Bridging the Gap: Neuroscience and Clinical Practice in Mental Health Workshop

• Keynote: Professor Jeremy Hall, Cardiff University: What has neuroscience ever done for us? 
• Dr Rebecca Lawson, University of Cambridge: Computational models for mental health  
• Professor Jonathan Cavanagh, University of Glasgow: Animal models for mental health 
• Dr Kate Martin, Wellcome Trust: Challenges and opportunities for lived experience in Neuroscience 
• Professor Rosalyn Moran, Professor Xiaosi Gu, Professor Deepak Srivastava, Professor Mark Walton: Feedback from Wellcome’s Expert advisory group
• Closing remarks: Dr Rachel Upthegrove, University of Birmingham

This workshop will also include breakout sessions to encourage conversations on various areas of neuroscience and clinical practice alongside lectures.  

Attendees will have the opportunity to present their work in lightning talks sessions on topics relevant to the workshop, specifically focussing on:

• cellular and animal models in mental health
• computational psychiatry
• computational neuroscience
• connections between clinical practice and neuroscience research
• lived experience in relation to basic science. 

This workshop is for researchers and clinicians at all career stages who are based at institutions in the UK.

We want to ensure that the broadest possible range of people contribute to and benefit from science's potential to change the world.  

In keeping with this, we are aiming for a diverse and representative group of delegates across institution, career stage, and discipline within neuroscience and/or clinical practice of relevance to mental health.  

We are requesting that anyone interested in attending this workshop first complete an Expression of Interest Form to help us select a cohort who can gain the most from and best fulfil the aims of this meeting.

We will select delegates on the following criteria:

• ensuring a range of institutions are represented
• ensuring a range of career stages are represented, including those at an early career stage
• ensuring a range of different disciplines are included. 

This is a one-day in-person workshop at Wellcome's offices in central London. For selected applicants who are unable to attend in person, we will have an online option available so that you will be able to take part. 

We would like to encourage in-person attendance at this workshop and to support this, we will be covering:  

• travel costs (for example train or bus fares) incurred to attend the workshop. Where possible, we encourage attendants to avoid using flights for their journeys and instead opt for greener modes of travel such as train, coach, or car-share.  
• overnight accommodation for attendees if a single railway journey to travel to the workshop venue would take you longer than three hours.  

Lunch and coffee breaks will be catered and we will be hosting a drinks reception. 

We will be able to provide a Certificate of Continuing Professional Developments (CPD) to workshop attendees.