation and suicide at sea, with a number of existing and emerging projects in this area involving RH and other UK and overseas colleagues. My PhD was ESRC funded.

Jerry Tew - [email protected] Birmingham University

Growing out of my social work practice experience, I have a passionate interest in developing a broader pyscho-social and relationally based understanding of mental health – with an emphasis on prevention and strategies for promoting people’s recovery, empowerment and wellbeing. Much of my research has been interdisciplinary involving the intersections between social work, social policy and other fields such as health, education, social theory and the creative arts.

Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova - [email protected] University of Exeter

I am internationally recognised expert in applications of dynamical systems theory to problems in mathematical neuroscience and (neuro)endocrinology. My current research revolves around novel applications of mathematics to enable the development of quantitative methods for healthcare and healthcare technologies. The focus is on projects that could make a difference to experimental scientists and clinicians, and potentially society through the applications of mathematics for personalised prediction and decision in prevention, diagnosis or treatment of health related conditions. My interest in applications to mental health is evidenced by our recent work proposing quantitative biomarkers for schizophrenia based on an interactive movement coordination task and virtual partner interaction. This work has attracted the attention of two local NHS trusts: Devon Partnership and Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trusts, with whom I am currently applying for funding to translate our methodology to early detection of psychosis. Carla Turner - [email protected] RSK ADAS Limited, Cheshire

Dr Carla Turner leads social research projects within ADAS and has a background in several policy environments. ADAS, established for over 75 years has unique experience spanning the environmental, agricultural and rural sectors. Using experienced specialist consultants, ADAS delivers specific, strategic policy advice, as well as applied and strategic R&D. Carla’s research interests include understanding the behaviour and wellbeing of farmers and the broader rural community. She has been involved in projects for Defra, Natural England and large land owners which endeavour to better understand the attitudes, perceptions and behaviour of farmers. This has included understanding: • Relationships between farm tenants and landlords. • Motivations for farmers to take up more environmentally positive practices. • Perceptions of landscapes as part of a longitudinal study. • Policy and Brexit scenarios.

Wojtek Tusz - [email protected] London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

I am the Director of the Digital Anthropology Lab, a research centre focused on understanding the impact of current and future technologies on the way people live and interact.

Jenny Ure - [email protected] Cluster2Cluster.org

Recurring issues in the design and implementation of eHealth, eBusiness and eScience projects at scale both nationally and internationally, with associated book and journal publications. Use of patient and user data (qualitative and quantitative) to pilot and inform the design and implementation of telehealth and eHealth services at scale. Cokmbine training in psychology and social science with experience of big data applications

Patricia Vargas - [email protected] Heriot-Watt University

I am the Founding Director of the Robotics Laboratory and Associate Professor/Reader in Computer Science and Robotics at the School of Mathematical and Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK). I am also an executive member of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. I worked at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex (England, UK) for 3 years. My current research interests focus mostly on Rehabilitation Robotics and Human- Robot Interaction. I am particularly interested in computational models (neuro-robotics applications) of Parkinson disease and stroke patients rehabilitation facilitated by robots. I strongly believe that mental health issues would benefit enormously from a cross-research council approach. Therefore, I would really appreciate if I could attend this event. Malcolm von Schantz - [email protected] University of Surrey

I am a biologist with an interest in sleep and circadian rhythms in humans, their biological correlates, and their associations with physical and mental health outcomes. Much of my work is focused on an interdisciplinary collaboration around the Baependi Heart Study in Brazil, a family-based cohort study with a broad range of datasets, including molecular/genetic, physiological, and biochemical data, anatomical MRI, sleep and chronobiology, and measures of physical and mental health and well-being. I currently supervise PhD projects on anxiety, depression, cognitive function, and insomnia in the Baependi cohort.

Fintan Walsh - [email protected] Birkbeck University of London

My recent research has focused on emotion, intimacy and ideas of the therapeutic in theatre and performance, and I have written a book exploring some of this territory (Theatre & Therapy, 2013). I also have related interests in gender, sexuality and queer studies, and supervise PhD students in all these areas. I’m interested in developing a research project around contemporary theatre and performance and expressions and understandings of mental health.

Colum Walsh - [email protected] Ulster University

As Associate Director for the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute at Ulster I have been instrumental in helping to start the Mental Health Initiative at the University which will bear fruit in the launching (Nov16th) of our interdisciplinary Institute of Mental Health Science bringing together colleagues from multiple faculties and disciplines across the University’s four campuses, together with some new staff. The BMSRI itself has consistently been ranked among the top three biomedical sciences submissions in REF and the RAE and consists of >100FTE, covering many specialisms. A geneticist myself by training, I work on epigenetics and currently lead a joint ESRC/BBSRC grant looking at the effect of a folic acid randomised control trial on cognitive outcomes and gene methylation in a longitudinal cohort of children. Additionally I have a number of other interdisciplinary projects with partners from psychology, sports science and computing in the area of mental health.

Anita Weatherby - [email protected] NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Charlotte Wendelboe-Nelson - [email protected] Heriot Watt University

My research revolves around the developing concept of the Exposome: The exposome provides a holistic view of human health and disease and includes exposures from our diets, our lifestyles, and our behaviours. I am particularly interested in green space (GS) exposure and co-exposures such as light, sound, physical activity, social interaction, and air pollution. More than 80% of the British population live in urban areas. Urbanisation is associated with increased levels of mental illness, including anxiety and depression. Access to GS has a positive effect on health and wellbeing, but the underlying reasons for this association are not well understood. My research sets out to understand the link between GS and mental health and how to use this link to improve mental health at population level.

Deborah Werbner - [email protected] Ogenblik Ltd

Our company, Ogenblik Ltd., is a social enterprise devoted to designing and developing commercially sustainable solutions to mental health and wellbeing challenges through the creative use of digital technology. OliTool, our first product in development, is aimed at aiding individuals to manage their anxiety, stress, worry and related symptomatic behaviours. Thanks to a Nominet Trust Social Tech Seed 2016 award, OliTool was developed and trialled at Exeter University in Spring 2016 on a small cohort of students and staff experiencing worry and anxiety. The study results were very positive, with some statistically significant outcomes, providing proof of principle that OliTool is an effective tool to manage and modify challenging behaviours. We have also worked closely with various departments at UCL, including the Department of Clinical Health Psychology and the Centre for Behaviour Change. Our aim is to pursue further research and trialling on a cross disciplinary and participatory design platform.

Ross White - [email protected] University of Liverpool

I am the Research Director of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme at University of Liverpool. I have research expertise in running randomised controlled trials and process evaluations of psychological interventions for complex and persisting mental health difficulties – chiefly psychosis. I have expertise in acceptance-based interventions such as Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and my research has focused on the role that these interventions can play in promoting emotional regulation across a range of psychological and somatic symptoms. I am also involved in international collaborations aimed at evaluating the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of evaluating psychological interventions for refugees and asylum seekers in the EU – I am leading a UK recruitment site. In addition to employing clinical trial methodology, this includes the use of qualitative methods to assist with the linguistic/cultural adaptation of psychological interventions and standardised assessment measures for use with asylum seekers and refugees.

Syed Zaidi - [email protected] University of Leeds

My research expertise is in the area of wearable technology and internet-of-things (IoT). In past, I have led a project where we investigated use of IoT and Device-to-Device communication to identify and mitigate stress and anxiety. This interdisciplinary project was carried out with colleagues from social science background. We developed signal processing method and wearable device for stress detection and tested it on 15 subjects. This brief excursion yielded more questions than answers. I am keen to explore what colleagues from other disciplines are doing in this area and how we can engineer technology and data driven solutions which are user-centric by design. Hannah Zeilig - [email protected] University of the Arts London

Hannah is a senior research fellow at the University of the Arts, London (UAL) and also a visiting research fellow at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Hannah’s research interests include the ways in which the arts are used for people living with a dementia in the community and in care homes, ways of talking about dementia and representations of age and ageing. In her work, she combines the theoretical with the practical incorporating insights from the arts, the humanities and the social and medical sciences. Above all, she is interested in collaborating with people with a dementia and finding ways to understand and talk about the condition.

Evelina Akimova - [email protected] University of Oxford

Currently, I am a second-year DPhil student at the Sociology department of the University of Oxford. I am focusing on the mental health disparities and how they affect unemployment experiences. In particular, I am looking at the genetic predispositions of mental disorders as a conceptualisation of mental states and whether they are associated with unemployment spells throw-out life course.

Jennifer Allen - [email protected] University College London

I am a Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist whose work focuses emotional and behavioural disorders in children and environmental factors (parenting, teacher-child interaction, stressful or traumatic experiences including domestic violence). My research focuses on how these environmental factors relate to child individual differences (temperament, cognitive ability); and how findings in this area can be translated into more effective intervention and prevention strategies. I have published 26 articles and book chapters and have a Google Scholar h-index of 14. I have managed several randomized controlled trials of interventions for emotional and behavioural disorders in children, working in internationally renowned research treatment centres including the National Academy for Parenting Research, Kings College London, United Kingdom; Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, Australia; the Child Behaviour Research Clinic, University of New South Wales, Australia; and the Child Separation Anxiety Treatment Research Group at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Louis Allwood - [email protected] Centre for Mental Health

I represent Centre for Mental Health, field leaders in translational and action research. We frequently work with universities and service providers to expand the knowledge base for improving mental health services in both policy and practice. Elena Antonova - [email protected] Kings College London

Dr Elena Antonova is a Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Her main research interest is the neuroscience of mindfulness, particularly changes in the brain’s structure and function of long-term mindfulness practitioners with the application to the management and prevention of psychosis and schizophrenia. Her main research methodologies include (f)MRI, EEG, and psychophysiology, including pre- pulse inhibition and startle habituation. Elena has been actively involved with the Mind and Life Institute (https:// www.mindandlife.org/), an organization that aims to facilitate an inter-disciplinary research into the effects of contemplative practices.

Ricardo Araya - [email protected] Kings College London

I have almost 30 years experience doing global mental health research with publications in high impact journals, projects in a large number of Low-middle income countries and am Co-Director of Centre of Global Mental Health.

Dorothee Auer - [email protected] University of Nottingham

My current research interest is to develop imaging biomarkers in the field of Clinical Neurosciences by using advanced MRI techniques. The aims are (1) to understand the pathophysiology of diseases or complex symptoms across diseases, (2) to improve diagnostic accuracy, and (3) to predict and assess therapeutic interventions. Methods used are MR proton spectroscopy, diffusion tensor imaging, perfusion, relaxometry, high resolution carotid imaging and combined electrophysiological/functional MRI with special interst in brian connectivity analysis. The clinical applications are for prediction of risk of stroke, monitoring neurodegeneration, classification and response prediction in paediatric and adult brain cancer, and understanding the neural basis of pain and depression treatment. My past research between 1994 and 2004 focused on using MRI to characterise mental disorders, especially major depression and schizophrenia and CADASIL.

Joshua Balsters - [email protected] Royal Holloway University of London

My research is primarily focused on clinical neuroimaging. I use a combination of EEG, fMRI, and computational models of behavior to explore Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). My most recent work involves investigating a new brain-based mechanism (social prediction errors) in ASD capable of facilitating Theory of Mind processes. Robin Banerjee - [email protected] University of Sussex

I am a developmental psychologist with interests in the socio-cognitive and socio-emotional factors that play a role in child and adolescent mental health, particularly in the context of peer relationships. Research in my lab is intimately connected with policy and practice through collaborations with local children’s services, public health, national policymakers, Ofsted, both small and large charities, and mental health trusts. Ongoing funded projects include work concerning: the mental health of children in foster care; the value of vulnerable young people’s participation in creative arts; cutting-edge therapeutic interventions for young people at risk of severe and complex mental illness; and the social and emotional dimensions of children’s lives at school and in the wider community. As Deputy Head of School and steering group member for two interdisciplinary research centres. I am also overseeing and guiding substantial networking activities to shape and advance research agendas relating to mental health.

Josephine Bardi - [email protected] University of Nottingham

I am a 3rd year ESRC PhD student on the mental health and wellbeing pathway, and the founder of @ramhhe, the global social media campaign to Raise Awareness of Mental Health in Higher Education. My research expertise includes qualitative research methodologies into social and community psychiatry, systematic literature review, literature review, scoping review and health intervention impact assessment.My relevant experiences include mental health nursing, ethnographic research into maternal and child health in Nigeria for the UK Department for International Development (UK DFID) and PATHS2, ethnographic interviews on the meaning and understanding of mental health in Morocco, qualitative research consultancy for civic engagement activities at a UK university and action research into the understanding of mental health among higher education students. Other relevant experiences are public speaking during poster and oral presentations at national and international conferences and seminars, motivational speaking and lecturing.

Edward Barker - [email protected] Kings College London

I am a developmental psychologist with strong training in longitudinal analysis within a structural equation modelling framework. I am currently a Reader at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, and the director of the Developmental Psychopathology Group. I have primarily engaged in interdisciplinary research. For example, most recently, I have examined how stressful environments exacerbate underlying epigenetic vulnerabilities to affect children’s development. Studies from this project (funded by NICHD) have been published in numerous leading interdisciplinary journals, including Molecular Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Child Development and Development and Psychopathology. I am currently interested in examining neural correlates of adversity-related chronic, low-grade inflammation as a biomarker for child mental health problems.

Riza Batista-Navarro - [email protected] University of Manchester

Dr. Riza Batista-Navarro is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science of the University of Manchester. Her specialisation is in the development of natural language processing (NLP) techniques for text mining. She has been involved in a number of interdisciplinary projects: the BBSRC-funded Empathy project on text mining-supported enrichment of metabolic pathway models; the DARPA-funded Big Mechanism program, a partnership with the University of Chicago aimed at the automatic discovery of possible drug combinations for cancer; and the Jisc-funded Mining Biodiversity project, in which she collaborated with partners from Dalhousie University (Canada) and the Missouri Botanical Garden (US), and led the work on enhancing archives with text-mined semantic metadata. Recently she has ventured into social media mining and is currently supervising the research of MSc and PhD students in that area. Bryony Beresford - [email protected] University of York

Mental health and disability, illness and impairment particularly with respect to the following populations: people with autism, children and young people with long-term and life-limiting conditions, parents of children and young people with long-term and life-limiting conditions, people with hearing loss/impairment, mental health and the health and care workforce. My research expertise includes: applied social scientist with extensive experience of mixed-method studies; using observational and experimental study designs to evaluate and understand interventions to support self-management; ‘non- traditional’, third sector approaches to supporting mental well-being/preventing mental health difficulties; alternative models of service delivery; understanding work-related stressors and rewards in the context of service with high emotional demands; integration of health and social care, and service interfaces; methods expertise related to including those with communication and/or learning disabilities in research.

Josie Billington - [email protected] University of Liverpool

I am based at the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), University of Liverpool, collaborating with colleagues in Medicine and Psychology to investigate the benefits of literary reading for mental health. Working with external health partners (Royal Liverpool Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Mental Health Trust, National Personality Disorder Team) and third sector organizations (The Reader), we have published extensively on reading in relation to depression, dementia, chronic pain, in community, clinical and secure settings, and are currently engaged in studies relating to reading and self-harm/ autism. CRILS is integral to Mental Health in Context and Centre for Humanities, Social Sciences, Health, Medicine at Liverpool, and collaborating with colleagues in London, Manchester, Sheffield, Aarhus, Alberta. A CRILS edited volume, Reading and Mental Health (46 contributors internationally), combining perspectives of practitioners, service-users, academics, policy-makers and showcasing interdisciplinary research methodologies in this field, will be published by Palgrave in 2019.

Tahir Bockarie - [email protected] Future Cities Catapult

Over seven years’ experience working in mental health as practitioner and currently working under the Healthy Cities theme at Future Cities Catapult. Under the Healthy Cities theme, Future Cities Catapult is building knowledge, research and innovation in mental health, placemaking and ageing.

Cara Booker - [email protected] University of Essex

My background is in health behavior research with a focus on epidemiology, biostatistics and public health. I have used many diverse and large longitudinal datasets to quantitatively analyze both the antecedent and correlates of health in adults and adolescents. My major research focus is on risk and protective factors which promote resilience in health outcomes with the ultimate goal of reducing health disparities among adolescents. My current research focuses on health-related behaviors in adolescents and well-being. Specifically, I am interested in better understanding the role of family members and peers in promoting both positive or negative behaviors and well-being. Some of my research has explored this idea of shared environments and how the health of one individual affects those sharing the same home. Lucy Bowes - [email protected] University of Oxford

My research focuses on understanding risk and resilience in the context of exposure to peer violence and bullying worldwide. My research is interdisciplinary, integrating methods from experimental psychology, intervention science, and epidemiology with a view to identifying processes that promote resilience to bullying, with effects that may be seen at the population level. Current projects include the development of an immersive virtual reality tool in order to test the impact of bullying on psychological functioning under laboratory conditions.

Eleanor Bradley - [email protected] University of Worcester

I have spent 15 years conducting applied research within adult mental health environments, including inpatient care. My research has focussed on understanding the experiences of mental healthcare from the perspective of those in receipt of care and those delivering care. I am ultimately interested in understanding why and how people make choices within mental healthcare. I bring particular research expertise in qualitative methods, notably grounded theory. My relevant experience includes my training as a chartered health psychologist and my research which has applied health psychology principles to adult mental healthcare. I held a previous post within the NHS as an R&D lead, providing research training and support to clinicians and service users. I currently hold an academic post, responsible for strategic research leadership to colleagues, as well as training and supporting doctoral candidates. I have an ongoing role as Associate Director for R&D for an adult mental healthcare NHS Trust.

Natassia Brenman - [email protected] London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

I am a medical anthropology PhD student entering the third year of an Economic and Social Research Council funded award at LSHTM. My doctoral research explores access to mental healthcare through an ethnography of a consortium of voluntary sector psychotherapy centres in London. I have a special interest in im/migrant and refugee mental health and my research asks key questions around how best to approach and (re)conceptualise problems of access and inclusion for such groups. My first degree was in Psychology and my professional background is in the development and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial interventions for humanitarian and post conflict settings.

Stephen Briggs - [email protected] University of East London

I have a particular interest in adolescent/young adult mental health, suicidality and self-harm. I have been PI for a number of projects, including a current study of adolescent peer-influenced suicidal behaviour. Much of this work is qualitative, though I also use quantitative and mixed methods. I am interested in a range of theoretical approaches including psychosocial and psychoanalytic. I am also a practitioner, having extensive experience of working as a psychotherapist with young people and adults with mental health difficulties including 20+ years in the NHS in the Tavistock Clinic. Richard Brunner - [email protected] Glasgow University/What Works Scotland

I am a sociologist, currently working as research associate with the What Works Scotland research collaboration (funders: ESRC/Scottish Government). Operating in an interdisciplinary team, I conduct collaborative action research with cross-disciplinary public service workers. I also lead and co-supervise case studies of public service projects, exploring how these impact on marginalised citizens. I have qualitatively applied the innovative Capabilities Approach in several projects, including to explore what people were able to do and be after being in psychiatric hospital (2011-2015, Ph,D. Funding: ESRC). The CA enabled me to bridge social and medical models; have regard for user perspectives; and develop a framework for explanation of poor macro-level outcomes (Social Science & Medicine, Oct 2017, doi:10.1016/j. socscimed.2017.09.016). Previous experience includes three years as a patient advocate in a psychiatric hospital in an area of multiple deprivation; equality, diversity and policy work (third sector); disability/mental health/educational inclusion research (University of Strathclyde).

Denise Buchanan - [email protected] University College London

Doctoral student. I am just completing my PhD research which is investigating how adults with moderate to severe mental health problems engage with learning whilst attending a Further Education college. Having trained as both a nurse and a teacher, I currently teach a group of such students in conjunction with the local mental health unit, in this college. My results have revealed that the students can benefit greatly from their learning if they have the right amount of both academic and non academic support, and how a multi-disciplinary approach involving both health and education is essential in order to help move people successfully from the healthcare system into education, training or employment. I have already published an article which details my work in this field prior to beginning my PhD as this is an area that is underrepresented in educational research.

Michele Burman - [email protected] Glasgow University

A criminologist with long term research interests in the experiences of young women and girls drawn into the youth/adult criminal justice systems. This group are widely considered to have experienced high levels of trauma., for whom the ubiquity of past victimisation and psychological trauma are understood as contributing to the behaviours that draw them into criminal justice contact. Specific interests in the ways in which, as a result of close working with the profoundly traumatised, professionals and service providers may experience a particular process of traumatisation - vicarious traumatisation (VT). Interested to understand more fully how a process of VT may manifest in the personal and professional spheres of those working with the traumatised; and to understand how VT can impinge upon the efficacy of service provision and staff efforts to help those with whom they work. Brings an interdisciplinary perspective (psychology, sociology, criminology) and extensive research experience as P1 on collaborative projects. Avery Carter - [email protected] University of Edinburgh

My academic interests lie in medicine and health promotion from a global health perspective. I was recently awarded the opportunity to fulfil a childhood dream: serving with the Peace Corps for 27 months as an HIV/AIDS capacity building volunteer. Before pursuing this opportunity, however, I decided to first increase my knowledge within this field to successfully contribute to on-going research and the implementation of crucial strategies. It is after developing these skills that I hope to enter medicine. I recently completed my undergraduate degree in Honours Psychology at St. Francis Xavier University. My thesis was funded by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, allowing me to focus on the promotion of mindfulness sessions. While abnormal and clinical psychology presented an initial understanding of mental health and well-being, it was at the annual Canadian Psychological Convention in Toronto, Ontario that I became particularly interested in the Indigenous mental health seminars.

Sarah Cassidy - [email protected] University of Nottingham

I have extensive internationally renowned research experience and expertise in the areas of autism, mental health and suicidality. I am currently leading a research program funded by the ESRC, NIHR and Autistica exploring mental health and suicidality in autism. I have led an international priority setting exercise in association with the James Lind Alliance, funded by Autistica, to synthesise priorities for research policy and practice to reduce suicide risk in autism. I am leader of a network hub in association with Autistica, specialising in mental health and suicidality in autism at the University of Nottingham, the purpose of which is to facilitate collaboration between researchers and stakeholders.

Kit Chan - [email protected] University of Edinburgh

I am a Reader in Global Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) with a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches to tackling mental health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). I have: (i) co-led the Global Health Epidemiological Reference Group (GHERG) that conducts studies to improve estimates of conditions including dementia and schizophrenia in LMICs such as China and Africa (Lancet 2013:381:2016-23; JoGH 2012;2:2040); (ii) conducted “CHNRI”-studies to set priorities for health research investment at the national, regional and global level (e.g. global dementia reduction by 2025 published in Lancet Neurology, 2016;15:1285–94; health-related SDGs for Iran); and (iii) co-led health system and policy studies in LMICs using mixed-methods. I was also a Co-I in a documentary on interdisciplinary research (https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKXyc21Zf5I). This networking event will give me with a valuable opportunity to meet mental health experts from different disciplines to collaboratively explore new ways of thinking and approaching mental health in LMICs.

Tom Chan - [email protected] Surrey University

I qualified as a Registered Mental Nurse in 1970 and Registered General Nurse in 1978. Since 1970, I have worked in mental health services in the NHS as a practitioner and senior manager both in the hospital and community settings. I see learning as a life-long process which is reflected in my of post- registration and post-graduate qualifications (MSc and PhD). I retired from the NHS in 2007 and have worked as a Senior Research Fellow in St Georges, University of London and in University of Surrey. My Research Group primarily focuses on using routinely collected healthcare data in research, service evaluation and health surveillance projects. I use both quantitative and qualitative research methods in evaluating complex health interventions in primary care and in mental health services. Rachel Churchill - [email protected] University of York

I am a mental health researcher specializing in common mental disorders, with expertise in mental health epidemiology, evidence synthesis, evidence informed decision-making in policy and practice, and knowledge translation and mobilization. I lead the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Group and, related to this, have a particular interest in promoting health research literacy, empowering and enabling individuals to participate in decisions about their own mental health, well-being and care. In addition to my professional role, I have personal experience of trying to support and care for several family members who suffer from mental health problems. This has given me an in-depth understanding of the importance of considering the whole person, their experience, lifestyle and circumstances to promote good mental health and well-being, rather than focusing only of the provision of evidence informed treatments for mental health problems in isolation.

Stephan Collishaw - [email protected] Cardiff University

My research in the field of developmental psychopathology spans the remits of the MRC and the ESRC. It encompasses a range of risks, developmental outcomes, and research designs. With considerable expertise in life course epidemiology, my main interests include childhood neurodevelopmental problems, adolescent depression, understanding factors that promote resilience in high-risk groups, links between child and adult mental health, and in using cross-cohort designs to test time trends in mental health.

Claudia Cooper - [email protected] University College London

I am Principal Investigator on the £1.9M Alzheimer Society funded NIDUS (New Interventions for Dementia Study) Alzheimer’s Society programme, leading a centre of excellence for interventions to support people with dementia to live independently at home. I am currently funded as Principal Investigator on a Dunhill Medical Trust grant investigating ethnic inequalities in dementia care in the largest national study on this topic to date. I was a commissioner on the recent Lancet global commission on dementia prevention, care and treatment. I am co-applicant and stream 2 lead (PI-Gill Livingston) on the NIHR/ESRC-funded £3.5M MARQUE study. I have published 110 peer-reviewed journal papers; my H-index score is 33 (Scopus). I collaborate with researchers from ten UK Universities (including the Universities of Oxford, Reading, Exeter and Bradford; and Kings College London); and USA (Johns Hopkins and University of Michigan), Australian (University of Melbourne); Canadian (Dalhousie University) and Romanian (University of Bucharest) institutions. Sharon Cruise - [email protected] Queens University Belfast

I represent the Northern Ireland COhort for the Longitudinal study Of Ageing (NICOLA). NICOLA is an omnibus panel study with longitudinal follow-up of a stratified random sample of approximately 8500 men and women aged 50 years and over in Northern Ireland. The study was designed to be complementary to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) that has been in progress in the Republic of Ireland since 2009 in order to provide an ‘all-Ireland’ perspective of the social, behavioural, economic, and environmental aspects of ageing for those living on the island of Ireland. NICOLA has also been designed to complement the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) in order to provide potential for comparisons between the health of older adults in Northern Ireland and England. This places Northern Ireland in the network of existing longitudinal ageing studies such as TILDA, ELSA, and HAGIS (Scotland). NICOLA is collecting data on a range of socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors (e.g., finances, employment, retirement), as well as self-report measures on mental, physical, and cognitive health, help and helpers, health care utilisation, health behaviours, medication use, social connectedness, social participation. In particular, NICOLA is unique in its in-depth focus on nutrition and vision health, and also includes questions on the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’. It is also the intention to link the NICOLA study data to administrative data in the future. NICOLA therefore has great potential for in-depth and comparative research on a range of issues relating to mental health.

Andrea Danese - [email protected] Kings College London

I am a clinical academic and Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. My research expertise is in childhood trauma. I have undertaken biological and epidemiological research to understand why children experience trauma, why some children are more resilient than others to the effects of trauma, how trauma affects risk for psychological and medical disorders, and how best to support and treat children who have experienced trauma. I have been awarded grants from several funders including MRC and ESRC to undertake my research. I am a co-investigator of two long-term cohorts funded by MRC and ESRC, the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study and the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study. I am a member of the NSPCC Research Advisory Group, the DH/NIHR Steering Committee for a Strategy for Mental Health - Children & Young People Working Group, and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Scientific Advisory Panel.

Jayati Das-Munshi - [email protected] Kings College London

I have expertise in life course epidemiology, birth cohorts, cohort studies, research based on electronic health records, ethnicity and mental health and the mental and physical health interface. I am a senior research fellow (my current project investigates ethnic minority physical health inequalities in severe mental illness) and also a consultant psychiatrist. I am currently leading an exciting data linkage between UK census data and CRIS (Clinical Records Interactive Search- electronic health records from South London & Maudsley Trust (SLAM)). I’m interested in developing research projects examining the social determinants of mental disorders (onset, course and outcome). Happy to be contacted by social scientists and researchers wishing to collaborate. Max Davie - [email protected] Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust

I am a consultant paediatrician with specialist expertise in mental health. In my main clinical role, I run a developmental paediatric service for school age children in Lambeth, South London, working closely with local CAMHS services on ADHD, ASD and vulnerable children in the Borough. I am also the mental health officer for the RCPCH, in which capacity I am extensively involved in the policy work around children and young people’s mental health, including membership of the Future in Mind working group and the stakeholder group for CAMHS at NHS England. I have a firm grasp on the national policy context through my work with the RCPCH and actively participate in discussion and debate around research findings both within my team and with colleagues nationally. I am extensively involved in education, both medical and multi-professional, including a role as honorary senior lecturer in paediatrics at King’s College London.

