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imh2011: a unique event

Running over two days in Exeter, this peer conference will focus on how technology and the internet are changing and shaping mental health and wellbeing, including delivery of care. We have drawn together those leading the way in this area, including people with lived experience, practitioners and clinicians and researchers.

Through a focus on participation, collaboration and learning, imh2011 will be thought-provoking, inspirational and challenging.

Our aim is to make mh2011 an attendee-centric event, placing the attendee’s learning as the priority. The conference will not just be a place for ‘experts’ to broadcast information but also a time for attendees, or rather participants to begin in engaging with the content and with each other.

On the day, each of the keynote presentations will be followed directly by a ‘people-to-people’ session. Rather than listening to a few questions, where only the speaker appears to learn, our format will be a little different. In your conference pack, there will be a post-presentation question guide. You will be encouraged to use this and actively engage those around you in discussion and analysis. Our facilitators will gather the best conversations, and curate views and thoughts to bring to the speaker, and to each other, in a real time crowd debate.

While the list ticket price is £180 for the two days using the discount code EBSD60will bring that price to just £80.

New to the programme will be a networking event in partnership with the University of Warwick. This satellite event will focus on bringing together a network of experts (experts of any kind) to support their NIHR Programme Development Grant work on The Internet, young people, mental health and chronic illness

Conference speaker highlights include:

Kayla Kavanagh will speak of the highs and and lows of living with BPD, and how creativity through music and technology has “saved her life”.

Professor Sonia Livingstone and Dr Anke Görzig will present findings of the EU Kids Online Project.

Professor Andy Phippen is Professor of Social Responsibility in Information Technology at the School of Management, Plymouth Business School and will present on world’s largest single study of the use of sexting by young as well as exploring ethics and the role of the Internet as a research environment, measurement tool and a place to run interventions.

Professor Chris Williams is Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry based at the University of Glasgow. Chris will speak about using the Internet to support people struggling with eating disorders Bulimia and anorexia nervosa and eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS)

Dr Christabel Owens and Dr Siobhan Sharkey (Peninsula College of Medicine and Medical) will present on SharpTalk, an experimental online community that explored engagement and collaborative learning between NHS professionals and young people who self-harm.

Professor John Powell, University of Warwick, will be speaking on the role of networked technologies in supporting young people with mental health problems

Go to http://events.mh20.net/conference/ to find out more and to book on. Don’t forget to use the code EBSD60 at the checkout to bring the price down to £80