Public lectures
Our public lecture series features talks from internationally acclaimed academics in the field of youth mental health.
The Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health has strong links with world-leading academics from around the globe. This series showcases experts from across the UK, as well as the Centre's international collaborators.
The lectures are held quarterly and last for one hour, followed by a short Q&A.
The virtual lectures are free to attend.
The next Wolfson lecture will be on the 5th of February, we will welcome Professor Michael Ungar to speak on:
Nurturing Resilience: Nine Ways Families, Schools, and Communities can Help Children Thrive
Previous Lectures
You can watch all of our previous lectures on our Youtube channel.
- Dr Aideen Maguire - Mental ill-health, self-harm and suicide in Northern Ireland: new evidence from linked administrative data
- Professor Vikram Patel - School interventions for promoting adolescent mental health: A case study from India
- Professor Argyris Stringaris - Fundamental problems in the evidence base of adolescent depression treatment with Professor Argyris Stringaris
- Professor Thalia Eley - Longitudinal explorations of developmental and treatment outcomes in anxiety and depression in adolescents and young adults.
- Dr Daniel Pine -
Anxiety in Children and Adolescents - Finding Help in a Time of Stress. - Dr Kirsten Asmussen - What works to improve the lives of England’s most vulnerable children.
- Dr Rhiannon Evans - Care-experienced children and young people’s interventions to improve mental health well-being outcomes: a systematic review.
- Professor Sarah Skeen and Mr Tatenda Mawoyo - Helping young people thrive.
- Dr. Erik Simmons - The PLAY Collaborative: an Implementation Science Initiative to expand the reach and quality of play-based father-engaged home-visiting to promote early childhood development and prevent violence.
- Professor Katherine Shelton - The mental health and neuropsychological profile of children adopted from care: Support needs in the context of family life.
- Dr Daniel Michelson - Developing and implementing adolescent mental health interventions in low-resource contexts: Lessons learned from the ‘Premium for Adolescents’ (PRIDE) programme in India.
- Professor Glyn Lewis - Vulnerability to stressors, reinforcement learning and depression.
- Professor Lucie Cluver - Parenting in Emergencies: Evidence and innovation to support children and their caregivers.
We offer free public lectures and Clinical Spotlights to bring together the young people's mental health community. See what events we have coming up on our Eventbrite.