Hearing the Voice have been working with members of the voice-hearing community to develop Understanding Voices – a new website that helps people find clear, balanced and comprehensive information about voice-hearing.
After two years of collaboration and consultation, we are delighted to announce that Understanding Voices will be launching this September, and warmly invite you to join us for the launch event at The Assembly Rooms, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
'Hearing Voices: What do we need to know' is a half-day symposium that will bring voice-hearers, their families and allies together with academics, activists and mental health professionals in order to explore future directions in voice-hearing research, advocacy, policy and clinical practice. There will be short presentations from people with diverse experiences and perspectives, after which there will be an opportunity for discussion. The event will be followed by a wine reception.
The lauch is free to attend, but we kindly ask that you register through Eventbrite for catering purposes.
A number of travel bursaries are available for peer support groups for people who hear voices and individuals with personal experience of voice-hearing. Please contact Becca Doggwiler for more information.
We look forward to celebrating this milestone event with you!
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Meet the speakers:
- Steph Allan (University of Glasgow) - Doctoral researcher with an interest in digital and participatory research in psychosis.
- Dawn Edge (University of Manchester) - Researcher working on the interrelationship between mental and physical health and wellbeing.
- Akiko Hart (Mind in Camden) - London Hearing Voices Project Manager, Committee Member of the English Hearing Voices Network and Chair of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis, UK.
- James Kirkbride (University College London) - Psychiatric epidemiologist interested in social and environmental determinants of psychosis.
- Colin King - Mental health survivor, practitioner, commissioner, trainer, teacher and researcher.
- Sarah Parry (Manchester Metropolitan University) - Psychologist working with young people who hear voices.
- Emmanuelle Peters (Kings College London) - Clinical academic psychologist working on voice-hearing in people with no need for psychiatric care.
- Jason Poole (University of East London) - Set up and evaluated the UK’s first Hearing Voices Group at the Heathrow Immigrant Removal Centre
- Elisabeth Svanholmer - Voice-hearer and mental health trainer.
- Neil Thomas (Swinburne University of Technology) - Researcher specializing in hearing voices, psychosis and the therapeutic use of online, mobile and digital technology.
- Rachel Waddingham - Voice-hearer, mental health trainer, researcher, and Chair of the Hearing Voices Network England.
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