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2026 Webinar Series

2026 Programme Schedule and Recordings

Date

Topic

Speaker

Friday, 16th January, 2026

12.30PM

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Social Media Use and Mental Health

Dr Lizzy Winstone

NIHR School for Public Health Research Postdoctoral Launching Fellow,Centre for Public Health,
Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol

Friday, 23rd January, 2026

12:30pm

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Modular Interventions for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Dr Arnon Bentovim

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Friday, 30th January, 2026

12:30pm

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Preparing for the Brain Economy Decade: 2030 to 2040

Harris Eyre

Senior Fellow at Rice University and The University of Texas Medical Branch, Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company

Friday, 6th February, 2026

12:30pm

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Novel Methods of Identifying Suicidal Individuals

Assistant Professor Michael Bronstein

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota

Friday, 13th February, 2026

12:30pm

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Time Trends in Youth Mental Health

Prof Stephan Collishaw

Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health | Division of Psychological Medicine & Clinical Neurosciences | MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics  | Cardiff University

Friday, 20th February, 2026

12:30pm

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Eat. Treat. Repeat. Tailored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/ Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in Children and Adolescents

Dr Eric Dumont

Head of Department at Seyscentra Malden & Maastricht University

Friday, 27th February, 2026 12:30pm

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Scaling Single-Session Interventions to Bridge Gaps in Youth Mental Health Ecosystems

Assoc Prof Jessica Schleider

Associate Professor, Departments of Medical Social Sciences, Pediatrics, & Psychology

Director, Lab for Scalable Mental Health

Director of Digital Services, Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies

Northwestern University 

Friday, 6th March, 2026

12:30pm

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Rights-based School & Community Mental-health Policy

Dr Soumitra Pathare, MD, Director

Director, Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS, Pune

Friday, 13th March, 2026

12:30pm

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Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Schizophrenia

Prof Sarah Bergen

Senior Lecturer, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet. Sweden

Friday, 20th March, 2026

12:30pm

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Brain Mechanisms Linked to Social Stress, Environmental Risk and Resilience

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Director

Institute Director and Head of the Executive Board ,Mannheim, Germany

Friday, 27th March, 2026

12:30pm

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Violence Risk, Justice-involved Youth, Outcomes & Services

Prof Seena Fazel

Department of Psychiatry |University of Oxford | Warneford Hospital | Oxford 

Friday, 3rd April, 2026

12:30pm

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Suicide Crisis Syndrome

Prof Igor Galynker

Friday, 10th April, 2026

12:30pm

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Mental-health Systems & Financing for Youth Services

Prof Crick Lund

Co-Director, Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Friday, 17th April, 2026

12:30pm

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Dramatherapy

Eleanor Keiller

Doctoral Researcher, Youth Resilience Unit, Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health,
Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London .

Friday, 24th April, 2026

12:30pm

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Youth Social Prescribing for Mental Health: Research and Implications for Practice

Dr Daniel Hayes

Senior Research Fellow in Social Science
University College London, Behavioural Science and Health

Friday, 1st May, 2026

12:30pm

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Theatre, Creative Arts and Mental Health

Dr Maria Turri

Senior Lecturer, Co-director MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health
Queen Mary University of London

Friday, 8th May, 2026

12:30pm

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OCD, Digital CBT & Real-world Implementation for Teens

Prof Christian Rück

A Psychiatrist, Full Professor in Psychiatry and Research Group | Leader at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

Friday, 15th May, 2026

12:30pm

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Exploring the Relationship Between Decision-making and Social Media use Among Adolescents in South Africa.

Prof Eugene Davids

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Humanities Building, University of Pretoria

Friday, 22nd May, 2026

12:30pm

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: The Challenge of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) to Irish Public Policy.

Assoc Prof Nat O Connor

Assistant Professor of Social Policy at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin

Friday, 29th May, 2026

12:30pm

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4 Decades of Obesity and GLP-1

Prof Donal O'Shea

University College Dublin

Friday, 5th June, 2026

12:30pm

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Sabina Spielrein, Early Women Psychoanalysis as a Collective Force or Women Psychoanalysts who Emigrated to the US

Prof Klara Naszkowska

Adjunct Instructor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclair

Friday, 12th June, 2026

12:30pm

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Inflammation and Adolescent Depression

Assoc Prof Johnna Swartz

Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology,
University of California, Davis

Friday, 19th June, 2026

12:30pm

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Affective Neuroscience of Antidepressants in Adolescents

Prof Catherine Harmer

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford University

Friday, 26th June, 2026

12:30pm

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Parental Mental Illness and Child Depression

Dr Belinda Weber

DPhil (PhD) Experimental PsychologyGroup Leader at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Friday, 3rd July, 2026

12:30pm

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Latest Evidence on Behavioural Activation as Treatment for Depression in Adolescents

Prof Lina Gega

Professor of Mental Health, Hull York Medical School,
University of York

Friday, 10th July, 2026

12:30pm

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Perinatal Anxiety Disorders

Dr Susanne Schweizer

Research Director UNSW School of Psychology

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