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