Arianna Di Florio - [email protected] Cardiff University

I lead the bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis genetics program at the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics in Cardiff. The centre has collected the largest cohort of people with bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis in the world with genetic and detailed phenotype information for over 6000 participants.

Martina Di Simplicio - [email protected] Imperial College London

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College London's Centre for Psychiatry. Until recently I was a psychiatrist in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and cognitive neuroscientist, previously at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. My research interest is in understanding the cognitive mechanisms that underly psychopathology and that drive successful treatment of mental disorders, whether pharmacological or psychological. My focus is on young people and vulnerability to emotional disorders, with the aim of developing innovative preventative interventions, harnessing the opportunities offered by digital technology. For example, I investigate how future simulation (imagining future scenarios) can help regulating emotions in conditions such as bipolar disorder or self-harm. My work adopts an experimental medicine approach, and includes functional neuroimaging and behavioural cognitive science methodology, as well as early stage clinical treatment studies. My research has interdisciplinary collaborations with the fields of psychology, pharmacology, applied mathematics, psychophysiology, with digital technology industry and with the contribution of experts by experience.

Luke Dickens - [email protected] University College London

I am a Lecturer in Machine Learning and Data Science in the Dept. of Information Studies at UCL. My research expertise includes statistical inference techniques, probabilistic modelling, human behavioural modelling and machine learning for decision support. Before coming to UCL, I worked as a research associate at Imperial College London on a number of projects including my own EPSRC doctoral prize fellowship ‘Reinforcement learning for science’. I have also worked in a number of successful cross- disciplinary research collaborations including with social-scientists, developing linguistic models to detect shifts in social identity in written material; with medical scientists, investigating technologies for the artificial pancreas; with neuroscientists, investigating reinforcement learning models of human behaviour; and with bioengineers, exploring the use of vision technologies for localisation and navigation. I each of these collaborations my overarching research agenda has been the validation and use of machine learning models for science. In my work with social scientists, we are actively investigating how our models can support the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions, including addiction and depression. These and other research collaborations have led to publications international conferences and journals including: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Review of Medical Devices, the International Conference on Data Engineering, the International Conference on Machine Learning and the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Geoff Dickens - [email protected] Abertay University, UK

I am Professor of Mental Health Nursing with an extensive list of peer-reviewed research and review publications about mental health care, specifically in the inpatient environment. My students have completed PhDs related to violence risk assessment and management, self-regulation, and environmental enhancement to maximise the therapeutic potential of the hospital environment. My particular interest is in developing and operationalising what amount to complex interventions that can be implemented effectively and with fidelity, thus harnessing the potential for delivery by clinical staff.

Danai Dima - [email protected] City, University of London

• My early publications directly addressed the disconnection hypothesis in schizophrenia research. Using the hollow-mask illusion and the mismatch-negativity paradigm on fMRI, EEG and MEG data, results demonstrated that top-down processes were weakened and bottom-up were strengthened in schizophrenia. • Brain connectomics and genetics of Bipolar Disorder and resilience. Using the Stroop and emotional processing task I have shown that preserved fronto-basal ganglia coupling and increased connectivity between the ventral and dorsal PFC were associated with resilience to BD. In addition, the association of hyperconnectivity within the emotional processing network with resilience to BD suggests adaptive plasticity that allows for compensatory changes and encourages further investigation in early intervention studies. • In studies, I have shown that GWAS-supported individual risk-alleles for BD and the polygenic risk BD scores influence brain function and brain connectomics. Furthermore, this influence is located in the PFC. • ENIGMA-Lifespan. The ENIGMA-Lifespan group that I co-lead contributes to individual prediction and evalutation. We have brain scans from 11,000 healthy individuals at the time of scanning, spanning all life, from 2-92 years old.

Helen Dodd - [email protected] University of Reading

My research focuses on early risk factors for the development of anxiety disorders in children. I hold an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant, which funds a project that examines how children’s attention to emotional stimuli and ability to control their attention as pre-schoolers predicts anxiety over the transition to school. The aim of my work overall is to identify which children are at risk for anxiety and to understand the mechanisms of risk such that we can work with these children early in life to ensure the developmental trajectory is one of emotional wellbeing. I also have experience working on mental health in children with rare neurodevelopmental, genetic disorders and their families.

Craig Duncan - [email protected] University of Portsmouth

I am a quantitative health geographer with particular expertise in the application of multilevel modelling to examine local and regional variations in health outcomes, health behaviours and health service delivery. Previously, I have published work on spatial variations in psychiatric morbidity and compulsory detentions in hospital under the Mental Health Act. Currently, I am part of a multi-disciplinary team working on a two-year National Institute of Health Research funded project examining variations between service providers and local areas in the use and effectiveness of community treatment orders for patients who have been discharged from compulsory detention. The project uses data from the Mental Health Minimum Dataset, a mandatory administrative dataset, and I am experienced in accessing and analysing this large and complex sensitive data set within a secure setting. I have Approved Researcher status with the Office for National Statistics. Lucy Edmondson - [email protected] Mental Health Foundation

I recently joined the Mental Health Foundation as Projects & Research Funding Manager with a background in programme management and business development at a national charity. The Mental Health Foundation is a UK wide research charity. Our research interest lies in prevention of mental health problems across the life course with interest in transitions and pressure points with a focus on marginalised communities. We are also interested in the potential of digital mental health technology for improving mental health, reducing stress and promoting behaviour change. We have a long-standing history in user-led research, co-production and involvement of people with lived experience. In addition, we are experienced in knowledge exchange activities. For example, the Foundation hosts Mental Health Awareness week and regularly offers an active voice in the public and policy narrative related to public mental health.

Clarissa Edwards - [email protected] Kings College London

I am the Research Development Manager at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, supporting Institute colleagues and the wider mental health community at King’s in bringing together multi-disciplinary research applications and programmes. My own background is celluar and molecular neuroscience.

Iris Elliott - [email protected] Mental Health Foundation

I lead research and policy for the Mental Health Foundation across the UK, and all of the Foundation’s work in Northern Ireland. I co-ordinate the Foundation’s international projects: an Interreg NWE Innovation Fund digital mental health project ‘eMEN’, and Horizon2020 transatlantic knowledge exchange ‘Citizenship, Recovery, Inclusive Societies Partnership’ through which I am Yale secondee. My research career has included roles in the public and voluntary and community sectors within: services, statutory bodies, institutes, philanthropic organisations and academia both in the UK and Ireland. I have visiting roles at Queens University Belfast and University of Strathclyde. I have a cross-disciplinary background in: sociology (PhD), public cultures studies (MA), health promotion (MSc) and social work. My research interests include: human rights, equity, social movements, and trauma.

Rob Ellis - [email protected] Huddersfield University

I am a historian of mental health care in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as publishing peer reviewed work on these themes, my work was included as an impact case study in the latest REF assessment. This covered the details of the collaborative and co-produced work I have undertaken with a range of partners This has included mental health trusts, care providers and service user groups, as well as museums and galleries, artists and theatre practitioners. I have received funding from a range of source including Wellcome, JISC and I was the PI on the AHRC funded Heritage and Stigma Project. In all cases, the aim has been to make my historical understanding of the past relevant in and to the twenty first century. Sara Evans-Lacko - [email protected] London School of Economics and Political Science

I have a particular interest in the role of health services and social support in the prevention and treatment of mental illness. My research focuses on innovative methods to improve access to and quality of mental health care and the global comparisons of this. I am active in the field of global mental health, and in 2013, I was awarded a European Research Council grant for a project based in the UK and Brazil. It looks at the relative value of formal mental health services and informal social and familial support structures in promoting fruitful engagement with care. I am also a Scientific Co-ordinator of the EMERALD (Emerging Mental health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries) programme which aims to strengthen mental health systems in Low- and Middle-Income countries by enhancing local capacities and skills to plan, implement, evaluate and sustain system improvements.

Matthew Flinders - [email protected] University of Sheffield

I am a political scientist and have been studying anti-political sentiment and patterns of political disengagement for some years. More recently, I have developed a research interest in the politics of mental health, in general, and the mental health of politicians - and their staff and families, in particular. I currently hold a professorial fellowship in the House of Commons and would like to use this position in order to explore the formal and informal emotional support mechanisms for MPs. This could then adopt a comparative perspective, adopt new methodologies and potentially even help understand broader policy- making processes. I am working with a small inter-disciplinary team and we have recently established the Political Psychology Research Group within the Political Studies Association of the UK and are working to establish a cognate research group within the British Psychological Society. I cannot attend this networking event but if anyone is interested in exploring the possibiilty of building a research project on the mental health and wellbeing of politicians into any future collaboration then please do feel free to get in touch.

Eirini Flouri - [email protected] University College London

I received my PhD in psychology in 2000 from the University of Exeter, was a postdoctoral research fellow at Oxford in 2000-2004 and joined UCL Institute of Education in 2005. I am mainly interested in understanding the causes of children’s emotional and behavioural problems. Complementing my previous work on the role of family (parenting, parental mental illness and poverty) and the broader context (neighbourhood and school), my current research starts to explore the role of biological factors, such as inflammation, in the development of emotional and behavioural problems in childhood.

Tamsin Ford - [email protected] University of Exeter

Tamsin Ford is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry where she leads a multidisciplinary Child Mental Health Group. The focus of their work extends from the study of patterns of service use and access, the accurate identification of psychopathology and the generation or synthesis of evidence for interventions directly with families or indirectly through practitioners working with children. There is a strong interest on the role of schools in relation to children’s mental health. The research methods range from secondary analysis of large epidemiological datasets, mixed qualitative and quantitative observational studies, economic evaluation, systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials. The team has strong links with colleagues working in psychology, education, health economics, public health, epidemiology and biomedical sciences. http://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?web_id=Tamsin_ Ford#XQSh1UM9Z5uLfitR.99 Elaine Fox - [email protected] University of Oxford

Currently working at the interface of cognitive psychology and molecular genetics in relation to mental health and resilience. My expertise is in the cognitive processes involved in maintaining and causing anxiety (especially pathological worry) and depression (especially postpartum depression) and more recently we have been extending our work to eating disorders (Binge Eating Disorder). My current work is funded by an ERC Advanced Investigator award, which has helped us to extend our research to adolescent mental health and wellbeing. We are currently running a longitudinal study with a cohort of 500 adolescents over a period of 5 years looking at cognitive, subjective, and genetic associates of emotional vulnerability and resilience in a healthy sample. A particular focus of my current work is to attempt to integrate cognitive models and approaches with molecular genetic research, which I believe will enhance and potentially allow a step change for both fields in terms of elucidating our understanding of adolescent as well as adult mental health and resilience.

Paul Frijters - [email protected] London School of Economics and Political Science

Paul Frijters completed his Masters in Econometrics at the University of Groningen, including a seven- month stay in Durban, South Africa before completing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam into wellbeing in Russia during the transition. He is Professorial Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Programme and Project Director of the World Wellbeing Panel. Professor Frijters specializes in applied micro-econometrics, including labor, happiness, and health economics, though he has also worked on pure theoretical topics in macro and micro fields. His main area of interest is in analyzing how socio-economic variables affect the human life experience. Professor Frijters is a prominent research economist and has published over 70 papers in fields including unemployment policy, discrimination and economic development. He regularly commentates on economic issues in newspapers and on television, including articles in the New York Times and on the BBC. Before joining the LSE, he was the Research Director of the Rumici Project, an international project into the migration from the countryside to the cities in China and Indonesia, sponsored by ministries, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and many others, tracking 20,000 individuals for many years. In 2009 he was voted Australia’s best young economist under 40 by the Australian Economic Society.

Daniela Fuhr - [email protected] London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

My research addresses the treatment gap for common mental disorders, and focuses on the design and evaluation of mental health programmes for disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. I am particularly interested in low intensity interventions and task-sharing in low and middle-income countries. One important aspect of my work is to strengthen mental health systems in resource constrained settings, and to seek ways to overcome health system challenges to improve mental health outcomes. I am currently working on provision of mental health care for Syrian refugees in countries bordering Syria and in Europe, and on improving access to care in women with perinatal depression in India and Pakistan. Paolo Fusar-Poli - [email protected] Kings College London

Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Psychiatry at the Outreach and Support in South-London (OASIS) South London and The Maudsley NHS Trust, one of the oldest and largest clinical services for the detection and prevention of mental disorders in Europe and worldwide. Reader in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health at the Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. Author of >270 publications in PubMed journals, with h-index of 60. Invited speaker and/or chairman in several national and international scientific conferences. Psychopharmacology module leader for the MSc Early Interventions in Psychosis. Group Head, “EPIC”, Early Psychosis: Intervention and Clinical-prediction. Member of the Editorial Board and reviewer of several scientific journals. Principal investigator or co-investigator of national and international grants focused on the prevention of mental disorders. Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, which indexes some of the world’s most influential minds as determined by a citation analysis (ranking in the top 1%).

Heather Gage - [email protected] University of Surrey

Professor Heather Gage is Director of the Surrey Health Economics Centre (SHEC). Researchers in SHEC undertake collaborative interdisciplinary research in health economics, health technology assessment and service delivery that is funded by research councils, NIHR, European Commission, charity and industry. Many collaborations extend internationally. Most of the research focuses on practical and policy-related topics, with an emphasis on evaluative studies and outcomes measurement, using an extensive range of analytically and empirically rigorous methodologies. Mental health issues are well represented in the portfolio of multidisciplinary research projects that is conducted within SHEC.

Elena Garralda - [email protected] Imperial College London

Research experience in the interface between physical and mental health in children and young people. This has included investigation of 1) Somatization disorders and functional symptoms: a) the frequency and nature of somatization disorders; psychiatric co-morbidity, environmental influences and outcome; b) frequency of functional symptoms in community adolescents, mental health associations, impairment and medical help seeking; c) description of the work of paediatric liaison child mental health services. 2) Chronic pediatric disorders: frequency and nature of psychiatric co-morbidity, influence of illness stages on child and family psychosocial adjustment and mental health. 3) Critical illness; mental health sequelae on children and families, the contribution of inflammatory mechanisms, and development and evaluation of preventative interventions. 4) Mental health and primary care use: documentation of the influence of child and mental health problems on primary health care consultations and development and evaluation of an intervention for adolescent depression in primary care.

Darya Gaysina- [email protected] University of Sussex

I am a Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of Sussex, and Director of the EDGE Lab (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/edgelab/). My research focuses on the role of environmental and genetic factors, and their interplay, in common mental disorders. Specifically, I investigate mechanisms of lifelong vulnerability and resilience to early adversity. Moreover, I explore the interrelation between common mental disorders and physical and cognitive health. In my research, I combine approaches of molecular genetics, life course epidemiology, and developmental psychopathology. In collaboration with my colleagues from the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, I have applied genetically informative approaches to prospective longitudinal birth cohort data in order to get insights into determinants and consequences of common mental disorders across the life course. I am an author of 55 peer-reviewed research papers and 5 book chapters, and a co-editor of two books. My ORCID profile: http://orcid. org/0000-0002-9283-5667 Ben Gibbons - [email protected] Second Step

I’m a former AHRC public policy manager, now working for mental health charity Second Step (a large provider of mental health, housing and support services in the South West).Second Step employs 220+ staff and delivers over £10m of front line services annually for the NHS, Local Authorities and other funders. These include community mental health, housing management and several innovative pilot projects such as the Big Lottery funded Golden Key. We have existing partnerships with the universities of Bristol, Southampton, West of England, South Wales and are committed to developing more. I have 15 years experience of developing cross-disciplinary, collaborative research projects which have an impact on society, public policy, and public services. E.g. Religion & Society, the Essex Autonomy Project, and the Parliaments, Rule of Law and Human Rights research project. I also work as an impact and communications consultant on research council funded projects via www.gravitascommunications.co.uk

Simon Gilbody - [email protected] University of York

I am Professor of Mental Health Services Research at the University of York and clinician-population scientist by background. I have assembled a vibrant group of 35-40 researchers at the University of York and we work across disciplines (epidemiology, statistics, behaviour change, anthropology, qualitative methods and health economics). We take a population perspective to mental health and focus on what works and what is cost effective. We study health inequalities and the prevention of mental disorders. I am a trialist by background and have led some of the largest UK trials of primary care based interventions for people with depression (the most common mental disorder). I am also interested in the use of behaviour change and lifestyle modification to reduce health inequalities for people with more severe mental illness (I have delivered the first UK trials of smoking cessation for this group). Our work crosses several funding councils and I am keen to form collaborative links with other units in the UK and oversees.

Susan Goodlad - [email protected] Coventry University

As Research Development Executive my role includes strategic research development through high quality research opportunities for the Centre of Advances in Behavioural Science, Faculty of Health and Life Science , Coventry University. I have extensive experience of providing strategic and operational research support in Higher Education specifically and in the not for profit sector generally. I have an academic background in Psychology and a professional background in policy research. My work involves initiating cross Faculty and cross University work, building collaborative teams and developing strategic funding plans in support of the institutional ‘Excellence with Impact’ research strategy. I am particularly interested in this networking event to support the development of external and international collaborations and stakeholder relationships, and linking with others interested in developing a research idea around themes of refugee/migrants, gender based violence, mental health and community-based therapeutic interventions involving somatic practice/movement.

Matthew Green - [email protected] Special2Us

Special2Us is working with both Reading University & Bournemouth University on two different projects, one exclusively Alzheimer’s/dementia related, the other relating to cognition in general. Special2Us is supported by Alzheimer’s Society who are allowing our software to be presented across the country at their SURP projects Kathryn Greenwood - [email protected] Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT) and School of Psychology, University of Sussex

I am an NHS Clinical Psychologist/Senior Lecturer, with £2,873,000 in current research funding (CI/co-I) and 47 peer-reviewed papers. My research interests include early intervention for mental health stigma in children; help-seeking, engagement/uptake and implementation of mental health interventions; the role of internal (neuro-cognitive) and external (relationships, services, societal) factors on recovery/function in psychosis. I am director of Sussex Psychosis Research interest Group (www.sussex.ac.uk/spriglab); a partnership between SPFT, UoS, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and our Service User Research Forum. We focus on developing pioneering interventions, working with the public, clinical and academic community, and ensuring impact through translation into practice, facilitated through my NHS role as vice-chair, psychosis Clinical Academic Group. I lead the UoS Mental Health Research Centre working party which has developmental, educational, social, genetic, digital, mental health, therapy and training expertise and research links with digital industries, Global Mental Health initiatives and multiple UK research partners.

Andrew Gumley - [email protected] Glasgow University

Andrew Gumley is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Glasgow. He is a leading international researcher investigating psychological interventions for people with psychosis. Andrew developed and evaluated the first ever randomised controlled trial of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the prevention of relapse in people with Schizophrenia. Since then he has designed and lead randomised controlled trials of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in people experiencing a range of mental health difficulties including young people at risk of developing psychosis, and individuals who have psychotic experiences which have not fully responded to Clozapine. He has been at the forefront of developing and piloting third wave interventions for psychosis including Compassion Focussed Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Andrew has also undertaken extensive research into the the importance of fear of recurrence as a block to recovery in people with psychosis, and the importance of attachment as a basis for resilience and recovery. These research programmes have informed the design of complex interventions including Digital Technologies and the development of systems based interventions to enhance engagement and recovery.

Chris Hales - [email protected] University of Newcastle

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in astrophysics. I have no formal mental health qualifications though I have a strong interest in psychology. I am interested in contributing my skills in statistics and data analysis to support some form of mental health research collaboration. Please contact me if you think I could be useful to your collaboration.

Jane Hamlett - [email protected] Royal Holloway, University of London

I am a social and cultural historian of modern Britain, with a special interest in material culture. I recently led the ESRC funded ‘At Home in the Institution’ project which examined the material worlds of Victorian lunatic asylums. I have published on this and the clothing of asylum patients. Building on my interest in material histories and mental health, I am working on a pilot project ‘Reuniting Photographs and Communities’ which explores the significance of archives and material culture from former hospitals and asylums for present-day communities. The project aims to develop a public history of these institutions, sharing knowledge between archivists, historians and members of the community with a stake in these histories (including former staff, former patients and relatives or members of the local community). I am working collaboratively with Surrrey History Centre on the pilot study, which is focused on a collection of photographs of Netherne Hospital. Donncha Hanna - [email protected] Queens University Belfast

As the research coordinator for clinical psychology at QUB, I have expertise in the applied and theoretical research field of mental health. I have over 10 years’ experience leading, supervising and collaborating on the design and analysis of a range of mental health projects. I take pride in collaborating with both clinicians and academics across different disciplines. I have played a central role in the design and analysis aspects of multiple research projects with national and international collaborators. I have also initiated and lead research projects with colleagues in different parts on the world as part of my programme of research on mental health. My primary research interest is mental health including the measurement and modelling of psychological trauma, anxiety disorders, psychosis and related constructs. I have been teaching research methods and analysis for ten years and have expertise in a range of quantitative research methodologies.

Francesca Happe - [email protected] Kings College London

Expertise in social cognition and its relationship to mental health, including research on autism and comorbid internalizing and externalizing difficulties across the lifespan. Current research studies include: i) mental health and wellbeing in women with autism +/- diagnosis (ESRC funded); ii) social anxiety in relation to social understanding (NIHR); iii) neurodiversity and mental health (part MQ funded); iv) ageing, mental health and wellbeing in relation to social cognition. Methods include novel cognitive tasks, qualitative approaches, twin modelling, and neuroimaging.

Gordon Harold - [email protected] University of Sussex

My primary research interests focus on (1) examining the role of family and wider social factors (e.g. inter-parental conflict, negative parenting, parent mental health, family stress and transition, economic stress and disadvantage) on child and adolescent mental health and related outcomes (e.g. depression, anxiety, conduct problems, academic attainment), (2) examining the interplay between genetic factors, pre-natal factors, post-natal rearing and wider socialisation experiences and children’s mental health outcomes, (3) utilising advanced statistical methods to examine longitudinal data/cohort longitudinal resources, and (4) promoting research-led practice/policy recommendations focusing on family influences on child and adolescent mental health.

Tasdik Hasan - [email protected] International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh

Dr. Tasdik has recently been selected for the prestigious New Voices in Global Health award by the World Health Summit 2017, Berlin, Germany for his work on mental health services among climate- victims in a cyclone affected area of coastal Bangladesh. With his intense passion for mental health research he has achieved the best thesis award (Vice-Chancellor’s Gold medal) for his master’s dissertation on mental health of medical students in Bangladesh. He has worked as a researcher in reputed International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) since 2013. He is currently an MSc candidate of King’s College London & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and looking forward to learn theoretical basis of mental health epidemiology to implement large scale interventions in developing country context. Stephani Hatch - [email protected] Kings College London

With a background in sociology and psychiatric epidemiology, I lead an interdisciplinary research programme and public engagement activities focused on urban mental health; health inequalities and discrimination; young adult mental health. I am the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Tackling Inequalities and Discrimination Experiences in Health Services (TIDES) study funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator’s Award. TIDES is utilising innovative mixed methods to develop an intervention framework to address the role of discrimination by healthcare practitioners in generating and perpetuating health inequalities. I am a co-PI for the South East London Community Health (SELCoH) study, the largest UK study of urban mental health and service use that provides much-needed data on ethnic minority and migrant populations. Additionally, I lead the Health Inequalities Research Network (HERON), a public engagement network (currently funded by the Wellcome Trust) that promotes collaborative community approaches to knowledge dissemination and youth outreach.

Cassie Hazell - [email protected] University of Sussex

I completed my PhD this year – part funded by the ESRC. My thesis aimed to evaluate ways of increasing access to psychological therapies for people with psychosis. As part of the project, I was the PI on a pilot randomized controlled trial of a guided self-help CBT intervention for distressing voices. I am now a research fellow and trial manager on a project evaluating the effectiveness of a self-help writing therapy for carers looking after someone with psychosis. I am also a co-investigator on research projects exploring the experience of hearing voices in the context of Borderline Personality Disorder; and developing and evaluating a mental health awareness training package for emergency first responders (i.e. police and paramedics). I have several first author publications, a first author book due to be published in January 2018, and have presented at both national and international conferences.

Jenny Head - [email protected] University College London

I am PI of the ESRC funded renEWL consortium on Determinants of Extended Working lives; UK lead in the IDEAR network on determinants of healthy ageing; and a senior investigator on the Whitehall II study. My research expertise is in inequalities in mental health, determinants of healthy ageing, work and health, cross-national research and statistical methodology for longitudinal studies.

Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith - [email protected] University of Nottingham

I am a Research Fellow based at The Institute of Mental Health at The University of Nottingham (http:// www.institutemh.org.uk/index.php). The predominance of my work is based around gender based violence and mental health conditions. I have worked extensively on programmes involving older women as survivors of violence and the health care needs of older people. I was lead researcher on a large RCT NIHR PGfAR (EQUIP study http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/equip/ aboutthestudy/) exploring care planning and shared decisions between community mental health teams and service users. I have worked collaboratively with colleagues in Malaysia, Thailand and more recently in South Africa exploring adolescent mental health in relation to domestic violence and abuse. Caitlin Hitchcock - [email protected] University of Cambridge

My research seeks to develop innovative treatment options that are drawn from basic science, and to translate this research into clinical practice. I complete experimental work to further elucidate the role of cognitive processes, particularly processing of emotional information, in predicting and maintaining emotional disturbance, and use these findings to further develop novel clinical techniques which seek to ameliorate maladaptive cognitive processes, and thereby reduce symptoms of mood and trauma-related disorders.

Aileen Ho - [email protected] Reading University/Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

With a background in experimental psychology and clinical psychology, I am interested in applying psychological approaches (broadly defined) to mental health, mental wellbeing and mental illness in the real world. I have experience working on cross-disciplinary projects with academics, patients, families, NHS, charitable and community organisations, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and industry partners including pharmaceutical companies. Some projects I am involved in include: Designing a connected health platform; Creating digital mental health apps; Understanding and supporting family carers of patients with chronic disease and working with stigma, guilt and the burden of stress; Understanding and measuring quality of life; Designing psychoeducational and self-management resources for care partners of patients; Ecopsychology and everyday mindfulness exercises to increase wellbeing and flourishing; Promoting community engagement and wellbeing through action research; Co-creating health and well-being intervention opportunities in deprived neighbourhoods.

Graeme Hodgson - [email protected] Anglia Ruskin University

As Partnership Development Manager in the Research and Innovation Development Office for Anglia Ruskin University’s Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, I support our academics in finding income generation through partnerships with private enterprise, charities and government bodies as well as Research Councils. In addition to grant bids, such partnerships could involve consultancy work, contract research, writing of systematic reviews or even CPD. ARU houses PARI (Positive Ageing Research Institute) as well as VFI (Veterans and Families Institute), with a focus on PTSD and transition to civilian life. I am also interested in partnership opportunities relating to mental health in Education and implications for Preventive Healthcare, and Social Care for all age groups and social strata. My background is in Education, notably Teacher Development and CPD, but I represent the interests of all our researchers in Health, Social Care and Education here at ARU. Qualifications: M.A. in Applied Linguistics, BA (Hons.) in Psychology, MBA in Business Management, Prince2 Project Management Practitioner.

Juanita Hoe - [email protected] City, University of London

I am an experienced clinical trials manager and have participated in and coordinated large, grant funded research projects (NIHR, ESRC). I currently work as a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing employed at City, University of London and am responsible for developing and managing research projects and delivering research teaching and supervision to undergraduate and postgraduate students. My research experience has focused on studies that promote improved care and quality of life for older people with mental illness – particularly those with dementia, and family carers. This has included the development of psychosocial interventions to reduce crises in dementia, improve coping strategies for family carers, and facilitating early diagnosis in dementia. Clare Holdsworth - [email protected] Keele University

I have extensive research experience on youth transitions, particularly in relationship to family. In recent years I have carried out research on various aspects of young people’s lives including youth volunteering, alcohol consumption and transition to university (funded by various funders including ESRC). I am now engaged in research on youth wellbeing, including a new PhD project on autotelic practices for youth wellbeing. I would be interested in working with other researchers on programmers focusing on youth mental health and wellbeing. My research is both quantitative and qualitative and I have particular expertise in the analysis of longitudinal data.

Georgina Hosang - [email protected] Queen Mary University of London

Dr Hosang’s research is concerned with the impact of life stress (life events and childhood maltreatment) on the development and course of physical (e.g., cardiovascular disease) and mood disorders (i.e., depression and bipolar disorder) as well as the comorbidity between the two. Her most cited work examines the interaction between genetic factors and life stress in mood disorders, illustrating the interdisciplinary nature of her work. She uses different methodological approaches including self-report questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and experience sampling methods administered via smartphone applications or apps to deepen our understanding of the life stress-health link. Dr Hosang also incorporates different study designs in her work including longitudinal, case-control and cross-sectional approaches. She draws on her diverse experience to conduct interdisciplinary research which spans psychology, psychiatry, digital technology and biology (genetics).

