SPRiG Seminar Series
Our SPRiG Seminar Series provides an opportunity for SPRiG members to meet and discuss the latest research, critical approaches and service-user perspectives. They are free to attend and all are welcome. See here for a list of upcoming seminars.
We ask our speakers to share their slides with us where possible. Please note that some speakers prefer not to share their slides and/or the recording of their talk. Below you can find a list of previous SPRiG seminars, and links to download the slides.
2026
June 2026
Speaker: Prof Maria Ferrara MD PhD, Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Ferrara, Italy
Title: “Sex differences in psychosis: focus on women's care needs”
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May 2026
Speaker: Dr Giorgia Chiappalone, University of Bologna (Italy)
Title: “The Emilia-Romagna guidance for promoting health and well-being in people experiencing a first episode of psychosis or at high risk of psychosis”
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Speaker: Dr Alessandro Di Lisi and Prof Lorenzo Pelizza, University of Bologna (Italy)
Title: “Antipsychotic Medication in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis”
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April 2026
Speaker: Prof Emmanuelle Peters, Professor of Clinical Psychology and PICuP Director
Title: “STAR (Study of Trauma And Recovery): Effects of a Trauma-Focused therapy integrated with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis (TF-CBTp) for people with posttraumatic stress and psychosis symptoms”
2025
November 2025
Speaker: Prof Mark Hayward
Title: “Guided self-help CBT for voices delivered by Assistant Psychologists: findings from the GiVE3 trial”
October 2025:
Speakers: Prof Kathryn Greenwood, Charlotte Rawlinson, Julia Fountain
Title: “Beyond Psychosis; Coastal Mental Health issues and The Looking Forward Project”
September 2025
Speaker: Dr Tom Ward
Title: “Digital AVATAR therapy for distressing voices in psychosis: the phase2/3 AVATAR2 trial”
June 2025
(No seminar)
May 2025
(no seminar)
April 2025
Speaker: Dr Jo Allen
Title: “Family Interventions in Psychosis”
March 2025
Speaker: Dr Sarah Mansfield
Title: “Developments in CBT for Psychosis – Where are we now?”
February 2025
(no seminar)
January 2025
Speaker: Prof Craig Morgan
Title: “Psychoses: Global Perspectives”
2024
December 2024
Festive Showcase presentation 2024:
November 2024
Prof Sir Robin Murray: Professor of Psychiatric Research, King's College London
"An Aetiological approach to the Treatment of Psychosis"
October 2024
Speaker: Dr Jasper Palmier-Claus
Title: "Oral health and psychosis: The Mouth Matters in Mental Health Trial"
September 2024
Speaker: Dr Eleanor Longden:
Title: "The Talking With Voices trial"
March 2024
Speaker: Prof James Stone
Title: “Beyond dopamine – where are we now with the glutamate theory of psychosis?”
February 2024
Prof Filippo Varese: Professor of Clinical Psychology, NIHR Advanced Fellow and Director of the Manchester Complex Trauma and Resilience Research Unit, University of Manchester
“Using EMDR to address the trauma-related needs of clients supported by Early Intervention services: Emerging evidence from FEP and ARMS studies in the UK”
January 2024
Prof Fiona Gaughran: Professor of Physical Health and Clinical Therapeutics in Psychiatry
“Physical health in people with major mental illness”
2023
Festive showcase 2023
Various speakers presenting their research projects.
October 2023
Dr Shubulade Smith CBE, Consultant Psychiatrist, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists:
“Inequality in mental health research and how to address it”
September 2023
Prof Katherine Berry: “Culturally-adapted family intervention (CaFI) for African and Caribbean people diagnosed with psychosis and their families.”
June 2023
Dr Simon Evans, University of Surrey
“Brain structural correlates of Insight in Psychosis”
to view a recording of the talk
May 2023
Prof Belinda Lennox, University of Oxford
“Autoimmune psychosis: what clinicians needs to know”
April 2023
Prof Kathryn Greenwood
“Evaluating Early Youth Engagement in First Episode Psychosis services from a Diverse Clinician, Service user and Service perspective: Learnings from the EYE-2 Randomized Controlled Trial”
March 2023
Prof Sandra Bucci
“Digital markers for predicting psychosis relapse”
January 2023
Dr Clio Berry
“Preferences for psychological therapies for voice-hearing experiences”
2022
December 2022
Professor Mark Hayward
“Increasing access to CBT for clients who are distressed by hearing voices: The GiVE3 trial and an update from the Sussex Voices Clinic”
to view a recording of the talk
October 2022
Dr Katherine Newman Taylor
“CBT for psychosis – Integrating attachment principles”
June 2022
Dr Amy Hardy
“Update from the STAR trial”
April 2022
Dr Pavo Orepic
“Voices and robots: Simulating auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH) through robotically-induced self-other voice confusion”
March 2022
Prof Mark Hayward, Dr Brad Hall, Sofia Loizou
“Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic”
February 2022
Prof Phillipa Garety, Prof Kathy Greenwood
“Findings from the SlowMo Trial”
January 2022
Dr Dominic Oliver
“Predicting Psychosis: The transdiagnostic risk calculator”
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2021
2020