Conference Speakers
David co-founded arts organisation MBD after graduating Lancaster University in 1997. After going solo in 2012 he has recorded a clinical depression concept album (Good Friday) which he turned into a show, written a children’s book (The Nose That Nobody Picked) which he turned into a musical, and penned a memoir about recovering from a… Read more »
Faith is a general adult consultant psychiatrist currently working in psychiatric intensive care at the Caludon Centre, CWPT. She has worked as a psychiatrist for 20 years and has extensive experience working in community and acute settings. She has worked as an NHS consultant psychiatrist in Coventry for the last 16 years and is the… Read more »
Coming from an NHS background Jenny has over 20 years’ experience in mental health services and design. She is an experienced healthcare planner and technical author. Publications include Health Building notes (HBN) 03-01 – Adult acute mental health units (2013) and 03-02- Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (2017) for the Department of Health and… Read more »
Leah is a Registered Mental Health Nurse with over 10 years experience working within the older adult/mental health sector. Using her previous experience of managing Dementia Nursing Homes, Homeless Units and Extra Support Housing Schemes across Lancashire and Merseyside she has gained a wealth of experience in a varied range of health and social care… Read more »
From the age of 3 Deborah knew she wanted to be a nurse and after a 27 year career in the NHS, starting as a student nurse and working her way up to Divisional Nurse Manager, she decided to focus her long term passion on a more holistic approach to nursing in the private sector…. Read more »
Elaine joined the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as the Executive Director of Communications and Corporate Governance in June 2013. Before joining the trust Elaine held the post of Director of NHS Communications, supporting two regional offices and 17 area teams of NHS England in the North and Midlands and East of England with strategic… Read more »
Alan explains ‘self-moving mountains’. He uses stories, songs, silence, breathing, consciousness and sensory being, to show movement beyond words. The tantalising ‘switch’ of disintegration to fearless love. Miraculous power, emergent, as we imagine it. Alan is 63, a butterfly, tea-blender, hill-runner. Founder of Businessballs, Rude Angel and the Festival of Life and Death. Join with… Read more »
Andrew is an Award-Winning Architect and Director at Gilling Dod Architects which has over the last 20 years established itself as a major player in UK Healthcare Design. It is in the field of Mental Health Design however where Andrew has excelled with acclaimed projects completed across all aspects of the sector and for Clients… Read more »
People Participation Worker, at East London NHS Foundation Trust Having struggled with complex mental health issues since her teens, and the accompanying hospitalisation throughout her twenties, Katharine uses her lived experience to help others in similar situations and improve the provision of mental health and social care. Katharine works with Peabody Housing Association to co-design… Read more »
Jonathan Campbell is a professionally Chartered NHS Director of Capital, Estates and Facilities with over 20 years’ experience of mental health, acute and community services.He is a firm believer of how important the environment is for recovery and that safe, robust and secure environments must also be therapeutic and healing.As part of his role at… Read more »
Ruairi has been designing healthcare environments for 18 years. This includes projects such as Glenside Campus, a130-bed new mental health facility in Adelaide, and Ferndene, a 40-bed new children and young person’s mental health and learning disabilities inpatient facility in Northumbria. Ruairi is particularly interested in how a patient’s environment can contribute to their wellbeing… Read more »
Stuart is a qualified Architect and Studio Associate, his role is to oversee teams on what are often large complex projects. He has also been responsible for successfully delivering a number of small scale refurbishment projects to existing healthcare facilities. Stuart has played a strong role in the development of IBI Group’s technical standards in… Read more »
A healthcare architect for over 35 years, Tim Rommel is a recognized expert in the planning and design of mental healthcare facilities, with several dozen highly regarded projects to his credit. The mental healthcare leader for CannonDesign’s Health practice, Tim’s professional focus is providing clients with planning solutions to meet current and emerging trends in… Read more »
Richard is the founder of IBI TH!NK. An advocate of evidence-based design, Richard creates innovations that positively impact on specific patient groups. Sense Sensitive Design, Emotional Mapping, the Design Prescription, Sensory Plans and Design Heals are a few of the models that he has successfully pioneered. Richard gains great satisfaction from translating holistic ideas into… Read more »
Natalie joined Maytree in 2011 as a Project Manager prior to her appointment as Director in 2013. Before coming to Maytree she gained extensive experience managing a Community Drug service in Croydon. Her career within the voluntary sector began in 1993, gaining experience in the fields of Mental health, drug and alcohol misuse and homelessness…. Read more »
Chief Executive – Centre for Mental Health Sarah has worked in mental health for 28 years and has been the Chief Executive at Centre for Mental Health for over a year now. Having initially trained as a social worker, Sarah has managed a range of innovative community and secure services. She also led the research… Read more »