Kelly Howard - [email protected] Academy of Medical Sciences

As a Grants Officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS), my role is to administer the GCRF Networking Grants scheme. This programme offers £25,000 to international researchers looking to hold networking events, and form collaborations with UK researchers. We consider applications from a range of subject areas, including mental health, and applications should be interdisciplinary to best address the challenge area of focus. We ask applicants to focus on a UN Sustainable Development Goal, and as many of these SDGs are underpinned by mental health, I would like to develop my understanding of this research area. The GCRF Networking Grants scheme is aimed at early stage collaborations, and therefore has some parallels with the RCUK cross-disciplinary mental health network plus call. This is the first round of this scheme and I am keen to network with interested parties, to understand the preparation required to apply for a cross- discipline award. Siobhan Hugh-Jones - [email protected] University of Leeds

My research focuses on adolescent mental health, particularly the development of school based, preventative and early intervention approaches. I lead an MRC study developing a user-designed, digitally supported information prescription intervention for early intervention and resilience building.

Nusrat Husain - [email protected] University of Manchester

I am Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and Consultant Psychiatrist at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. I lead a large team working on Global Mental Health and Cultural Psychiatry. We focus on translational research in this area and our major achievement has been the strengthening of partnership with research institutes in Pakistan, Kenya, Canada and India. These partnerships have provided us a very unique platform in building evidence base in translational research not only in low and middle income countries but apply the learning in the UK and other high income countries to meet the needs of ethnic minority communities. We are committed to addressing the huge mental health treatment gap and ethnic disparities. We are addressing areas of high public health importance such as self-harm, mood disorders including maternal depression and psychosis which disproportionately affect low and middle-income countries and certain British ethnic minorities.

Stephen Husbands - [email protected] University of Bath

A medicinal chemist primarily involved in the development of ligands that target the CNS. My main research interests relate to neuropsychological diseases and targets, in particular the development of low abuse liability analgesics and new treatment agents for drug abuse, depression and anxiety. Recent research has focussed on the development and therapeutic potential of ‘selectively promiscuous’ ligands and has been driven by the understanding that CNS disorders are rarely simple, requiring complex solutions. Currently funded by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse and with compounds in preclinical development through a research agreement and licence deal with US pharma. My research is highly collaborative and I work with structural biologists, pharmacologists (determining signalling pathways through to non- human primate studies), radiochemists (for the development of PET radiotracers) and clinicians. Recent publications have appeared in PNAS, Nature, J Med Chem and J Psychopharmacol.

Paul Illingworth - [email protected] De Montfort University, Leicester

Over 40 years of experience in mental Health initially as a nurse. Roles have been clinical, managerial/ leadership, academic and research. Currently Head of School Allied Health Sciences, leading interdisciplinary staff and facilitating cross School/discipline research and teaching. Chair of Founding Committee establishing Leicester Centre for Mental Health (in collaboration with Leicester Partnership Trust and University of Leicester), centre incorporate pan Leicestershire and Rutland health, social and voluntary agencies. Focus is to undertake research to be incorporated into practice and education, with particular emphasis on ethnicity and inclusivity.

Darja Irdam - [email protected] NatCen Social Research

I specialize in public health and healthcare research. I am mostly interested in socio-economic determinants of health behavior, gender and health mental health and coping mechanisms with stress. Rowena Jacobs - [email protected] University of York

Rowena Jacobs is Professor of Health Economics in the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. Rowena’s research interests include health policy reforms, incentives and performance measurement in mental health services. Her expertise lie in the linkage and use of large datasets and the application of econometric approaches to address questions pertaining to mental health policy. She leads an NIHR project on the relationship between primary care quality and outcomes for people with serious mental illness. She also leads DH-funded and Wellcome Trust funded research on contracting, currencies and payment for mental health services, as a well as a Health Foundation project on cost, quality and efficiency of mental health providers.

Sumeet Jai - [email protected] University of Edinburgh

I am a lecturer in social work at the University of Edinburgh and convene the Edinburgh Global Mental Health network. I have degrees in international development, social work and cultural psychiatry. My main areas of expertise are on the interface between cultural and mental health, global mental health, community engagement and co-production, and use of ethnographic methods in mental health research. Current research examines the nature of local ‘innovations’ in global mental health; development of contextually grounded approaches to ‘recovery’ in north India; and the relationships between mental health, marginality and social exclusion. I am conducting long-term ethnographic research on community mental health services and policies in Uttar Pradesh state, India. I co-edited a special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry (53:6, 2016) on ‘Ethnographic perspectives on Global Mental Health’ and am co-Editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Socio-cultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health. I am Associate Editor, Anthropology and Medicine journal.

Lisa Jones - [email protected] University of Worcester

I am a research psychologist with 24 years of experience researching the aetiology of severe mental illness in multidisciplinary research groups. I currently lead the Mood Disorders Research Group at the University of Worcester. Our broad focus is on understanding the complex multifactorial causes and triggers of bipolar disorder and related disorders, including postpartum psychosis. With my colleagues at Cardiff University I lead the Bipolar Disorder Research Network (bdrn.org). We have recruited a large sample of people who have severe mood disorder from throughout the UK (N = 7000+) who continue to participate in research. All BDRN participants contribute detailed interview and case-note data about their psychiatric history, a blood sample for genetic analyses and questionnaire data measuring various psychosocial factors, such as adverse life events and personality traits. In collaboration with colleagues at the University of Oxford we are also measuring mood changes prospectively using online mood monitoring technology.

Ian Jones - [email protected] Cardiff University

I am Professor of Psychiatry and the director of the National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH. info) – a Health and Care Research Wales Centre (BRC) that brings together academics from various backgrounds, clinicians and people with lived experience to advance mental health research in Wales. NCMH has recruited over 10,000 people into a research cohort with biological, social and psychological data and who are consented for routine data linkage and further contact. I also lead the Bipolar Disorder Research Network (BDRN.org) that has recruited over 7000 participants for research. My personal interests are in mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, and the mental health of pregnancy and childbirth (perinatal psychiatry). Rajendra Kadel - [email protected] London School of Economics and Political Science

I am a health economist working in the areas of workplace mental health for over four years at LSE. My research interests are economic evaluations, economic modellings, systematic reviews, health technology assessment and health systems and policy in the areas of mental health.

Eddie Kane - Edward.kane@nottingham .ac.uk University of Nottingham

I lead the Centre for Health and Justice at the institute of Mental Health and wider collaboration of 4 Universities, the Skills Council for the Health and Justice sectors and two technology companies. Our focus is multi-disciplinary research at the health and justice interface. We currently have grant income of £5 million including, HEFCE, College of Policing, NHS E, Home Office and Welsh Government. We publish widely on interventions for those experiencing mental health problems and who are suspected of an offence. The research examined current prevention, desistance and therapeutic interventions and the effectiveness across a range of domains including mental health outcomes, whole service system impacts and gaps, economic impact. Overall our work aims to look at developing and implementing evidence-based interventions that support individuals and service providers across the whole life course and all aspects interaction making use of existing and novel technology.

Judi Kidger - [email protected] University of Bristol

I am a Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, and have spent the past 14 years investigating risk factors and potential interventions to improve mental health, particularly within the school context. As an MRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow, I conducted studies examining school-related risk factors for depression, and prevalence of and risk factors for self-harm and suicidal thoughts in adolescence. I am currently the Principal Investigator of an NIHR funded school-based cluster randomised controlled trial (the WISE study), which is an evaluation of an intervention to improve secondary school teachers’ mental health and their skills in supporting student mental health. I am a member of the DMEC for the Myriad trial – an investigation of the impact of Mindfulness training on adolescent mental health outcomes - and a member of the Expert Reference Group for the Department of Health’s roll out of Mental Health First Aid training to all English secondary schools.

Florence Kinnafick - [email protected] Loughborough University

Chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society, Lecturer in Psychology in School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University and a member of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine. Research seeks to understand the social contextual and environmental determinants of physical activity behaviour (long-term persistence, drop out and lapses), and how engagement in physical activity can lead to positive mental health outcomes. I am working with Mind, the mental health charity, leading the evaluation of the Sport England and Lottery funded ‘Get Set to Go’ national physical activity intervention for mental health recovery (funded PhD student on this project is investigating peer support in community physical activity programmes for mental health service users). I am also collaborating with St Andrews Healthcare, the secure mental health service to promote physical activity in this unique environment (PhD student investigating psychologically informed physical activity intervention components in this setting). Daniel Kopasker - [email protected] University of Aberdeen

The Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen has a range of expertise in the valuation of health and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions designed to influence health behaviours. Daniel is an early career researcher within the unit with expertise in applied econometrics using panel data. His research has investigated how employment relationships become a socioeconomic determinant of mental health over the lifecourse. This includes the identification of groups at-risk of psychological distress, the manifestation of mental health issues as physical health issues through changes in health behaviours, and the influence of the welfare state. Subsequent research aims to evaluate strategies to promote the mental health of employees, such that indirect productivity losses associated with psychological distress are minimised.

Nelya Koteyko - [email protected] Queen Mary University of London

My research is situated between the fields of linguistics and digital sociology. I examine how different social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook) as well as Apps (such as Emojii) are used by individuals with depression for self-presentation, self-care practices, and social interaction, as well as how professional and policy actors understand and conceptualise the role of these digital tools in social support provision. Both social media platforms and some peer-driven Apps such as Emojii enable users not only to produce personal narratives, visualise and track different emotional states but also share the resulting content with others. These processes can be reflected in and examined through the use of language and other meaning making resources and, as shown by existing applied linguistics research, can be particularly illuminating for revealing the lived experiences of depression and the practices of establishing supportive relationships.

Artemis Koukounari - [email protected] Liverpool School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

I am interested in advancing research on the role of infections in mental illness and well being in low and middle income (LIMC) countries. For instance, I am particularly interested to establish interdisciplinary collaborations aiming for optimal measurement of quality of life, wellbeing and mental health as morbidity impact indicators for neglected tropical diseases. I am also highly interested in life course epidemiology problems and secondary data analysis of LMIC population studies (such as relationship between Chlamydia infection and depression, psychiatric/psychological aspects of HIV -aiming to improving prospects for prevention). I have a PhD in Statistical Epidemiology from the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. Before I moved to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to devote my research entirely in the tropics, I worked for four years as a Lecturer in Statistics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience Biostatistics Department at King’s College London.

Veena Kumari - [email protected] Sovereign Health Group, California, USA ; from 2nd January 2018 Brunel University

I will be joining Brunel University London as Professor of Psychology and Head of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience from 2nd Jan 2018. My research interests include the neurobiological effects and predictors of outcome following pharmacological and psychological treatments in schizophrenia, neurobiology of violence and addiction in mental illness, clinical psychopharmacology (particularly the effects of nicotine, psychostimulants, antipsychotics and anxiolytics), and personality and brain functioning. I have published 250 papers in reputed psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience journals and have also served as an editor or editorial board member for many journals including Personality & Individual Differences, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Schizophrenia Research & Treatment, Current Psychopharmacology, World Journal of Psychiatry and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Sabine Landau - [email protected] Kings College London

I am a Professor of Biostatistics engaged in collaborative research in a range of mental health conditions/treatments. I apply advanced statistical methods, as well as conducting methods research. I have experience and expertise relevant to the identified cross-cutting themes: Effective interventions: I serve as senior statistician on cross-disciplinary trial teams developing and evaluating mental health intervention. My methodological research addresses causal questions regarding treatment efficacy and treatment mechanisms (mediation, moderation and effect modification by treatment process variables). Data, lifestyle and behaviour risk factors: Causal inference techniques can help to utilise observational data to assess modifiable risk factors (propensity scoring), or to provide internally and externally valid estimates of treatment effectiveness (recent methodological project). Inequalities: I have developed individual participant meta-moderation analysis to study whether dissemination of parenting programmes could reduce social inequalities (PHR funded). Capacity building: I have trained researchers in advanced methodologies, as well as developed junior statisticians.

Peter Liddle - [email protected] University of Nottingham

I am a psychiatrist with a background in physics and maths. I investigate the psychological and neural mechanisms of symptoms in diverse mental disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar mood disorder, major depression, ADHD and personality disorder) using techniques of clinical assessment, cognitive assessment, and brain imaging, including PET, structural MRI, fMRI, EEG and MEG.

Liz Lightbody - [email protected] University of Central Lancashire

My background is in Nursing and my expertise is in applied health research, service improvement and implementation with a focus on psychological interventions to promote psychological adjustment, psychosocial care, and workforce development. I am the co-director on a NIHR Global Health Research Group. The Group is focusing on addressing priorities in stroke care in

India by conducting an innovative and co-designed study of stroke care initiated in acute hospital settings. I am also the project co-ordinator for the Accelerating Delivery of Psychological Therapies after Stroke (ADOPTS) project, which is one of the projects within the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North West Coast. I have experience of managing programmes of research, randomised controlled trials, longitudinal cohort studies, feasibility studies, before and after studies, and implementation research. These studies have involved the utilisation of a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. Hannah MacPherson - [email protected] Royal Holloway, University of London/University of Brighton

Human Geographer and Social researcher whose work sits at the intersection of arts, humanities, health and medicine. Principal Investigator on an AHRC funded study ‘Building Resilience through Collaborative Community Arts Practice’ alongside young people with mental health complexity. Author of ‘Inclusive Arts Practice and Research’ (Routledge 2015) I research and practice arts and walking interventions for resilience and well-being. I am an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. Recent relevant publications include work on ‘Building resilience through group visual arts activities’ (Journal of Social Work), the development of crucial ‘Listening Spaces’ through the practice of visual arts (Environment and Planning D) and an interest in innovative walking methods and the well being of people with visual impairments (Journal or Rural Studies, Landscape Research). I am a member of the Arts Health Early Career Network, a research associate of the University of Brighton, Resilience Centre ad co-founder of Apron.

Nick Manning - [email protected] Kings College London

45 years of sociological research in the mental health field. Founder and Director, Nottingham University Institute of Mental Health, 2007-2015. Currently Professor of Sociology, Dept Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College, and PI for the ESRC/Newton project on “Mental Health, Migration and Mega-city”, 2016-2018.

Sofia Manolesou - [email protected] London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist with a specialist interest in adolescent mental health including early onset psychosis, eating disorders, self harm and suicide. I have been involved in services research including transition from adolescent to adult services. I have completed a MSc in public health and my most recent research is on the association between severe mental illness and physical health including sociodemographic factors, health risk factors, chronic illnesses and use of healthcare. I am currently undertaking a research project which is looking at workplace related suicide and strategies for suicide prevention in the workplace.

Lisa Marzano - [email protected] Middlesex University

I am an Associate Professor, specialising in suicide and self-harm research, and digital mental health. I edit the Digital Mental Health section of Evidence-Based Mental Health, and collaborate closely with a team of academics and clinicians, with expertise in Psychology, Psychiatry, Computer Science, Design, and Big Data Visual Analytics. As a team we have previously obtained funding to develop and test a prototype that allows monitoring of individual symptoms and experiences of poor mental health (specifically self-harming thoughts and behaviour) using smartphones and wearable biosensors (some of this work was published in Marzano et al. (2015) The application of ‘mHealth’ to mental health: opportunities and challenges. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2, 942-948 – and in other publications). We are keen to develop this work further and are actively seeking funding opportunities in this exciting cross-disciplinary area. Joe McArdle - [email protected] University of Chester

Key research interests include population based support through neighborhood assets and self- managing teams – pilots in rural areas. Using wearable technology in out of hospital settings and sleep dysfunction in nursing home settings. Working with and through AHSN & Local Enterprise Partnerships. Key challenges in post Brexit/Industrial Strategy World going forward, are strengthening the links between SMEs and public sector/academic partners. Releasing the devolved assets from council enterprise. Need greater focus on postgraduate apprenticeships and exposure of future students into public sector productivity challenges and population acceptance of self-determination. Future research and clinical workforce will need to maximize use of public sector levy to design portfolio research careers that work across SME/academic interface.

Mark McDermott - [email protected] University of East London

I am a chartered health and clinical psychologist, with over 30 years of experience as a lecturer and researcher in associated areas, including the role of hostility in coronary artery disease, rebelliousness in adolescence, mortality awareness, and the public understanding of depression. I am working currently on the production of a multi-dimensional measure of radicalism and wish to undertake longitudinal research in this area, examining the relative predictive utility of social and psychological antecedents.

Sally McManus - [email protected] NatCen Social Research

General population health and social survey research, specialising in psychiatric epidemiology and research methods and analysis. Run the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey series. Current projects include secondary analyses of that data, for example understanding trends in mental health in women.

Roisin McNaney - [email protected] Lancaster University

I am a double grant award holder from the EPSRC NewMind Plus Network. This year I am leading PI on a project exploring eating disorders in the digital age and a second around tracking behaviours leading to non suicidal self harm episodes. I am a lecturer in digital healthcare technologies at Lancaster university, a member of the data science institute, institute of social futures and connected health cities team. At this networking event I will be representing my interdisciplinary team of academics across York, Manchester, Newcastle and Lancaster, clinical services within Pennine Care, and Industry partners (ORCHA, Kooth online counselling, Girl Guides).

Maria Michail - [email protected] University of Nottingham

I am a senior research fellow with expertise in youth mental health. My work focuses on youth suicide prevention; resilience and prevention of mental ill health. Maria Milenova - [email protected] Kings College London

I work at the Centre for Implementation Science at the Health Service and Population Research Department (KCL) as Project Assistant. I provide research and grants support, liaising with international partners and making sure mental health projects are not developed in silos. Due to my political science background and experience working in international development in the European Commission in Brussels, I am currently part of citiesRISE, an initiative focused on improving wellbeing in cities round the world, developing their capacity to bring innovation and integrate mental health services in sectors such as education, employment, urbanization and community building. I am also the coordinator for the INIDGO Network, a collaboration in over 30 countries worldwide committed to developing knowledge about mental illness related stigma and discrimination, both in terms of their origins and their eradiation.

Craig Morgan - [email protected] Kings College London

I am Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London. My research expertise is in a) investigating the impact social contexts, experiences, and process on the onset, course, and outcome of mental health problems, particularly psychotic disorders and b) life course epidemiology, particularly the development of mental health problems through adolescence. I have considerable experience in leading large multi-centre interdisciplinary collaborative programmes. This includes a 16 centre European study of the incidence and aetiology of psychotic disorders and a 3 centre UK study of first episode psychosis and 10 year outcomes. I currently lead two major programmes: 1) a 5 year MRC funded study of psychosis in India, Nigeria, and Trinidad and 2) a 5 year EU funded cohort study of the development of mental health problems through adolescence.

David Morris - [email protected] University of Central Lancashire

I lead the Centre for Citizenship and Community (CCC), a partnership between UCLan, RSA and LSE. CCC is a research centre with a national and international portfolio of projects concerned with a community and social network approach to mental health and wellbeing. The approach is based on the findings of the five year Connected Communities Study, a collaboration between the organisations now part of CCC. Previously, I led the national social inclusion programme for MH which oversaw implementation of the Social Exclusion Units report Social Exclusion and Mental Health (2005). Our work which represents an innovative research approach bears strongly on the Public Health and Prevention and Living with MH problems themes.

Fehmidah Munir - [email protected] Loughborough University

Two strands of research: Mental health at work; identifying lifestyle factors and other mechanisms in the workplace that can support those with mental health; intervention studies to support return to work following sick leave Those living with and beyond cancer: Exploring mental health and distress among those diagnosed and under-going treatment for cancer and their carers. Looking at the impact of lifestyle factors that can have on support well-being during treatment. Elaine Murray - [email protected] Ulster University

I am lecturer in the Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine at Ulster University. My research is focused on diagnostic and theranostic biomarker discovery and validation for psychiatric disorders. I have specific expertise in psychiatric epigenetics including DNA methylome analysis. I have experience in conducting clinical mental health studies including ethical and governance regulations, consent procedures, sample collection, handling and storage, conducting genetic, epigenetic and proteomic analyses.

Satyajeet Nanda - [email protected] PGRG

Dr. Satyajeet Nanda is trained in Demography, Management and Anthropology (PhD, MBA, MPhil) and received further training in M & E (univ. of Berkley), policy and budget analysis (IBP, USA), Research program management (IIMA), team work, leadership, training (ToT), inter- personal & participatory communication, qualitative & quantitative methodology, Statistical Sampling, population projection & estimation, managing and analyzing major data base like Census, DHS, MICS, RCH with sophisticated IT packages (SPSS, Atlas ti,). I have published and presented high standard research papers (37 citations, h- index=5, google scholar) in books, chapters, peer-reviewed journals, and conf. Over last 15 years, he has worked on a range of development issues across Health and Sanitation, HIV AIDS, Poverty, Rural & Tribal Development, Literacy, Displacement, Program Evaluation and Policy Review and Participatory Governance. He has also completed a number of funded projects in different states of India taking care of complete management of the projects.

Jamal Nasir - [email protected] University of Central Lancashire

My research interests are as follows: Genetics, twin studies, dopamine signalling, molecular biology, genomic Medicine, Human Molecular Genetics, Genetics of schizophrenia and neuropsychiatric disorders. Sarah Norgate - [email protected] University of Salford

Dr Sarah Norgate is a Reader in Applied Developmental Psychology and popular science author at the University of Salford with 26 publications on adult/child health, wellbeing and digital environments. One aspiration is to disrupt UK business as usual. To this end, our team has recently undertaken a review of the mental health impact of the commute and the implications for flexible working agendas. Previous research has been disseminated at the World Health Organisation, and I’m a fellow for life with the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Since my PhD at the University of Warwick, I have partnered with academics, industry, charity and local authorities. Over my career, I have directed externally funded research projects and including those with a digital focus which have won awards from EPSRC Digital Economy and ModeshiftUK. I love working in Salford, a top 20 European digital city (European Digital City Index, Nesta 2016).

Lorna O’Doherty - [email protected] Coventry University

My research expertise is in gender-based violence (GBV) and health. I’m a senior research fellow and I lead a multi-disciplinary violence prevention research group. My published work includes high quality reviews of evidence on universal screening for intimate partner violence (IPV) in health settings; a trial of GP-delivered brief counselling for exposure to IPV; and several qualitative studies involving survivors of IPV. Currently, I am delivering an EC-funded grant on migration and GBV with a view to building capacity across sectors on improved responses to migrant reporting/experiences of violence. Building on this, I am keen to pursue inter-disciplinary lines of enquiry to enable the development, testing and scaling up of new approaches to violence prevention and alleviation of trauma and other impacts. This work is particularly relevant in the context of mass global displacement of people and associated sexual and gender based violence and growing mental health burden.

Bonamy Oliver - [email protected] Goldsmiths, University of London

I am a developmental psychologist with behavioural genetic expertise . An academic with specific interest in mental health and family processes, I have varied experience including working with practitioners as well as in basic science. My professional background includes: set-up and management of the internationally renowned Twins’ Early Development Study (TEDS) which aims to examine genetic and environmental factors important for long term outcomes; identifying risk factors for violence in adolescent girls in Forensic Mental Health Department; and working at the interface between mental health research and practice for children at the National Academy for Parenting Research (NAPR). Understanding young people’s mental health can be advanced through a developmental perspective; my research includes baby-, child- and adolescent samples, employing developmental approaches and longitudinal methodologies. I am particularly interested in family processes: as one of the most salient of environmental experiences, these are key to advancing our understanding of diverse mental health problems, along with being a primary change agent and thus target for prevention and intervention. Long-term, I aim to bridge disciplinary gaps within and between basic science, prevention and intervention. Siobhan O’Neill - [email protected] Ulster University

I am a Professor of Mental Health Sciences at Ulster University and have worked as an academic researcher in mental health and wellbeing for 20 years. My research programmes focus on trauma and suicidal behaviour in NI and novel interventions for mental health and suicidal behaviour. I have expertise in qualitative and quantitative (epidemiology and survey) research methods. In 2008 I coordinated the largest ever study of mental health in Northern Ireland, the NI Study of Health and Stress. This study revealed the high proportions of the NI population who had unmet mental health needs and the extent of mental health disorders associated with the NI conflict. I am also a coordinator of the NI suicide study, a study of the characteristics of over 1600 completed suicides and undetermined deaths. I am responsible for the dissemination of research findings on trauma and suicide to policy makers and stakeholders in NI.

Aurora Paillard - [email protected] London College of Fashion, University of the Arts

Following my PhD (obtained in January 2010), I carried out two postdoctoral positions, obtained a Lecturer position in September 2013, and I am to date a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at London College of Fashion. My main research interests involve psychological and psychophysiological features related to body image, sensory integration, and motion sickness. I have a particular interest in body dissatisfaction and would like to reorient my body image research by further study the mental health consequences of body dissatisfaction. Moreover, one of my promising MSc student would like to start a PhD on assessing the role of Fashion, in particular clothing, in trauma resilience.

Harry Palmer - [email protected] Centre for Mental Health

Centre for Mental Health is a research charity that works to improve the lives of people with mental health problems. We are one of the UK’s foremost charity policy advisors and have specific interest in children, criminal justice, health economics and veterans’ mental health. I specifically oversee and manage a large mental health programme supporting veterans, which funds academic research to generate further evidence regarding best practice around transitioning veterans with mental health problems back into the civilian population. I am hoping that this event will aid the ESRC/MHRP from gaining better contextual knowledge about our funding overlaps and gaps – with a possibility of considering future, join calls for proposals.

Hester Parr - [email protected] Glasgow University

I am a social and cultural geographer who has worked on mental health research for 25 years. I work qualitatively (via ethnography, interviewing, creative methods, film, stories), with community partners, to produce research impact at a variety of scales. I was awarded the Outstanding Impact in Society Award in 2015 for my work with missing people and the UK police and currently am working with the Scottish Government to oversee the legacy of new National Framework for Missing People in Scotland. This work directly improves the lives of vulnerable people with mental health problems who go missing. I am interested in taking forward robust, cross-disciplinary and high quality research in association with the new mental health research agenda. I want to engage cultural and behavioral change in association with these research plans, and through effective networks. Ian Penton-Voak - [email protected] University of Bristol

I am an experimental psychologist with an interest in the role of social cognition (particularly emotion processing) in mental health disorders (particularly depression, conduct disorder, and addiction/ substance use). I have published extensively in this area, and have 90+ peer reviewed publications with an H index of 32. I have received funding from the MRC, ERAB, The British Academy, Innovate UK and the NIHR for my mental health work, and further funding from the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust and Royal Society for work on social perception more generally. I am a co-investigator on the Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Mental Health Theme. I work closely with Cambridge Cognition on the development of assessment tools for academic and pharmacological research. I am particularly interested in sociocognitive deficits associated with depression, and the possibility that these may provide targets for cognitive interventions either as stand alone or adjunct therapies.

Konstantina Poursanidou - [email protected] Kings College London

I have a background in psychology and education and have been a University-based social science researcher since 2000. Having completed a range of studies in the fields of mental health, education, child health, youth justice, and social policy/social welfare in the context of my doctoral and post-doctoral research work, my research background and orientation is strongly inter-disciplinary. My main research interests and areas of expertise include medical sociology/sociology of mental health; the intersections of physical and mental health and illness; Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in mental health research; user/survivor-led mental health research; theory and practice of qualitative, narrative and biographical research; the use of autoethnography in mental health research; and the use of visual methods in research. I have extensive experience of carrying out qualitative research with vulnerable groups (including adults and young people with mental health problems), as well as professionals in welfare (including mental health) services, on sensitive topics. My research career so far reflects my passion for and strong interest in mental health research which are both academic/intellectual and deeply personal in nature. Both my doctoral and post-doctoral research to date point to an established commitment to research in mental health. I embarked on doctoral research in mental health following my first episode of clinical depression back in 1991/1992. My PhD research explored subclinical adolescent depression as a socio-cultural phenomenon using a comparative study of the experience of depression in English and Greek adolescents. Since 2010 and following a serious mental health crisis I have been working as a Service User Researcher in the field of mental health research. Since 2015 I have been based at the Service User Research Enterprise, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, holding a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dawn Querstret - [email protected] Surrey University

I develop and evaluate digitally operationalized interventions for mental health and wellbeing in a range of contexts and populations. At present my research focus is on assessing the efficacy of online mindfulness interventions with a specific intent to identify for whom these interventions will be most effective. Current projects involve multiple sclerosis and stroke; however, I also have an interest in developing interventions for other health populations (e.g., menopausal women). Another focus is on the mental health consequences of being unable to ‘switch off’ from work. Within this, I am predominantly interested in work- related rumination, its relationship with other forms of perseverative thinking (e.g., depressive rumination and worry), and the impact of perseverative cognition on psychological and physical health. I am currently supervising multiple projects developing and evaluating interventions to reduce work-related rumination and worry in different occupational populations (e.g., paramedics, nurses, and healthcare students).

