Mental Health Science Summit Bursaries

The MQ Mental Health Science Summit, in collaboration with Wellcome, is an interdisciplinary mental health science conference. It brings together people from all disciplines and sectors, focused on transforming mental health.

Key to this is the involvement of people with lived experience of mental illness, early career researchers, and delegates from LMICs. Attendance at the Summit is ticketed.

Many delegates are attending in a work capacity, and so are both salaried and have their costs covered by their organisation. For certain groups of key delegates, the ticket price is prohibitive.

This is particularly true for people with lived experience who often attend such events in a voluntary capacity and some of whom are insecurely employed, early career researchers who often do not have research grants available to cover conference attendance, and delegates from LMICs who are economically less able to have such funds available.

Following Wellcome' Cat Sebastian’s contributions to the organising committee, we are applying for £4,000 to enable subsidised places for delegates from these three groups to attend the Summit. This will enable 30 delegates to attend. Aa agreed, any funds not spent on bursaries for this year’s Summit will be used to widen access at subsequent events.