PHI UK’s Population Mental Health Consortium, is running an Innovation Lab event focused on children and young people on Friday, 20 June in person at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham.
The theme for the event is:
Improving population mental health for children and young people, with a particular focus on connectedness.
What is the Innovation Lab?
The Innovation Lab will be a hands-on workshop, bringing together researchers, organisations and individuals to develop research ideas that will improve children and young people’s mental health at a population level. The Innovation Lab will provide a space to:
connect with potential collaborators across sectors
identify potential areas for future collaboration
pitch for small pots of funding to get a research collaboration off the ground.
Who is the Innovation Lab aimed at?
For anyone interested in population mental health, this is a chance to get involved in the future of equitable population mental health research. For early career researchers, the seed funding could be the first step towards a larger grant. For community organisations, this is a chance to unlock larger pots of funding in the future.
We hope that the funded projects will grow into successful collaborations, learning from and enriching the existing Consortium networks, producing a better infrastructure linking up practice, policy, research and community insights.
Funding
Project ideas that show promise may receive seed funding to support their development. Funding for individual projects will range from £1,000 to £10,000, with a total budget of £40,000 to distribute across the selected projects.
Expenses
Additional funding is available to reimburse participants for expenses directly incurred because of their involvement. This funding is intended to cover costs participants would not otherwise be able to recover through other means. Reimbursements will be subject to availability and ensure equitable allocation across all participants.
How to attend
Please submit your expression of interest by Friday,16 May. We will confirmed attendees by 23 May.
Want to know more before registering?
Join us on Friday, 2 May, 1pm for an information session where you can learn more about the Innovation Lab and explore the exciting opportunities to collaborate and contribute to the field.
This 60-minute session will explain:
The background to the event, including the Population Mental Health Consortium
The structure and goals of the Innovation Lab
Examples of the types of projects we are interested in
Details about who is eligible to participate
There will also be a chance for Q&A to ask any clarifying questions about the event.