Nurul Ramzi - [email protected] Imperial College London

Screening for autism and other related neurodevelopmental disorders is complex; my start-up/ enterprise team has created an interactive tool to score a child’s risk of autism and other related developmental disorder which called the Autism App project. I am the founder and one of the semi- finalist for Althea-Imperial 2017 programme, a program that promotes female student for their enterprising idea. I studied the little known of autism trait (alexithymia) for my PhD, has a child diagnosed with specific language impairment, and appreciates how bewildering the autism diagnosis can be for families. This digital platform brings education on developmental disorders to the UK public and assurance to families that have concerns for their children.

Anne Rathbone - [email protected] University of Brighton/BoingBoing

A final year part time PhD student with Prof Angie Hart working on co-produced resilience research with learning disabled young adults. Also Senior Training and Consultancy Manager for Boingboing CIC which works with Professor Hart to promote co-produced resilience research and the embedding of resilience evidence based into practice, with a social justice lens. Supporting projects funded by ESRC, AHRC, GCRF Global Challenge Fund. Managing young staff and volunteers with lived experience of mental health issues and other complex needs. Working with Local Authorities and Schools to embed a co-production approach to resilience and mental health service design systems and delivery, through BIG Lottery funded and directly commissioned partnerships. Associate member of the new Resilience Centre (working title CoRE), currently being established within University of Brighton. Finalist in NCCPE Engagement Awards 2016 for boingboing Youth Partnership Project.

Paula Reavey - [email protected] London South Bank University

Paula Reavey is Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, a director of the Design in Mental Health Network UK, and research consultant at St. Andrew’s Healthcare. She has carried a number of empirical studies in psychiatric inpatient units with staff and service users, in general adult, CAMHS and forensic settings, using qualitative-visual methods. In 2014, she won the British Psychological Society book prize for her work on mental health and distress (with John Cromby & Dave Harper). Prof. Reavey is currently developing a programme of research examining examines sexuality and relationships, for forensic service users, in community and inpatient settings (funded by the Wellcome trust). Her work also includes the examination of how ‘memory’ operates in forensic mental health settings, funded by St. Andrew’s, and is working with colleagues at UCL to increase cultural capital for young people who experience distress. Marcus Richards - [email protected] University College London

I have over 20 years of experience in leading research into life course epidemiological approaches to mental health, encompassing cognitive function, and anxiety and depression. This mainly involves the British birth cohorts. Prior to this I conducted research into the epidemiology of dementia, and area to which I am returning as the oldest of the birth cohorts (1946) transitions into old age.

Ian Rivers - [email protected] University of Strathclyde

My research falls into two broad categories: peer victimization (bullying) and its implications for mental health of the whole school population; and the well-being of young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and/or intersex. For over twenty-five years my research in these two fields has been at the cutting edge and has led to appointments on two Federal expert panels to consider the well-being and mental health of children in the US public school system. Currently my focus is on bystander behaviour and the psychological trauma that follows being a witness to a violent interaction in schools. I am also researching how observing similar others being bullied leads to emotional disturbance and poor mental health.

Debbie Robson - [email protected] Kings College London

I am a mental health nurse and senior post doc researcher with 30 years experience of clinical, education and research experience. I work with a multidisciplinary team of tobacco control and mental health experts, developing, implementing and evaluating interventions to improve the physical and mental health of people with severe mental illness. I’m also involved in developing policy at a local and national level.

Diana Rose - [email protected] Kings College London

I am a social scientist and also Professor of User-Led Research at Institute of Psychiatry Kings. For more than 20 years I have been building a team who can conceptualise and theorise sociologically the role of people who use mental health services (‘patients’) in changing, slowly or radically, mental health systems and services or their informal equivalents especially in the Global South. I hold a Wellcome Investigator Award in relation to this but also am now working with a group of colleagues across King’s to formalise this thinking more broadly to position sociology as a basic discipline in mental health including, but not bounded by, developing a ‘science from below’. Other members of the group have different emphases but all are driven by the conviction that mental health must have a sociological heart given mounting evidence of the social determinants of distress, inequalities on a global scale and the recent acknowledgements that the people most affected by this must be represented at the table. Abi Rose - [email protected] University of Liverpool

An experimental psychologist with extensive experience in lab-based and clinical research concerning alcohol addiction. Identifying the cognitive and behavioural processes underlying alcohol use and determining treatment efficacy within a strong theoretical framework. Studying the effects of context on behavior; investigating how environments can be changed to shape positive health behaviours.

Richard Rowe - [email protected] University of Sheffield

Richard Rowe is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Richard’s research focusses on developmental psychopathology, particularly antisocial behaviour, and related health outcomes such as road traffic crash in young drivers. Examples of previous and on-going work includes understanding the mechanisms linking family socio-economic status with child

antisocial behaviour, and modelling the structure of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in pre-schoolers. Methodological approaches include analysing existing large-scale longitudinal datasets including those using twin and family designs. As well as identifying risk pathways, Richard works on the design and evaluation of brief behaviour change interventions.

Alexander Rozental - [email protected] University College London

Alexander Rozental is a licensed psychologist in Sweden. In 2017 he obtained his doctoral degree in psychology at Stockholm University, with a thesis on negative effects of psychological treatments. Furthermore, he has worked on three different clinical trials in Sweden and the United Kingdom, and is currently a senior honorary lecturer at the Institute of Child Health at UCL.

Kristy Sanderson - [email protected] University of East Anglia

I am a psychiatric epidemiologist and Chair in Applied Health Research working towards an improved evidence base for public health approaches to the common mental disorders. My research spans the applied health and social sciences including public health, epidemiology, business studies, psychology, and health economics. Current funded research projects include: understanding childhood pathways to mental disorders and chronic physical conditions via shared environmental and behavioural factors; mental health promotion and prevention through digital technologies including universal and selected approaches; and methods to engage businesses in health and wellbeing initiatives by understanding what they value. Prior to relocating to the UK earlier this year my work has been supported by the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council and Australian Research Council through various projects and research fellowships. Much of this research has been in partnership with end-users across various branches of government, regulators, NGOs, and business and industry groups. Leo Schalkwyk - [email protected] University of Essex

Originally a microbiologist from Canada, Leo studied at the University of Alberta, graduating in 1983. His PhD (Dalhousie University, 1991) was on genome mapping of Haloferax, an archaeon from the Dead Sea. He worked on genomic resources for several species and genome mapping of mouse in Hans Lehrach’s laboratory at the ICRF laboratory in London and at the Max-Planck- Institut für molekulare Genetik in Berlin. He was at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, King’s College London from 2000-2014, and subsequently the University of Essex, where he works on functional genomics and epigenomics, identifying genes involved in behaviour in the mouse and in depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease in human. His research program is now widening to include population and environmental epigenetics.

Anke Schat - [email protected] London College of Fashion, Psychology, University of the Arts London Leiden University Medical Centre

Over the past years, my research has focused on various aspects of mental health. I have published on Electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment for chronic depression and its effect on memory function. Subsequently, I studied the course and phenomenology of anxiety disorders in naturalistic treatment settings, analyzing the course of common anxiety disorders, the prevalence and course of suicidal ideation in outpatients with depression and anxiety disorders, and the characteristics of anxiety disorders across different age groups. I set up and ran a multi-centre trial on a nutritional intervention aimed at reducing aggression among long-term psychiatric inpatients, usually diagnosed with psychotic disorders or complex personality disorder. Currently, my focus is on the mental health of academic students in general, and arts students in particular, specifically the course of mental health, predicting the onset of mood and anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation and developing preventive measures.

Samantha Scholtz - [email protected] West London Mental Health Trust

My clinical and research expertise is in the psychological aspects of obesity, weight management and bariatric surgery. I am also the R&D director of West London Mental Health Trust, where the interface between physical and mental health is a core area of strategic expansion in research, in line with available clinical expertise and populations. WLMHT is expanded from a mental health Trust to incorporate public health services (smoking cessation and childhood obesity services) and community health services (Home Ward and community independence services) and so is ideally placed to carry out cross-disciplinary research in partnership with our academic partners.

Catherine Sebastian - [email protected] Royal Holloway University of London

I am currently a Reader in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway. My research looks at how young people learn to regulate their emotions, and how this relates to socioemotional wellbeing and mental health, particularly in relation to aggressive behaviour. My research is interdisciplinary, spanning cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology and affective science. I recently completed an ESRC Future Research Leaders award on the topic of emotion regulation and mental health in adolescence, and am interested in further developing my research in this area. In particular I would like to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms underpinning ‘reactive’ aggression provoked ‘in the heat of the moment’ and occurring transdiagnostically across a broad range of mental health conditions. May Seitanidi - [email protected] Kent University

Within the broad field of Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics and Sustainability my research focuses on the changing roles and responsibilities of the public, private, and non-profit sectors. More specifically it looks at the enabling conditions, the governance and the types of outcomes pluralistic institutional environments deliver on multiple levels when aiming to address complex social issues such as poverty alleviation, social exclusion and healthcare.

Ruth Sellers - [email protected] University of Sussex

Research interests focus on: (1) risk and resilience-based processes (e.g. parent psychopathology, parenting) underlying child psychopathology and related outcomes; (2) gene-environmental interplay for child psychopathology; (3) employing longitudinal research designs to better understand mechanisms that may explain the development of psychopathology.

Aditya Sharma - [email protected] University of Newcastle

The main focus of my clinical academic work is understanding and improving the factors that influence outcomes in early onset mood disorders. Vital to this is a multidisciplinary and multi-agency approach and to this end I have forged relationships with clinicians (nursing, psychology, OT, service managers), academics (Human computer interaction specialists, sociologists, teachers) and most importantly experts by experience (young people aged 16-25 years and their families and carers. I am a co-applicant on the Newcastle University application to the MRC Confidence in Global Mental Health funding stream which has been co-designed with collaborators in India. As child psychiatry member of the UK MHRA Psychiatry Expert Advisory Group and the co-organiser of the BAP Child Psychiatry module, I have forged links to facilitate child psychopharmacology trials in partnership with pharmacists, endocrinologists.

Najma Siddiqi - [email protected] University of York

Design and evaluation of complex interventions focusing on mental and physical multimorbidity, with a focus on i) longterm conditions in severe mental illness; ii) delirium in care home & palliative care settings. Leading the DIAMONDS research programme which is an interdisciplinary collaboration between academics, NHS & service users (part of the YH CLAHRC mental health theme). Leading NIHR-funded programme on interventions to support self-management of diabetes & other longterm conditions in severe mental illness.

Salma Siddique - [email protected] University of Aberdeen

Salma joined the School of Education in January 2015 as Director for the counselling, psychotherapy and experiential therapies programmes. She has experience of Project Management in developing and promoting the mental health and well being strategy for minority ethnic coomunities in public health for NHS Health Scotland. Salma is qualified as an accredited psychotherapist and supervisor in the relational approach to psychotherapy and experiential therapies. Her initial training was as an anthropologist with a keen interest in medical humanities, indigenous epistemologies. She continues to practise as a volunteer psychotherapist and supervises trainee and qualified psychotherapists and counsellors. David Skuse - [email protected] University College London/Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

I have been a clinical academic at UCL since 1985, and PI on many international and interdisciplinary studies of child mental health (especially neurodevelopmental disorders). Of relevance to all four overarching Research Areas is the mental health of people with intellectual disability (ID). I lead a national research programme (2014-9), funded by MRC/MRF, studying mental health risks among children with ID of known genetic origin (up to 10,000, identified from UK-wide NHS screening). Preliminary findings indicate socio-economic deprivation influences their emotional and behavioural adjustment, irrespective of genotype. Cross-disciplinary research is required to clarify the relative roles of genetics, early adversity, social support, physical health, and economic factors on mental health of probands and family members. Outputs relate to scope for preventive intervention, by understanding mental health risk factors, importance of physical health, prevention and wellbeing, and quality of life in both childhood and adulthood. All cross-cutting themes are relevant.

Matthew Smith - [email protected] University of Strathclyde

I am Professor of Health History and Vice Dean of Research for Strathclyde’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where we are making mental health one of our key research areas. I have been funded by the Wellcome Trust and AHRC, amongst other funders, to research many aspects of the history of mental health, ranging from ADHD and childhood disorders to social psychiatry and the politics of preventive mental health. I am very keen to ensure that prevention plays a key role in mental health research and policy, and have made this a focal point of my public engagement work as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinking and working with schools, mental health professionals and policy makers. Kai Tan - [email protected] Kings College London

I’m an interdisciplinary artist, curator, researcher and matchmaker. My work explores the body and mind in motion and commotion and how that relates to place and other bodies and minds. I use performance, installation, text, research and curation, and collage together psychogeography, neuroscience, philosophy and mind-body poetics from Chinese Daoism amongst others in my work. After circumnavigating the elite art world (Biennale of Sydney, MOMA, ZKM Museum of London et al) I got tired of only talking to the converted so I went to do my PhD (UCL Slade). My research reimagined the popular of running as a creative toolkit and with that I founded and curate the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale www.kaisyngtan. com/r3fest which brings people from all walks together to explore running beyond ‘just’ a sport but as an arts and humanities discourse. www.kaisyngtan.com I also help manage a JISC mail called ‘Running Cultures’. I am now KCL’s SGDP visiting researcher and first artist in residence (through the Kings Artists scheme). With Professor of Molecular Psychiatry Philip Asherson I am working on an arts commission funded by Arts Council England through Unlimited, a commissioning body that supports ambitious art by disabled artists. www.kaisyngtan. com/magiccarpet. Our project is an art-practice based research on mind wandering with a special focus on adult ADHD and through that extend the rich discourse on wellbeing and boundaries between (ab)normality. Fireworks can happen when disciplines collide (my collaborator geographer Dr Alan Latham and I name that ‘productive antagonisms’), and sometimes art can play a critical role in provoking new insights. Eg this interdisciplinary event https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mind-wandering-worst-enemy-or-best-friend- tickets-38493380738

Clare Taylor - [email protected] Kings College London

My PhD research looked at women with serious mental disorders who were pregnant using data linkage and I am now working on an infrastructure grant to link multiple sources of data across Kings Health Partners using maternity, child and mental health data aswell as national data sources such as HES and national pupil database in order to start carrying out research in life course epidemiology using data linkage. Outside work I practice a lot of yoga and meditation and dabble in mind body therapies such as bioenergetics, core energetics and chakra work.

David Taylor-Robinson - [email protected] University of Liverpool

I’m a Professor of Public Health; Honorary Consultant in Public Health at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital; and Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist. I lead a programme of research to inform the development of more effective policies to reduce inequalities in child health. I work with a team skilled in social epidemiology; causal analysis; systematic reviews; analysis of cohort and population level linked datasets; and child health policy. In my clinical public health duties, I work with Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Liverpool City Council to develop more effective and equitable services for children in the city. Child mental health and mental health over the lifecourse is a current focus. Through the PHE commissioned Due North report (Taylor-Robinson - child health lead), we have made the case for local actions to mitigate the impact of local government cuts and welfare reform on child mental health outcomes. Jessica Teeling - [email protected] University of Southampton

Psychological disorders have multifactorial etiologies, involving complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Increasing evidence suggests that systemic inflammation, for example as a result of common bacterial infections, significantly influences our mental health, measured by fatigue, dementia, anxiety and depression. We very recently demonstrated a significant association with one type of infection in particular: periodontitis or gum disease, and our experimental models of dementia and depression have revealed a critical factor of the immune system, including microglial activation, in the underlying biology. Thus, using clinical samples and experimental models, combined with multiplex biomarker analysis and behavioral studies, we show evidence for a role of systemic, bacterial infection as a risk factor for earlier onset and/or progression of mental health disorders.

Felicity Thomas - [email protected] University of Exeter

I currently lead an ESRC funded project on mental health in low-income communities in the UK (http:// medicine.exeter.ac.uk/destress/). As a social scientist, I use participatory, ethnographic and narrative approaches to understand how patients perceive and respond to mental ill-health, and to examine the complex array of factors that influence mental health diagnosis and treatment options. I am particularly interested in the medicalisation of poverty-related stress and anxiety within the current context of austerity and welfare reform, and in understanding effective treatment and support paths for patients experiencing co-morbidities. My work engages with health professionals, commissioners, the voluntary sector and members of the public, all of whom play a key role in co-creating and guiding my work.

Jenny Tillotson - [email protected] University of Cambridge

Expertise in wearable technology, fashion, fragrance and wellbeing. The research centres around an emotionally intelligent fragrance dispenser that can be discreetly integrated into jewellery, accessories, or apparel. It uses connected sensors and AI to gradually learn from the user, creating a tailored and personalised fragrance profile. A localised ‘scent bubble’ is pulsed at pre-determined intervals around the wearer’s nose to enhance mood. For example, wellbeing scents can be bio-synced to a person’s emotional, mental, or physical state and in a real-time manner relieves their condition i.e. anxiety, stress, insomnia, memory, pain, etc. Alternatively, eScent® can deliver metered doses of fine fragrance to enhance experience-led fashion for brands with their own fragrance division.

Umar Toseeb - [email protected] University of York

I am interested in understanding Childhood, Developmental Disorders, and Mental Health using data driven quantitative methodological approaches. Specifically, why and how do children with developmental disorders, such as developmental language disorder and autism spectrum disorder, have worse mental health? I do this by analysing data from large longitudinal birth cohorts. I have extensive experience of applying modern statistical analysis techniques such as structural equation modelling, latent class analysis, and mixture modelling etc. to data. My previous work shows that there is considerable heterogeneity in the mental health of children with developmental disorders. The identification of subgroups, using data driven statistical methods, has two main benefits: 1) subgroups of children who are at most risk of developing poor mental health can be targeted using early interventions and 2) subgroups of children who have good mental health can be researcher to understand what makes them resilient to adverse mental health outcomes. Janet Treasure - [email protected] Kings College London

I have been involved in a large range of research activities centred on eating disorder. These range from genetic, biological and neuroscience research through to pharmacological and psychosocial interventions. We have co-produced interventions with recovered patients and carers using some of the newest technologies including iPod, DVDs and web based platforms.

Ian Tucker - [email protected] University of East London

I have extensive experience of researching ‘lived experiences’ of mental health service users (e.g. digital therapies, treatment and interventions, designing therapeutic environments). I believe in researching from the perspective of those suffering, and have worked with service users in research design and dissemination, e.g. in NHS forensic units and community centres. I have published widely in these areas. I have led funded projects for Mental Health Foundation and EPSRC Communities & Culture Network+ (CCN+), and have a long standing partnership with MIND (currently Research Advisor for their 3.2M Peer Support programme). As CCN+ core member I led a cross-disciplinary (e.g. computer scientists, digital SMEs, service users) ‘Social media for peer support’ project, in partnership with MIND. The findings led to MIND changing the user policy for their online peer support platform, www.elefriends.org.uk. As a senior research leader (Psychology lead - University Research Committee) I am well placed to represent UEL’s expertise.

Nicola Turner - [email protected] University of Nottingham

My research interests are: how young people experience the life-limiting illness of a family member; early identification and early intervention to reduce the risk of negative outcomes; promoting resilience and peer support for young people who are facing the death of a family member; building capacity to support young people in the social, physical and virtual environments they inhabit.

Elizabeth Tyler - [email protected] Lancaster University

Elizabeth Tyler is a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) fellow and Lecturer in Mental Health based at the Spectrum Centre for Mental Health, Lancaster University. Elizabeth is a qualified clinical psychologist with a particular interest in working with individuals with bipolar disorder. Elizabeth’s main research interests focus on developing evidence based therapy interventions for individuals who have previously found it difficult access psychological care. Elizabeth is currently funded on the NIHR doctoral fellowship programme to develop and test out a recovery focused CBT intervention for older people with bipolar disorder. The Spectrum Centre has received funding from various research councils (e.g. ESRC, NIHR, MRC) over the years to fund research into predominantly developing psychosocial interventions for individuals with bipolar and psychosis and their families. As a team we are very interested in looking at cross research council funding and attendance at this event would be greatly welcomed. Carien van Reekum - [email protected] University of Reading

I am currently a Research Director (‘Research Division Leader’) of the Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience research division at the University of Reading. In our group, basic and clinical research intersects and we take a ‘lab to clinic’ approach. Our expertise in anxiety, depression and wellbeing across the lifespan (childhood and adolescence, ageing) is world- leading: https://www.reading.ac.uk/research/theme-health/rd-psychopathology-and-affective-neuroscience. aspx. My research focuses on emotion (dys)regulation and consequences for mental health and wellbeing across the lifespan, with a focus on ageing, and using psychological and neuroscientific techniques.

Nicole Votruba - [email protected] Kings College London

Researcher in global mental health, working with a focus on stigma and discrimination, gender, and evidence into policy making, in low and middle income countries. I’m involved in EU and other grant collaborations, and working on an ESRC funded PhD on mental health research into policy making. Prior to this I worked as research grant manager on several EU funded projects.

Mike Wald - [email protected] University of Southampton

I was Director of the Southern Higher Education Consortium that established disability coordinators and disability services including mental health in 8 universities in the South of England as well as a centre for assessing students entitled to the Disabled Students’ Allowance. I lead the accessibility team in the Web and Internet Science research group and am Chair of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering Equality Diversity and Inclusion Committee. I am also a member of the University Disabled Staff Working Group.

Martin Webber - [email protected] University of York

I am a mental health social worker by background and my research and teaching interests lie in this field. In particular, I develop and evaluate social interventions which aim to improve social outcomes for people with mental health problems. These particularly focus on community engagement and building social networks, but are not limited to this. I have used a full range of methodologies in my work including ethnographic and in-depth qualitative methods; case-control studies; cohort studies; and quasi-experimental studies. I am currently leading an implementation study of an intervention to enhance the social networks of people with mental health problems and involved as a co-investigator in a multi-site RCT of a similar intervention.

Scott Weich - [email protected] University of Sheffield

I am Professor of Mental Health at ScHARR, where I lead the Mental Health Research Unit, and collaborate on a wide range of applied mental health services research projects. I also co-lead the Yorkshire and Humber Mental Health & Comorbidities CLAHRC theme. My research currently includes NIHR HSDR studies concerned with ways to use patient experience feedback to improve service quality, and the determinants and outcomes of increasing rates of compulsion in mental health. I am currently involved in projects using assistive technologies to improve the efficiency of delivering psychological therapies, particularly to those with long-term physical health problems. Charlotte Woodhead - [email protected] University College London

My background is in social epidemiology, with a focus on mental health and health inequalities research. For the last 2.5 years I have carried out applied health research as an ‘embedded researcher’ within local authority public health and adult social services in two London boroughs. This work has focused on i) the impact of providing co-located welfare advice services in primary care on mental health, well-being and financial strain; ii) the impact of an integrated community health, public health and social services model on preventing/delaying need for statutory services. My current and future research interests are focused on mental health prevention and public mental health. This includes plans to apply for funding to co-produce a social prescribing model for young people; explore factors which may account for household-level variation in mental health; and, carry out an intersectional analysis of the impact of housing-related factors on mental health.

Nick Wright - [email protected] University of Nottingham

There are 46 million people enslaved around the world today. The global effort to tackle this human rights crisis is nearly 20 years old and is history’s fourth great antislavery movement. Slavery is a new focus for the UK government, and a global political commitment to end slavery by 2030 is enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 8.7). But the growth of the antislavery movement masks its short-term thinking. With some key exceptions on the part of antislavery organisations and policy-makers who are our closest collaborators, it focuses on urgent liberations and prosecutions, and lacks robust, evidence-based strategies for abolition. We have therefore built the world’s first large-scale research platform for ending slavery. Home to the world’s leading experts on contemporary slavery, our Rights Lab underpins antislavery with an advanced research agenda for the first time in its 230-year history. One of the projects includes the first extended attempt to understand the mental health and behaviour aspects of contemporary slavery, and a unique programme of therapeutic care for people coming out of enslavement. Dr Nick Wright is the Research Development Manager with the Rights Lab.

Barry Wright - [email protected] University of York

Chair of Child Mental Health, Head of Child Oriented Mental health Intervention Centre (COMIC). Research focuses on child oriented, child friendly interventions improving the quality of life of children and the mental health of deaf children. He also Clinical Lead of the nationally commissioned National Deaf Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (NDCAMHS). He has worked with children and their families, from early childhood to young adulthood, with a wide range of different abilities and difficulties for over 25 years. He has a special interest in improving mental health care for deaf children and has conducted and published a large number of studies. Chief Investigator Grants since 2011 (over £4 million)

Jinghao Xue - [email protected] University College London

Mainly due to my slightly uncommon education background (with two doctoral degrees: a Doctor of Engineering in signal and information processing and a PhD in statistics), my research is interdisciplinary between statistics and engineering. At present, my research focuses on developing appropriate machine learning techniques and theories for statistical (frequentist and Bayesian) inference from large-scale high-dimensional, complex data, including the 2D/3D images for biometric recognition, remote sensing and medical imaging applications. My expertise on statistical pattern recognition, image analysis, feature extraction, and data fusion and mining is relevant to the area of ‘Understanding mental health and mental health problem’ and within the crosscutting theme of ‘Technology and data’. I got substantial experience in cross- disciplinary collaboration with researchers and industries outsides of statistics, which is also relevant and can contribute to the construction of a ‘Cross-disciplinary mental health network+’. (Please find my recent research work at http:// www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakjxu/. Thanks.) Joanna Yarker - [email protected] Kingston University

I divide time between research and consultancy and strive to work together with organisations to improve the health and wellbeing of employees. For the past 17 years I have worked with organisations to implement stress management and mental health interventions and have led projects funded by the HSE, CIPD, British Occupational Health Research Foundation and been a co-investigator on projects funded by the Mental Health Foundation and Cancer Research UK, all of which have focused on understanding the needs of employees during, and following, illness. Importantly, all of these projects have led to the development of practical guidance to support employees, managers and organisations. Most recently I have led a project funded by the DWP to develop a toolkit to support the return to work of employees following mental health sickness absence. I am currently working with a number of clients in the public and private sector using a risk management approach to identify the causes of mental ill-health, absence and poor employee engagement, using mixed methods approaches and working with senior stakeholders, managers and teams to promote change and develop healthy working practices.

Louise Arseneault - [email protected] Kings College London, ESRC Mental Health Leadership Fellow

My research focuses on the study of harmful behaviours such as violence and substance dependence, their developmental origins, their inter-connections with mental health, and their consequences for victims. I examined harmful behaviours as a developmental outcome, primarily in adolescents and in adults. Over time, the focus of my research broadened to include harmful behaviours as causes of mental health problems. I have taken a developmental approach to investigate how the consequences of violence begin in childhood and persist to mild-life, by studying bullying victimisation and child maltreatment. My research aims are to answer questions relevant to psychology and psychiatry by harnessing and combining 3 different research approaches: developmental research, epidemiological methods and genetically-sensitive designs. My work incorporates social as well as biological measurements.

Martin Halliwell - [email protected] University of Leicester

I am a specialist in American cultural, intellectual and literary history and the medical humanities.

Tom Kirkham - [email protected] Hartree Centre

My research background is in data security and privacy. The Hartree Centre is a UK national center for supercomputing with a focus on ‘big data’ analysis and integration. We work with the health sector in a variety of domains from analyzing data to help predict patient outcomes to the development of cognitive computing applications to support patients at the Alder Hey hospital. Emily Simonoff - [email protected] Kings College London

Emily Simonoff is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. She is Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the academic lead for the Child Mental Disorders Clinical Academic Group of King’s Health Partners. Prof Simonoff is a member of the MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board. Her research interests focus on the interface among neurodevelopmental disorders, especially autism, ADHD and intellectual disability. She leads and is involved with studies of both epidemiological and clinical populations that include research involving underlying disease mechanisms, longitudinal developmental cohorts and clinical trials. Her research is cited in 4 NICE guidelines where she is a senior clinical advisor; she is also Chair of the European ADHD Guidelines Group.

Andrew Steptoe - [email protected] University College London

Andrew Steptoe is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health.

Chris Taylor - [email protected] University of Manchester/New Minds Professor Chris Taylor has joint appointments in the Schools of Computer Science and Health Science in the University of Manchester. He has a long-standing interest in health informatics, with core expertise in medical image analysis and machine learning. He was until recently chair of the EPSRC Healthcare Technologies SAT, and is PI for the EPSRC-funded NewMind technology for mental health network, a partnership with the NIHR MindTech HTC. Over the past three years NewMind has built a community of over 350 researchers and developed a Technology for Mental Health Research Roadmap, working with clinicians, service-users, mental health charities, and EPS researchers. NewMind Website: http:// www.newmindnetwork.org.uk/