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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Talks:
Tuesday 4 November 2025
Social Prescribing: a passing phase or a foundational pillar of the new Neighbourhood Health Service?
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Daisy Fancourt (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
From co-creation to implementation: developing and scaling an intervention to promote healthy sleep in adolescents
Date: 4 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Anneke Vandendriessche (Ghent University)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry),
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
How do screens impact adolescents' sleep? A theoretical review and experimental insights into bedtime displacement
Date: 11 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Serena Bauducco (Örebro University)
Organisers:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry),
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford)
Contexts and Confounders in Clinical Practice, in parables, and as a Path to novel drug discovery
Date: 18 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker
:
Professor Stephen Friend (University of Oxford / 4YouandMe.org)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Accessibility and effectiveness of early intervention sleep programmes for adolescents
Date: 18 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Faith Orchard (University of East Anglia)
Organisers:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry),
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust),
Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)
Improving access to help with sleep in youth mental health: A system-wide implementation programme
Date: 25 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Dr Rebecca Rollinson (Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry),
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host:
Gaby Illingworth (Department of Psychiatry)
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Oxford Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics Symposium
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Naomi Wray (Univerity of Oxford)
Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)
Oxford Neuropsychiatric Genomics and Multiomics Symposium
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Cashing in on Network Psychiatry
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Dr Giovanni Briganti (University of Mons, Belgium)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)
How adolescents seek and offer support within friendships: insights from lived experiences and hypothetical situations
Date: 2 December 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Tanya Manchanda (Department of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers:
Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry),
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host:
Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Karl Marlowe (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Wednesday 7 January 2025
Who Is Afraid of Mind Reading? The Science, Ethics and Policy of Decoding Thought
Date: 7 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Marcello Ienca
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA