Friday, May 30, 2025
Clarice Pears Building, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Friday, May 30, 2025
Clarice Pears Building, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Innovations in Mental Health Care: Celebrating Collaboration Conference – 30th May 2025
About the event:
The Psychosis Research Group based in the School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow are hosting this free event to acknowledge, share and celebrate the wonderful ongoing collaborations we have with multidisciplinary colleagues from the NHS, the third sector and colleagues from communities with expertise by experience. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Date: 30th May 2025
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Location: School of Health and Wellbeing, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow.
Programme Highlights:
Across this event we will share our work including the following topic areas:
In addition to having a range of speakers from Glasgow, we’re thrilled to welcome guest speakers:
Professor Daniel Freeman – University of Oxford
Dr Felicity Waite - University of Oxford
Who should attend?
This event is open to anyone interested in psychosis research, care, and lived experience. We hope that the day will be a wonderful opportunity to bring together:
- Mental health nurses
- Social workers
- Psychiatrists
- Clinical psychologists
- Allied Health Professionals
- Support workers
- Mental health workers in NGO settings
- People with Expertise by their lived or living Experience (EbE) of mental health problems
- Supporters of someone with mental health problems
We hope the day offers not just space to hear from speakers, but also opportunities for discussion, reflection, connection, and networking - whether you're attending as a clinician, researcher, expert by experience, or some combination of all three.
Provisional Schedule
Our schedule for the day is still under construction:
0930 Registration
1000 Welcome
1015 Session 1 - Involving people with expertise by experience
1115 Coffee / Tea
1130 Session 2 - Technological Innovations
1230 Lunch
1330 Session 3 - Celebrating collaborations with our NHS Colleagues
1445 Coffee / Tea
1500 Session 4 - Dreaming our future work with you
1615 Closing remarks
We’ll update with more detail as soon as we can and that update will also include a point of contact to let us know of any dietary requirements you might have. If you have any support needs that would enable you to attend, we’ll ask you to reach out to us then too. We’re already looking forward to seeing you all on the 30th May and welcoming you to what we hope will be a rewarding, interesting, and exciting day!
Clarice Pears Building
90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB United Kingdom
Cycle Provision
There are approximately 1800 cycle spaces provided across the University campus and are within a short walk of the School of Health and Wellbeing. Cycle storage spaces cannot be reserved. Cyclists remain responsible for the security of their bicycles at all times, whether externally or internally stored, and should provide their own locking devices and insurance cover.
If cycling/walking to or from the building through the campus South of University Avenue, you may pass through some gates. Please take note of the gate opening times and accessibility, details found on the University website.
There are 88 cycle parking spaces located in Infirmary Way and University Place. The number of these aligns with BREEAM TRA-03 Cyclist Facilities and a site-specific travel assessment. There are two bicycle shelters on the North East side of the Clarice Pears.
Local Public Transport
The closest low-level train station is Partick, and walking from Partick train station takes 15 minutes.
The nearest subway stops are Hillhead and Kelvinhall, both a 6-7 min walk away.
The nearest bus stops for the building are on Byres Road, University Avenue, Dumbarton Road, and Great Western Road.
University Avenue
Byres Road
Dumbarton Road
Great Western Road
First Bus Services
4 / 4A
8, 89, 90
2, 3, 77
6 / 6A
Stagecoach Services
X25A
X76, X77
McGills Services
17, 100
CityBus Services
15
Taxi
A taxi rank is situated on Byres Road, at the entrance to Ashton Lane. The closest drop off/collection point to the building is University Place.