We hold regular seminars and events to inform people about our pioneering research which is organised along our research themes.
Booking information is given under each event. If you have any queries, please contact us at research@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Date: Friday 25th October, 9.30am to 4.30pm (registration from 9.00am)
Hosted by Dr Robert Marx and Dr Clara Strauss
Venue: Friend's Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF
Please come along to Sussex Mindfulness Centre's annual one-day conference
New Frontiers in Mindfulness-Based Approaches
Conference highlights:
Keynote: Rebecca Crane (Director of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University) on 'What makes an effective mindfulness teacher?'
Keynote: Jason Gonzalez (The Mindful Leader programme at QUB Leadership Institute) on 'Building a Compassionate Culture in a Competitive Environment'
Workshop: Bridgette O’Neill (Trainer, Sussex Mindfulness Centre) and
Robert Marx (Co-lead, Sussex Mindfulness Centre) on 'Compassionate approaches to mindfulness: Mindful Self-Compassion & Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living’
The conference is free for SMC advocates and for current/recent Sussex Partnership service users, SPFT Staff and SMC Trust Approved Teachers and SMC researcher staff and students. The conference is £90 for other attendees. You will be provided with a Continued Professional Development certificate.
Tickets bookable via Eventbrite
Tea and coffee will be provided. Lunch is not provided.
Follow Sussex Mindfulness Centre on Twitter: @SMCmindful_SPFT #SMC2019 for live tweeting
For any queries, please contact: smc@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Tuesday 8 October 2019, 10.00am-3.00pm, Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ.
Hosted by Sam Robertson, Lead for Service User and Carer Involvement in Research.
If you would like more information about research involvement, please contact us: involvementinresearch@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
There is free, but limited, parking on site and in neighbouring streets.
The programme will be posted here when available.
Places are free but limited, so please book your place here
Monday 9 September 2019
10.00am– 1.00pm
Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital Site, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ
Hosted by Professor Sube Banerjee.
You are very welcome to attend this free seminar showing a range of dementia research taking place in Sussex at the Centre for Dementia Research Studies and Dementia Research Unit.
There is free but limited parking on site. Parking is free around neighbouring streets.
The programme will be posted here when available.
Monday 1 July 2019, 10.00am – 2.30pm
Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ. Hosted by Dr Mark Hayward and Dr Sam Robertson
How do we do research?
Hosted by Dr Mark Hayward and Dr Sam Robertson
Our Research Network Conference provides an annual opportunity for members to hear about the range of research taking place within the Trust.
The theme this year is how we capture information and why we choose the methods we do? Our researchers will talk about various methods, ie from quantitative research to participatory action research, plus examples of drug trials for dementia and a trial of a psychological therapy.
More details will be posted here, when we have finalised them, but in the meantime:
Contact: research@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
T: 0300 304 0088
4.00pm – 5.00pm, Wednesday 26th June 2019
Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Hove. BN3 7HZ
Speaker: Aikaterini Rammou, University of Sussex and SPFT
For more details about SPRiG events please contact Jamie Moffatt: jm837@sussex.ac.uk
Date: Tuesday 18th June, 4pm-5pm
Location: Room 1A6, Pevensey 1 Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH
Speaker: Dr Sam Robertson, Lead Service User and Care Involvement, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Title: “Does developing a personal narrative within a peer-led programme contribute to living a meaningful life?”
Speaker: Dr Sam Robertson, Lead Service User and Care Involvement, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trus
Sussex Psychosis Research interest Group (SPRiG): www.sussex.ac.uk/spriglab
For more details about SPRiG events please contact Jamie Moffatt: jm837@sussex.ac.uk
or contact: research@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
4.00pm – 5.00pm, Wednesday 5th June 2019
Speaker: Sascha Altman DuBrul, Co-founder of the Icarus Project
Please note that this talk will be held at the University of Sussex: Room 1A6, Pevensey1, University of Sussex, Falmer BN1 9RH
For more details about SPRiG events please contact Jamie Moffatt: jm837@sussex.ac.uk
4.00pm – 5.00pm, Wednesday 24th April 2019
Location –Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Millview Hospital Site, Hove. BN3 7HZ.
Speaker: Akiko Hart, Chair of ISPS UK, Committee Member of Hearing Voices Network and Hearing Voices Project Manager in Mind in Camden.
Please note that parking is free but limited at Millview hospital site. But there is free parking along the road off the hosptial site (Nevill Avenue). There's no need to book, you can just turn up, but it would be helpful if you let Abigail Wright know if you’d like to attend: a.c.wright@sussex.ac.uk
For more details about SPRiG events please contact Jamie Moffatt: jm837@sussex.ac.uk
or contact: research@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Tuesday 6 November 2018, 10.00am-4.00pm, Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ.
Hosted by Sam Robertson, Lead for Service User and Carer Involvement in Research.
If you would like more information about research involvement, please contact us: involvementinresearch@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
See the presentations from the day here
Recovery and Involvement - a presentation from Sussex Partnership's research involvement team
Enriching experience peer working programme to enhance discharge from acute hospital
Recovery College developments internationally
Exploring professional and organisational resistance to user involvement in mental health services
Wednesday 17 October 2018, 9.00am-12.30pm (timings to be confirmed), Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ.
Hosted by Professor Hugo Critchley and Dr Neil Harrison.
Come and join us for a morning of fascinating talks on the latest in research exploring links between the mind and body.
Talks to include:
‘Applying insights from immunopsychiatry to better understand ME and chronic fatigue syndrome’ – Professor Neil Harrison
‘Interoceptive awareness and Autism’ – James Mulcahy
Patient and Carer involvement in brain-body research – Dr Sam Robertson
‘Strategies for developing clinical applications in brain-body research’ – Professor Hugo Critchley
More details to be posted here and via Eventbrite when available.
please reserve your place here.
Date: Friday 21st September, 9.30am to 4.30pm
Hosted by Dr Robert Marx and Dr Clara Strauss
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7 HY
Please come along to Sussex Mindfulness Centre's annual one-day conference
Community Mindfulness: Staying connected, local and accessible
This event is free to SPFT staff/current and recent service users/advocates and trainers. £50 for all other attendees. Tea and coffee will be provided
To book your place and for any queries, please contact: smc@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Follow Sussex Mindfulness Centre on Twitter: @SMCmindful_SPFT
Wednesday 5 September 2018
2.00– 4.00pm
Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School Teaching Building, University of Sussex, Falmer BN1 9RY
Hosted by Professor Sube Banerjee.
A day of a range of research taking place in Sussex at the Centre for Dementia Research Studies and Dementia Research Unit.
We were thrilled that Professor Robert Abrams, Professor old-age psychiatry at Weill Cornell College, New York, gave the keynote lecture in the afternoon. Talks include: Introduction to developments - Professor Sube Banerjee. Cognitive screens to assess decisional capacity - Professor Robert Abrams. Time for Dementia - Dr Stephanie Daley. STRiDE: Strengthening responses to dementia in developing countries - Dr Nick Farina. Attentional control in individauls experiencing mild cognitive impairment - Claire Lancaster (PhD Student). The experience of the everyday life of dementia working carers - Rachel Clarke (PHD Student).
See following presentations from the day:
Claire Lancaster: Attentional control in the earliest stages of cognitive decline
Friday 15 June 2018, 1.30-4.30pm, Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ.
Hosted by Professor Sam Cartwright-Hatton and Dr Helen Startup who lead the Flourishing Families Clinic
Come and hear more about the new Flourishing Families Clinic currently running in NHS primary care services and how we can best support parents with anxiety disorders
Presentations:
Introduction from Dr Adrian Whittington
Prof Sam Cartwright-Hatton and Dr Helen Startup – Introduction to the Flourishing Families Clinic
Dr Fiona Challacombe – Supporting Parenting in the Perinatal Period
Dr Pete Lawrence – What do families want and when would they want it? (A qualitative investigation with adolescents with anxiety disorders, and their mothers, who themselves had perinatal anxiety disorders)
Abby Dunn – Patients who are parents: A missed opportunity to engage?
