IoPPN Research Festival 2025 'Bridging disciplines, brain to behaviour'

The afternoon featured 3 keynote talks, as well as 20 quick-fire, five-minute talks covering a huge breadth of topics including:

• how to make ethical AI in healthcare
• improving outcomes following neurotrauma
• an exploration of health inequities for Black and Asian users of mental health services
• the impact of legacy giving at IoPPN
• uncovering non-motor symptoms in Huntington’s disease
• the power of belief

You can read more about each presenter and their topic here.

Full line-up of speakers and topics:

Part 1

Professor Matthew Hotopf, Professor Paolo Deluca & Dr Darren Williams Welcome

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Professor of Developmental Psychology ‘RE-STAR – A multidisciplinary adventure in participatory translational science’

Dr Quinton Deeley, Senior Lecturer ‘The Power of Belief’

Dr Sian Oram, Reader in Women’s Mental Health ‘Creativity, Collaboration, and Coercive Control: Rethinking Research with Survivors’

Dr Jose Manuel Valera Bermejo, Clinical Research Fellow ‘Non-motor symptoms in Huntington’s disease’

Anna Verey, Research Associate ‘Sexual dysfunction in male UK military personnel deployed to Afghanistan: the ADVANCE cohort study’

Dr Raquel Iniesta, Reader in Statistical Learning for Precision Medicine ‘How to Make an Ethical AI for Healthcare’

Uwe Drescher, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience ‘Unraveling the protective role of IL-10 in Neuro-inflammation: Insights from a Genetic Mouse Model relevant to Autism’

Andrea Ulrichsen, PhD student and Research Assistant ‘Can sleep predict the ups and downs of bipolar disorder?’

Dr Serena Mitchell, Research Integrity Manager, Research Governance, Ethics & Integrity ‘Research Integrity at King’s’

Dr Aminul Ahmed, Senior Lecturer ‘Neurotrauma – can we do better?’

Ayla Pollmann, PhD student ‘Open Science in PhD Research’

Dr Christoph Mueller, Senior Clinical Lecturer ‘Data, Dementia, and Drugs: What can we learn from real-world patient records?’

Part 2

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Professor Juliet Foster, Dean of Education ‘The ‘whole university’ approach to mental health and wellbeing: a socicocultural turn and a research challenge’

Dr Josephine Ocloo, Senior Research Fellow ‘A Life Less Safe: exploring health inequities for Black and Asian users of mental health services through qualitative research and film’

Julia Brown, Head of Legacy & In-Memory Giving ‘Will Power: the impact of legacy giving at the IoPPN’

Dr Franziska Denk, Reader in Neuroscience ‘Research Integrity - beyond the obvious’

Dr Paris Lalousis, Lecturer ‘Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: From Prediction to Personalisation’

Matthew Grubb, Professor in Neuroscience ‘Sharing is caring: Open Data, better science’

Claire Ballard, Research Assistant ‘What about the parents? The OPTIMA programme – supporting families of children waiting for clinical assessment’

Dr Devin Terhune, Reader in Experimental Psychology ‘Nitrous oxide induces hallucinations by overweighting perceptual priors’

Dr Polly Radcliffe, Senior Research Fellow ‘Navigating care for women who use and are in treatment for using drugs in the perinatal period: Outcomes from the Stepping Stones Study’

Dr Deepak Khuperkar, Research Associate ‘Crossing scales in neuroscience-from single molecules to brain function’

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Kate Tchanturia, Professor of Psychology in Eating Disorders ‘Autism and Eating Disorders’

Corinne Houart, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology ‘Closing remarks’