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Professor James Kirkbride, Professor of Psychiatric and Social Epidemiology at UCL, will be talking on:

Rediscovering Lost Horizons: Charting a course for social equity in mental health

(Further details to be provided shortly)

Followed by a reception, with time for continuing discussions and networking.

Venue: STEM event space 3.1, Colchester campus

Agenda:

• 14:15-15:15: Annual lecture - Rediscovering Lost Horizons: Charting a course for social equity in mental health
• 15:15-16:00: drinks reception and time for continuing discussions and networking

About the speaker:

James Kirkbride is Professor of Psychiatric and Social Epidemiology, and joint Head of Research Department of Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research in the Division of Psychiatry, UCL. He is Director and Founder of the at UCL that explores the social and environmental determinants of psychosis and other mental health disorders. He is particularly interested in social inequalities in psychosis risk by person and place. He has received numerous research grants and fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, NIHR, UKRI, Mental Health Research UK and other funders.

He trained in geography at the University of Nottingham, supervised by Professor John Giggs (2002). He completed an M.Sc. in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2003) and his Ph.D. in Psychiatric Epidemiology under the supervision of Professor Peter Jones at the University of Cambridge (2007). He has held both a Sir Henry Wellcome and Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust, joining UCL for the latter in 2014. He became Professor of Psychiatric and Social Epidemiology at UCL in 2021.