Dear mental health researchers:

In follow up to the announcement below for the WUN Symposium: New Research Directions in Global Mental Health, please note the Friday March 22, 2024 deadline for abstracts (and Early Career Researcher bursary applications).

 

We have already received abstracts and registrations from the UK, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, Australia, US and Canada and from the enthusiastic emails received from others, we expect more to come in before the deadline. We are looking forward to further developing the program based on the abstracts and interests of participants, and bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from across the network and beyond passionate about global mental health. 

 Information on the symposium themes, the draft program, ECR travel bursaries, and accommodation and travel in Leeds can be found on the symposium website.

 

Please feel free to get in touch at [log in to unmask] if you have any questions. 

 

Keynote Speaker Spotlight

Dr. China Mills

Dr. China Mills (she/her) is the Disability Justice Lead at Healing Justice London. She manages the Deaths by Welfare Project, exploring how welfare policies harm people and what can be learned from the strategies of disabled people and bereaved families in fighting for justice. Formely a Senior Lecturer at City, University of London, Dr. Mills' research and teaching in the area of global mental health focuses on state and corporate production of harm, distress and deaths by suicide. Dr. Mills is author of the book Decolonizing Global Mental Health: the Psychiatrization of the Majority World (published in 2014 by Routledge).

 

Professor Elelwani Ramugondo

Professor Elelwani Ramugondo is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor responsible for Transformation, Student Affairs and Social Responsiveness at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa and is passionate about student mental health. Professor Ramugondo’s work at UCT over the past 25 years has focused on leading with integrity, recognising this to be pivotal in advancing transformation and excellence as interdependent and interlinked concepts. Professor Ramugondo’s decolonial approach to teaching and convening postgraduate courses has received international recognition, leading to numerous invitations to lead symposia for postgraduate students and faculty in South America, the United Kingdom, and North America.