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Drawing, health and wellbeing
Dr Philippa Lyon

“My talk was looking at art and particularly drawing as a tool for wellbeing. We have a few different projects. One is looking at drawing as a method of communication between patient and doctor; one is focusing on how drawing can be used for wellbeing in people with mental health conditions; one is about people with dementia and how life drawing can give them a different mode of expression and benefit their relationships with therapists. We want to connect with people outside academia. We need to connect with patients, because we’re all patients. We want people to feel free to express their views and opinions. We’re much stronger if we can take all of that into account. We need to think about what everyone wants and needs.”

Emergency mental health and suicide prevention in Sussex
Professor Gillian Bendelow

“My presentation was around the work my team have been doing in collaboration with Sussex Police and Sussex Partnership Trust, in terms of addressing the very high rates of police detentions of the mentally ill in public places. It’s linked to suicide prevention and the crisis in emergency services. There’s been a huge increase in mental distress and people seeking help. We’ve become more aware of these issues, but there’s an expectation that if you’re in crisis you’ll be able to access help – but of course for many people that’s really difficult. Brighton has some of the highest suicide rates in the country. This event is a good way of making people aware of how much of an issue this is, and how much still needs to be done.”

Protein modifications in degenerative and chronic diseases
Dr Nicholas Stewart

“I’m involved in proteomics and the key instrument I use is a Q Exactive Orbitrap. What I showed today was that new instrument we have developed. Now that we have it, we can have a precision medicine approach tailored to the individual. Archaeologists can use this instrument to determine the sex of human remains and there is a charity organisation using it with patients in rehab, screening to see if they’ve relapsed. There are a lot of different uses for it. I would like to get more collaborations out of this event. I’m open to working with anyone, from any field. That’s when most progress is made – when you have inter-disciplinary partnerships that break new ground. We’re all separated in our own specific fields, but if you bridge those you can get some really interesting ideas.”

Human factors in digital health and care
Professor Karen Cham

“I was talking about the importance of design in digital health applications. I can work with any technology in any domain. It could be anything from an app to an autonomous vehicle. Behind all of these technological developments there is a human at work. Health organisations can get these people on board if they want to create a dementia app, for instance. You wouldn’t work on a dementia app without research from the field, because you’d do it wrong. My message is that digital can always be cross-disciplinary and collaborative. This is a sector that really matters. For me the whole digital transformation of public sector services is a massive ethical issue.”

Water, health, humans, hazards and hope
Dr James Ebdon

“I’ve been discussing the work of the environmental public health research unit, which I lead. We’ve been working with UNICEF and the Gates Foundation in India among others, and my presentation was outlining what our role in those projects is. In India we’re trying to understand we’re trying to understand why Calcutta has the highest incidents of Typhoid anywhere in the world. What are the reasons for that? In Kenya we’re looking at childhood diarrhoea from cattle and how we might put in barriers to prevent that. What we do is about developing practical tools. We’re keen to build on the links that we have and fill some of the gaps. We want to work with social sciences to make sure we’re asking the right questions.”

Safe and healthy exercise
Dr Peter Watt

“My presentation was designed to give a flavour of the facilities at our campus in Eastbourne, in terms of helping people to engage with exercise and keep themselves healthy. We all know there is going to be an extreme rise in global temperature, for instance, so we’re working with various groups to work out what they want in terms of exercise and heat. We’re also working with people with disabilities who take part in sporting events like the Paralympics. We want to make sure people can play sport in a safe environment – including finding ways to reduce injuries. It’s about making sure people are active enough to benefit their long-term health.”

HIV: Fast-track to prevention
Nigel Sherriff

“I started today by looking at the global HIV epidemic. Most of my talk was about raising attention to the idea there are different marginalised groups at risk of HIV. I talked about the way our research has worked with these people to increase access to HIV testing. People are often surprised HIV is still an issue. They either presume it’s not a problem because we dealt with it in the 80s, or that it is an issue but that we’ve got all these drugs to deal with it now. Globally, as well as in the UK, it’s an issue we need to pay attention to – and particularly in schools. The only way we’re going to tackle HIV effectively is by working with lots of different sectors.”

New technologies in diabetes prevention and management
Dr Wendy MacFarlane

“I was talking about Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGMS), which are clever devices you can wear. They tell you what your glucose concentration is all the time. We combine that with getting volunteers and patients to tell us about everything they eat, their mood, how they sleep, and fill in a diary for us. What we’re able to do is build metabolic profiles that are specific to them. The monitors mean that if you drink a litre of Coca-Cola you can see immediately what it does to your blood glucose level. It helps people understand their own metabolism. We’re working with people at a very high risk of Type 2 diabetes or who are overweight and trying to get their weight under control. It’s all about giving people control over their metabolism.”