Incubator Gathering 2025 Registration Form

Incubator Gathering 2025 - Registration Form

About you

Please write a short researcher biography (no more than 250 words) that will be listed in the gathering's cohort booklet.

0 of 250 max words

Please upload a good quality researcher headshot, to be shared with others attending the gathering.

Maximum file size: 52.43MB

Accommodation and Travel

The Incubator Gathering will take place in Manchester, UK on Tuesday 4 November 2025, 10am-3pm. We are able to fund the cost of accommodation the night before (Monday 3 November) for any attendee that would like it.

Please choose the most appropriate answer

I would like accommodation to be booked for me for Monday 3 November.

I do not require accommodation to be booked for me.

For health and safety purposes, we are required to share the phone number of any guests with the hotel, to be used only in the case of an emergency. This information will not be shared with anybody else, apart from the designated hotel staff.

Mobile number

We reimburse travel costs according to the University of Oxford’s Expenses Policy - a digital version can also be found online here. Please kindly familiarise yourself with this policy and refer to it when booking any travel. If you need to discuss alternate options/exemptions to this, please email us.

We are also able to cover the cost of childcare or other caring responsibilities to enable you to attend the Gathering.

Please check the below box if you would welcome financial support to cover childcare/other caring costs to help you attend the retreat..

I would welcome financial support for caring/childcare costs to help me attend this gathering.

Dietary and accessibility needs

The information in this section will NOT be shared with anybody, apart from the MHR Incubator team and the appropriate venue facilitators (e.g. catering).

Do you have any dietary requirements? If so, please share details below.

Do you have any accessibility requirements? If so, please share details below.

Activities

A very popular part of the Incubator Gathering are our sessions or conversations - hosted by you! Last year, topics included:

Finding time to do research post-PhD
Looking beyond the UK: ECRs in global mental health
What do we know about the wellbeing of mental health researchers – results from a UK-wide survey

Please let us know any thoughts you have about sessions you would like to host or attend below.

Suggested title or topic for your session or conversation

Who would you like to take part in this conversation or session?

What are your ideas so far about the purpose or proposed format of your session or conversation?

We will be hosting skills workshops at this year's Gathering, last year topics included:

Career Planning - How to ensure my work brings me what I need now and in the future
Addressing 'Impostor Syndrome'
Exploring and overcoming the barriers to submitting and obtaining research fellowships

What are your ideas and preferences for the skills-based workshops at the Gathering:

What else would you like to see on the agenda for the Gathering?

If you may have some ideas for hosting a session, but need a bit more time to think about it, please check this box and we will come back to you.

Please get in touch with me about the possibility of hosting/helping organise a session.

Networking

Following popular demand, we are keen to do the most we can to enable you to develop useful connections with other mental health researchers during the Incubator Gathering. For this we are planning a structured networking session based on your research interest areas, discipline background and methodological expertise. Given the wide range of disciplines, interest areas and expertise among us, we need your help to facilitate this as best we can.

Please let us know any thoughts you have about sessions you would like to host or attend below. We can support you to plan your session. It can be very informal!

Please describe your professional background. You may wish to describe your background and current area. Eg: psychiatrist by background now specialising in public health. For example: pharmacy; public health; social work; psychology; primary care; psychiatry; physiotherapy.

Please describe your three main research interest areas within the broad area of mental health research: For example: alcohol; electronic health records; prevention; global mental health; dual-diagnosis; trials; parenting; anxiety disorders; intersectionality; domestic violence; loneliness; trauma; children in care

Please describe up to three main research methods you employ in your work: For example: creative methods; qualitative interviews; big data; database analysis.

Please check all that apply:

I would like to only be matched with people with similar interests/background

I would like to only be matched with people with different interests/background

I would like to be matched with people with similar AND different interests/backgrounds

Personal data that you share with the Mental Health Research Incubator is collected, stored, accessed, and used in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Mental Health Research Incubator privacy policy, and the University of Oxford data protection policy. If you have any questions or concerns about your personal data, please email us at mhresearch@psych.ox.ac.uk

Confirmation

I agree that if any of my answers to the above questions change, I will reach out to the MHR Incubator team as soon as possible.

If you are human, leave this field blank.

About

The 2025 Mental Health Research Incubator Gathering brings together addiction and mental health researchers from across the UK. This fully funded event is for you if you have ever participated in any of the Incubator programmes (e.g: a writing retreat, internship, placement, GROW or PeCO).

You will

have a chance to meet and network early career researchers in mental health and addiction from across the UK
take part in practical skills development workshops
host and participate in informal conversations and sessions on a range of cross-cutting topics

Date: Tuesday 4 November, 10am - 3pm

Location: Friends' Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester, M2 5NS