| Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
| Friday, 16th January, 2026 12.30PM |
Social Media Use and Mental Health |
Dr Lizzy Winstone NIHR School for Public Health Research Postdoctoral Launching Fellow,Centre for Public Health, |
| Friday, 23rd January, 2026 12:30pm |
Modular Interventions for Child and Adolescent Mental Health |
Dr Arnon Bentovim Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist |
| Friday, 30th January, 2026 12:30pm |
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 |
Novel Methods of Identifying Suicidal Individuals |
Assistant Professor Michael Bronstein Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota |
| Friday, 13th February, 2026 12:30pm |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Suicide Crisis Syndrome |
Prof Igor Galynker |
| Friday, 10th April, 2026 12:30pm |
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 |
Dramatherapy |
Eleanor Keiller Doctoral Researcher, Youth Resilience Unit, Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health, |
| Friday, 24th April, 2026 12:30pm |
Youth Social Prescribing for Mental Health: Research and Implications for Practice |
Dr Daniel Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Social Science |
| Friday, 1st May, 2026 12:30pm |
Theatre, Creative Arts and Mental Health |
Dr Maria Turri Senior Lecturer, Co-director MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health |
| Friday, 8th May, 2026 12:30pm |
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 |
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 |
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 |
4 Decades of Obesity and GLP-1 |
Prof Donal O'Shea University College Dublin |
| Friday, 5th June, 2026 12:30pm |
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 |
Inflammation and Adolescent Depression |
Assoc Prof Johnna Swartz Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology, |
| Friday, 19th June, 2026 12:30pm |
Affective Neuroscience of Antidepressants in Adolescents |
Prof Catherine Harmer Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford University |
| Friday, 26th June, 2026 12:30pm |
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 |
Latest Evidence on Behavioural Activation as Treatment for Depression in Adolescents |
Prof Lina Gega Professor of Mental Health, Hull York Medical School, |
| Friday, 10th July, 2026 12:30pm |
Perinatal Anxiety Disorders |
Dr Susanne Schweizer Research Director UNSW School of Psychology |