Population Mental Health is running a collaborative event focused on digital interventions to reduce suicide and self-harm at population-level on 13 October in London.
What is the Innovation Lab?
The Innovation Lab will be a hands-on workshop and networking event, bringing together researchers, organisations and individuals with community insights to develop research ideas that will reduce suicide and self-harm by looking at the wider determinants of health rather than crisis support services.
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
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.
The Innovation Lab will be looking to provide seed-funding to collaborations working on the following themes:
Online safety and social media interventions
Precision public health (e.g. use of AI and big data analytics for timely and targeted intervention)
Evidence-based digital platforms (e.g. for screening, psychoeducation and/or access to support at an early stage)
Population-level and tailored digital campaigns
Digital peer support networks
Digital/‘simulation’ suicide prevention training
Digital and AI-based tools to monitor and strengthen protective factors (including apps, wearables and environmental sensors, conversational agents and natural language processing)
Additional funding is available to reimburse participants for expenses directly incurred as a result 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
Click to submit an expression of interest in attending. You will just need to let us know what kind of project you would like to do and what kind of collaboration you would be interested in.
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