The Trust’s Research & Innovation team will be holding its annual conference at 14:00 on Wednesday, 1st November to showcase all aspects of healthcare research, including conducting studies and establishing academic partnerships.
The event, which is usually attended by hundreds of people, is open to all staff, service users, carers and members of the public. It will also utilise a hybrid format of in-person sessions and online attendance for those who are unable to physically make it on the day.
The half-day conference provides a unique platform of short-and-sharp presentations on a varied range of research and innovation projects undertaken at ELFT.
Please add the date – Wednesday, 1st November – to your diaries. We will be providing more information about the location, how to register and guest speakers in due course.
In the meantime, take a look at the Research & Innovation @ ELFT Conference web page for information about previous years’ conferences, including clips from individual presentations.
If you have any questions about our conference before more information is confirmed, please email elft.researchoffice@nhs.net.
About Research & Innovation at ELFT
Research at ELFT has influenced public and professional debates on policy and clinical issues in mental health care on local, national and international levels. The Trust has led over £20m in competitively awarded research grants and been shortlisted for the HSJ Award Clinical Research Impact for using DIALOG+ to improve patient outcomes in community mental health services.
ELFT has a history of collaborative work with universities, including partnering with:
- Queen Mary, University of London on the research Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, a designated World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre, and the only one specifically for 'mental health services development' in the world.
- Maltepe University in Istanbul, Turkey, to develop a master programme (MA) in Clinical Psychology with Body Psychotherapy Certificate, the first of its kind in Europe and Asia.
- City, University of London, to foster an award-winning lived experience advisory group.
- University of Cambridge, to tackle major areas of unmet health needs – including frailty, long-term medical conditions and narrowing health inequities.