Archives: Speakers

Dr Carla Figuerido

Dr Carla Figueiredo is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Eating Disorders and a Clinical Director for the Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Provider Collaborative. Carla has worked with the Dorset Healthcare All Age Eating Disorder Service for over 10 years. The service offers Community, In Patient and Day Service treatment. Carla has extensive experience of… Read more »

Nick Smith

After a childhood full of neglect, abuse and violence, I developed my own demons. I tried ending my life at 19 and went into hospital. Most of my 20s were spent drunk and in and out of therapies. In 2011 at age 32, I lost hope of being a decent dad to my five year… Read more »

Jo Baudin

Jo is an Interdisciplinary Consultant advocating for lived experience to help shape our world. She is an Interior Architect, Peer Support Worker and Community Researcher, and is also a User/ Survivor of Mental Health services. As the first Interdisciplinary Advisor and stakeholder at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, she has… Read more »

Aideen-Niamh O’Neill

My name is Aideen-Niamh O’Neill.  I am someone who lives with mental ill health & have done so for all of my adult life.  I am using the insight of being an Inpatient to look at the Patient Experience Pathway, to ensure & advocate that the Patient Voice is heard for the New Warneford Park… Read more »

Robert Dawson

Robert is a Director at Eric Parry Architects and has over 25 years of experience across commercial, education and healthcare projects. Robert studied at the Birmingham School of Architecture and Oxford Brookes University and has been working with Eric Parry since 2006, on a series of high-profile projects in London, Cambridge, and Oxford, including 4… Read more »

Karen Howell

Karen is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 35 years’ experience. She is currently Managing Director of Iteriad, a landscape architecture practice specialising in the design of outdoor spaces for mental healthcare and healthcare environments. Karen’s particular expertise is creating sensory spaces that focus on touching nature and that capture a special sense of place… Read more »

Rhian Davidson

Rhian Davidson is a Healthcare Specialist at Altro, collaborating closely with estates, facilities, capital, architectural, and construction stakeholders to drive forward their projects. Altro has been championing the importance of designing spaces to be inclusive through its forum events for specifiers and end-users, and its ‘Designing for Neurodiversity’ CPD.

Kate Netten

Kate Netten has worked in the HMPP Evidence Based Practice Team since 2020. Before joining the team she worked as a probation officer for 20 years, spending three of those years in a secondment to the youth justice service.

James Adamson

James in a Senior Manager working in HMPPS Headquarters. He is based in the Health and Social Care Team and is the thematic lead for Mental Health for Prison and Probation nationally and has been in this role for the last 3 years. James started in the service just over 16 years ago starting as… Read more »