NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Event Date: 30/10/2025 to 30/10/2025 Venue: Strathclyde University, Technology & Innovation Centre

This year we are once again hosting a hybrid event, with the opportunity to join us in person at the venue, or virtually online

Anyone with an interest or involved with mental health research in Scotland is welcome to attend. We are delighted to announce that Tom Arthur MSP (Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing) will be joining us to give the opening address.

This is a free event. To book your place, register to attend via Eventbrite.

Speakers include

Prof Alan Simpson, King's College London
Prof Katherine Newman-Taylor, University of Southampton
Jenny Revel, NHS Lothian
Kris Deering, University of Exeter
Prof Thanos Karatzias, Edinburgh Napier University
Betina Nair, University of Oxford
Dr Alasdair Rooney, NHS Lothian
Dr Filippo Queirazza, University of Glasgow
Suzanne Syrett, University of Glasgow
Catherine Deith, NRS Mental Health
Dr Donald MacIntyre, NHS Lothian / NRS Mental Health

Exhibitor stands

To book an exhibitor stand, please complete the exhibitor form and send to Lisa Martin. There is no charge for this.

Further information

Lunch and refreshments will be provided for our in-person delegates free of charge.

Delegate papers can be found using the links below:

After the event we invite you to submit your feedback using our online feedback form.

Programme

9.00

Registration and orientation

9.30

Dr Donald MacIntyre

Welcome

9.40

Tom Arthur MSP, Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing

Opening address

Session Chair:

Donald MacIntyre

9:50

Suzy Syrett

Why developing national guidelines, support, training and more for Scotland’s mental Health Peer Researchers benefits us all

10:20

Comfort break and poster presentations

11.00

Professor Alan Simpson

Surveillance-based technologies in inpatient mental healthcare setting: A systemic review of their use and impact

Session Chairs:

Andrew Gumley & Ashleigh Duthie

11.30

Jenny Revel

Constant Observation to Continuous Intervention: Enhancing Patient Safety and Experience Through Collective Intelligence and Therapeutic Relationships

Professor Katherine Newman-Taylor and Dr Sean Harper

Innovating acute mental health care in Scotland: The attachment-based wards project

Kris Deering

Ontological insecurity of inattentiveness: Conceptualising how risk management practices negatively impact on patient recovery when admitted to acute psychiatric hospitals

Followed by a panel discussion

12.45

Lunch and poster presentations

2.00

Betina Nair

Attracting commercial trials to the UK through the NIHR Mental Health Translational Collaboration Mission

Dr Alasdair Rooney and Dr Filippo Queirazza

Improving access to mood disorders research in Scotland"

Followed by a panel discussion

Session Chair:

Nagore Penades

3.00

Research Register Launch

Catherine Deith

3.30

Comfort break and poster presentations

4.00

Professor Thanos Karatzias

Innovations in complex PTSD Treatment: From Theory to Personalised Care

Session Chair:

Sean Harper

4.30

Dr Donald MacIntyre

Poster prizes & closing remarks

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