MHP Research Summit 2026 Visual Notes

The MHP Research Summit was held at Sheffield United Football Club on 8th October 2026.

Some of our lived experience attendees captured their experience. 

Carina Edwards from Brain & Genomics produced the below mindmap covering the whole day. 

Sullivan Holderbach from ImmunoMIND created visual notes from a selection of sessions. Scroll down to see more about the following sessions:

• Artificial Intelligence and SMI Research
• Data Science Spotlight: MQ and DATAMIND
• Early Career Researcher Lightning Talks
• Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Flash Talks and panel
• Cynthia Fu plenary talk "Mind, Brain and AI: Towards Personalised and Mechanism-Based Treatments for Depression"

Artificial Intelligence and SMI Research

This session was a participatory roundtable on how AI might and should be used across the Mental Health Platform, co-led by Joanne Kenney (Metabolic Psychiatry) and Antonio Pardiñas (Brain & Genomics). 

Data Science Spotlight: MQ and DATAMIND

This session explored the growing role of wearable technology and mental health data science in research

Early Career Researcher Lightning Talks

This session showcased talks from six Early Career Researchers, all selected from abstract submissions by a panel of scientific experts .

PPIE Flash Talks

This session showcased three talks from PPIE Contributors from lived experience groups across the Hubs, selected from abstract submissions by a panel of lived experience experts. 

"Mind, Brain and AI: Towards Personalised and Mechanism-Based Treatments for Depression"

Cynthia Fu gave the final plenary talk. She is Professor at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, at Department of Psychology, University of East London and Psychoanalyst, Member at Institute of Psychoanalysis.