Incubator Gathering 2025 Registration

Incubator Gathering 2025 – Registration Form

Incubator Gathering 2025 – Registration Form

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 (eg a writing retreat, internship, placement, GROW or PeCO). You will have the chance to:

– meet and network with ECRs in mental health and addiction research 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.

Details

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Which MHR Incubator programme are you affiliated with?
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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.

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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.

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..

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).

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. 

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
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.

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!

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