Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, our original conference is now taking place as a festival of virtual events over the week of 19 – 23 April 2021. Details can be found below – and events signed-up for here.
BSL interpreters and live captioning will be available at all of these events
Monday 19 April
16.00-17.30 (BST) – Panel Discussion: Covid and Mental Health
Speakers:
Nadia Mbonde (New York University)
Visions of Black Futurity: The Politics of Self and Community Care at the Intersection of the Double Pandemic of Covid-19 and Police Brutality
Lois Liao (London School of Economics)
Do you see what I see?: Applying Pierre Bourdieu’s Theories to the Intersectional Research of Social Class, Race and Mental Health
Cassie Lovelock (London School of Economics)
Covid-19, Mental Health Carers and Increased Dependency; How are Carers Coping?
Peter Unwin & Joy Rooney (Worcester University)
Effects of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of a University-Based Group of Service Users and Carers
Tuesday 20 April
17.00-18.00 (BST) – Panel Discussion: Black Mental Health
Speakers:
Aude Konan (they/them) (Writer and Playwright)
Furaha Asani (she/her) (Researcher, Teacher and Mental Health Advocate)
Maya McFarlane (she/her) (Women’s and Non-Binary Officer of the CUSU BME Campaign)
18.30-20.00 (BST) – Session 1: Psychiatry and Other Systems
Speakers:
Paper 1: Wendy Burn & Adrian James
The Stigma of Mental Illness, A View From the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Paper 2: Ruth Smith and Anna Smith
Chemical Imbalance or Social Power Imbalance?
Paper 3: Neil Armstrong and Lamis Bayar
Power and Its Surprises: Locating and Dis-locating Asymmetries in Mental Healthcare
Paper 4: Simon Duffy
Peer Supporter as Leaders in Community Development
Local Journey 1: Wendy Joyce Clarke
Wednesday 21 April
14.30-16.00 (BST) – Session 2: Activism and Hope
Paper 5: Samuel Hosking
Lessons to be Learned from the Experience of Funding Cuts to Mental Health Services at Lifecraft
Paper 6: Keira Pratt-Boyden
Stigma and Social Power: Mental Health Activism in London
Paper 7: Liz Rotherham
Building Resilience
Paper 8: Annie Whilby
BP(h)D
18.30-20.00 (BST) – Keynote Session 1
Keynote: Imogen Tyler
Thursday 22 April
13.00-14.30 (BST) – Session 3: Social Inequalities and Justice
Paper 9: Rianna Walcott
On Mental Health Support Access and Treatment Outcomes for Black Patients
Paper 10: Peter Beresford
Challenging the Psychiatrisation of Politics and the Politics of Psychiatry
Paper 11: Helen Spandler
Restorative Justice: A Radical Aproach to Mental Health Reform?
Paper 12: Dorothy Gould
We Want Power Too: Perspectives from Service Users and Survivors from LGBTQ+ Communities
16.00-17.30 (BST) – Stigma and Survival
Paper 13: Sonji Shah and Nicole McIntosh
Peer Support and Abolition
Local Journey 2: Jo Fox
Paper 14: Helen Spandler
Hidden from History? Lesbian’s Experience of Psychiatry
Local Journey 3: Michael Brown
Friday 23 April
17.30-19.00 (BST) – Keynote Session 2
Keynote: Rai Waddingham
Listening to ‘Mad’ Voices in a Crazy World