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IoPPN Research Festival 2019 'Impact through Innovation'

With a theme of ‘Impact through Innovation’, 2019’s festival featured the incredibly varied research here at the IoPPN, from reprogramming cell identity within the central nervous system, to evolutionary risk taking in brain development, to the impact of the urban environment on mental health. The keynote talks were from Professor Sir John Strang and Professor Ulrike Schmidt.

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The inaugural IoPPN Research Festival 2019 ‘Impact through Innovation’ celebrates excellence, inclusivity and collaboration that makes the IoPPN such a wonderful institution for working and studying.

The full programme for this year's event can be found here.

Watch the recording.

Full line-up of speakers and topics:

Professor Sir John Strang Preventing deaths from heroin/opioid overdose: new thinking, experimental testing, policy influence and lives consequently saved

Dr Claire Troakes Banking on brains: tissue donation for neuroscience research

Professor Benedikt Berninger Brains in metamorphosis: reprogramming cell identity within the central nervous system

Dr Vanessa Lawrence Qualitative methods and intervention studies: moving service users' experiences centre stage

Dr Christoph Mueller How routinely collected data can improve dementia care

Dr Stephanie Forkel Public outreach: the story behind an image

Professor Alan Simpson Innovation, impact and improvements in mental health care

Dr Debbie Robson Implementing smoke-free polices in mental health settings

Dr Kris de Meyer The Justice Syndicate: combining interactive theatre with psychology teaching and research

Professor Louise Arseneault With a little help from my friends: social relationships and their impact on mental health and wellbeing

Dr Sameer Jauhar Sailing close to the wind of psychotic fire: a dopamine journey

Professor Corinne Houart Evolutionary risk taking in brain development

Professor Ulrike Schmidt The story of FREED: a service-level innovation, its implementation and emerging impacts

Robin Bisson Hitting the headlines – maximising impact through media exposure

Dr Marta di Forti Heavy cannabis use contributes to the high rates of psychotic disorders in London and Amsterdam

Dr Simone Fox The impact of qualitative research in multisystemic therapy for young people at risk of care or custody

Dr Ioannis Bakolis The urban environment and mental health

Dr Philippa Warren Drawing breath after spinal cord injury

Professor Robert Plomin The DNA revolution

Dr Penny Brown Fitness to plead on trial

Dr Jemeen Sreedharan TDP-43 gains function due to perturbed autoregulation in a Tardbp knock-in mouse model of ALS-FTD

Dr Katharine Rimes LGBT+ mental health research

Dr Diana Cash Stressed rats and empathic mice: translational neuroimaging at The BRAIN Centre

Professor David Veale Triple chronotherapy for the rapid treatment of depression

NB: Internal and external events with a diversity of speakers are an important mechanism for us at King's to not only share our work and research but to freely exchange and explore ideas. We believe that open and uncensored debate from all sides is one of our core purposes as a university, provided they take place without fear of intimidation and within the framework of the law.

This can mean that events or speakers may present points of view, debate or ideas which some may disagree with or find upsetting, and we acknowledge the depth of feeling from staff and students to some issues.

All IoPPN events adhere to King’s position on Freedom of Expression, and do not allow speech which discriminates based on the Equality Act and other relevant legislation.

For more on King’s position on Freedom of Expression, please see here.

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