Having just performed their Open Letter piece at the BIGSPD Annual Conference: A Performed Exploration of Democratic Solutions for Distress Often Referred to as ‘Personality’, Fi and Mel talk about their lived experience of mental health difficulties, their creative approach to starting meaningful conversations about 'personality disorders', and their hopes for the future of training for people who work in the mental health system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fiona Kuhn-Thompson and Melanie Ball - An Open Letter

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Welcome to the third and final episode of the 2024 IoPPN Research Festival podcast. Every year the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience hosts a 1 day festival that brings together a really diverse mix of mental health scientists, to present their work and learn from each other.
The theme this year is Origins and New Beginnings. Alongside the keynote talks from Melanie Abas, Emily Simonoff and Edgar Jones, there will be 21 lightning talks from some of the institute's top researchers, staff and students.
In this third podcast episode, we meet Melanie Amna Abas, Professor of Global Mental Health at King's College London. She's a psychiatric epidemiologist and a psychiatrist who cares for people in South London but also in Zimbabwe where she has worked clinically and as a researcher for many years. Her early research in Zimbabwe looked at the social origins of depression in women, and from there she has gone on to conduct interdisciplinary epidemiological research in other countries including Thailand, Moldova & Sri Lanka.
Her talk at the festival focuses on Global mental health and the ambition to end HIV/AIDS. You can hear more from Prof Abas at the 2024 IoPPN Research Festival, taking place on 15th May 2024: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ioppn-research-festival--tickets-856888826547?aff=oddtdtcreator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melanie Abas - Global mental health and the ambition to end HIV/AIDS

Sonia Johnson is Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry at UCL, Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit for Mental Health, and a Consultant Psychiatrist who has worked for over 20 years in an Early Intervention Service for Psychosis. Episode 2 of the 2024 BIGSPD podcast.
BIGSPD is the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder and their annual conference takes place in Belfast on 18-20 June 2024. Find out more at: https://bigspd.org.uk/conferences-and-events/annual-conference/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sonia Johnson - What does research tell us about how care and support for people with a 'personality disorder' diagnosis could be improved?

Welcome to episode 2 of the IoPPN Research Festival podcast. The festival takes place in South London on Wednesday 15th May 2024, and this year the theme is Origins and New Beginnings and there will be keynote talks from Melanie Abas, Emily Simonoff and Edgar Jones. 
We're focusing on origins in this second podcast episode, as we meet Edgar Jones, Professor of the History of Medicine and Psychiatry at the IoPPN. He was awarded a Wellcome grant to explore the clinical and research blueprint of the Maudsley Hospital from its foundation in 1916 to the immediate post-1945 years. In this 15 minute podcast conversation with André Tomlin, we'll hear about the founding of the Maudsley at the beginning of the 20th century and the turbulent times through which this hospital grew. 
You can hear more from Prof Jones at the 2024 IoPPN Research Festival, taking place on 15th May 2024: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ioppn-research-festival--tickets-856888826547?aff=oddtdtcreator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Edgar Jones - The roots of research excellence at the Maudsley-IoPPN

Welcome to a new episode of the BAP podcast. The British Association for Psychopharmacology are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2024. We'll be joining them in Birmingham for their annual summer meeting, which takes place from the 21st to the 24th of July.
This episode of the podcast features three people who've been involved with BAP for many years:
Anne Lingford-Hughes, Professor of Addiction Biology & Head of the Division of Psychiatry at Imperial College London, Belinda Lennox Professor of Psychiatry, Head of the University Department of Psychiatry in Oxford, and  Bill Deakin, Emeritus Professor at the Division of Neuroscience at Manchester University, and also Past President of the BAP. 
Along with Allan Young, this group of incredibly knowledgable and experienced academic clinicians have been invited to run the closing session of the conference this year, entitled: the past and future of the BAP.
Find out more about the BAP Summer Meeting and get your ticket now at: https://www.bap.org.uk/BAP2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anne Lingford-Hughes, Belinda Lennox & Bill Deakin

Professor Emily Simonoff is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN).
In this podcast, she speaks to André Tomlin from the Mental Elf about the new King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People https://www.kingsmaudsley.org
You can hear more from Prof Simonoff at the 2024 IoPPN Research Festival, taking place on 15th May 2024: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ioppn-research-festival--tickets-856888826547?aff=oddtdtcreator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fiona Kuhn-Thompson and Melanie Ball - An Open Letter

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