Speaker Group: Keynote 2025

Dr Adrian James

Dr James was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2020 – 2023 and is currently a board member of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, a member of the NHS Assembly and was the first medical director of Devon Partnership NHS Trust. During his time as President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists,… Read more »

Marsha McAdam

As an Expert by Experience, influencer and ambassador, Marsha is committed to bringing about positive change within the mental health sector. She identifies as having a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and physical health comorbidities. Marsha is a Churchill Fellow (2023) and a recipient of the President’s Medal from the Royal College of Psychiatry… Read more »

Prof. Yvonne Jewkes

Yvonne Jewkes studied for her PhD at the Prisons Research Centre, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof Alison Liebling. She has been Professor of Criminology since 2007 (and at the University of Bath since Sept 2018). She has held research grants totalling approximately £1.5million, including two funded by the Economic… Read more »

Geoff Brennan

Geoff Brennan is a registered nurse for Learning Disabilities and a mental health nurse. A 40-year career has seen Geoff work on and around mental health wards. In that time, he has been in every position a nurse can have – from support worker to Nurse Consultant Geoff was involved with the original Safewards Randomised… Read more »

Baroness Berger

Member of the House of Lords and former Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Chair of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance and Chair of the Youth Futures Foundation Mental Health Advisory Group sets out her perspective in this opening keynote to the Design in Mental Health Conference 2025.