Dr Helen Startup – Future directions of the Flourishing Families Clinic
Including a panel discussion
Places are free, but limited, please book your place here
In the meantime – if you would like to know more about the Flourishing Families Clinic, please read page 10 of our Research Magazine Issue 8 here
or email: FlourishingFamilies.Clinic@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
or telephone: 0300 304 0088
Tuesday 12 June 2018, 10.00am – 2.30pm
Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ. Hosted by Dr Mark Hayward
The Research Network conference provides an annual opportunity for members to hear about the range of research taking place within the Trust and the vital role of patient and carer involvement across all our studies. The theme this year will be our Clinics - bringing research and new treatments directly to patients, while developing the evidence base for these interventions. We now have four Clinics:
Sussex Voices Clinic - for people who hear distressing Voices
The OCD Clinic - for people with obsessive compulsive disorder
The Immunopsychiatry Clinic - looking at inflammation to develop therapies for people with depression
The Flourishing Families Clinic - looking at improving mental health of parents and children, by addressing the specific challenges associated with parenting combined addition complexities of a mental health problem.
Please book your place here
Contact: research@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Tuesday 17 April 2018, Lecture Theatre, Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ.
Hosted by Professor Hugo Critchley
This seminar was filmed and available to view here
Talks:
Sophie Betka - Can oxytocin modulate interoception in alcohol users?
James Mulcahy – ADIE: Aligning dimensions of interoception in the brain to prevent anxiety in autism
Sarah Fielding-Smith – The ViBE Study: Voice Hearing in Borderline Personality Disorder Explored.Kristy Themelis - Investigating mechanisms of chronic pain and fatigue
Jessica Eccles: Altering dynamics of autonomic processing therapy (not available to view after this event)
Yoko Nagai – A non-pharmaceutical therapy for epilepsy (not available to view after this event)
You can download posters and presentations from past events here.
Presentations:
Research Presentation: Ann Beales
Research Overview: Dr Mark Hayward
We looked at research which:
Quality of life in family carers of people with dementia (C-DEMQOL): Dr Stephanie Daley
Caring for young people - engagement and help-seeking studies: Dr Kathryn Greenwood
NHS staff wellbeing: Dr Clara Strauss
POSTERS
Presentations:
Posters:
The Time for Dementia team has produced a film about how this initiative is transforming dementia care for patients and carers. See it here.
Time for Dementia is an education programme led by Professor Sube Banerjee of Brighton and Sussex Medical School with the aim of changing professional attitudes to dementia and transforming care for patients.
Time for Dementia enables students to understand what it’s like to have an illness that’s not treatable in a single episode, by providing long-term exposure to a family with a long-term illness such as dementia. Visiting people at home provides learning that cannot be taught in the classroom and highlights the role of the carer who is supporting the person with dementia, looking at the whole picture, not just the person with dementia. We hope to improve not only knowledge and attitudes but also empathy by enabling students to put themselves in the shoes of the person and family with dementia.
Time for Dementia is a collaboration between Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Universities of Brighton, Sussex and Surrey, Surrey and Borders NHS Partnership and the Alzheimer’s Society.
Thank you to patients, carers, students and staff who are taking part in the study and also to those who took part in the film.
Continuing to be me - recovering a life with a diagnosis of dementia. Paper written by Dr Stephanie Daley and colleagues, showing how many people have found ways of living a meaningful and fulfilling life with a diagnosis of dementia.
Hosted by Dr Bree Macdonald, Clinical Lead for Acute Services in Coastal West Sussex, Lead for Psychological Therapies in Crisis Teams in West Sussex (Facilitator of the CORE model within Sussex Partnership)
With national study findings from University College London and local feedback from our crisis teams.
Presentations: