Another reminder that the registration for this in-person event closes in less than a week! The full schedule of talks can be found here: padlet.com/juliekane3/p...

Registration closes in just under 2 weeks - please do consider coming if you are interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the topic of mental health and social relationships!

As our Network comes to a close, we're tying up loose ends ✨in style✨ with a very swanky closing event on May 7th 2026! Please join us for a series of talks by Network members and participate in helping forge the future of the Network: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2026/04/netw...

✨Registration is now open✨ for our joint conference "Relationships and Mental Health" on May 12th 2026, in person at The Exchange, Birmingham: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-... Registration closes May 5th!

Just a reminder that the deadline for our CFP is this Friday (March 20th)!

Please see the webpage below for the final schedule. Just a reminder that registration closes midday on Friday the 13th of March!

There is still time to register for online attendance at our upcoming event! Please follow the link below. Note: the registration form will close at midday on March 13th.

EVENT: Hearing voices, suicidality, and 'AI psychosis' A @uobphenomenal.bsky.social seminar drawing on perspectives from philosophy, mental health research, psychology, and lived experience. Friday 20 March, 9am - 4.30pm UK time, online and in person. #HearingVoices #MentalHealthResearch

📣CFP: "Relationships and Mental Health", Birmingham, May 12th 2026 We are excited to announce a collaboration with our lovely colleagues in the Phenomenology of Health and Relationships (PHaR) group at Aston University on a one-day conference along the theme: Relationships and Mental Health 🧵1/4

Finally out! TLDR: People don't feel shit cause they believe wild conspiracy theories, they believe CTs cause they feel shit. CT beliefs are often confabulations explaining their existential predicament. I drew on LOTS empirical stuff to try & make this defeasible: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Spaces for this event are filling up so this is just a reminder that if you would like to come to this event in person, please do register early! You can also register for online attendance and to receive recordings of the events with the same link below:

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Following along with this today! Interesting discussion of metaphor and narrative as 'sensemaking tools' re: unshared beliefs. Reinforces for me the importance of safe, non-judgmental spaces where people can speak about their beliefs and experiences, like a Hearing Voices group -Sarah, HV Team

Excited to speak at this! 🤓

📅Save the date! Our next Network seminar will be on "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", March 20th 2026, Hybrid This is a collaboration with @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social and #ProjectEPIC Find more info and registration here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

We are now out of in-person places at our workshop, but there's always plenty of room online! Please sign up below to receive the link before the event. If you are still keen to come in person, you can also sign up to the wait list and we will contact you if there is space.

The event will be taking place on Jan 14, 9.30-16.30, at The Studio in central Birmingham and online. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Ray Gibbs, Prof. Francesca Ervas, Dr Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, and Dr Francesca Brencio. In-person places are limited so please do register.

📣Announcing our third seminar in the series, titled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health"! Please join us for a wonderful day discussing language, affect and experience! See schedule and registration details here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...

Great day with rich discussions. The talks all went so well together. #psychedelics #phenomenology #mentalhealth @uobphenomenal.bsky.social

We had an absolutely fantastic seminar last Wednesday 🤩 We talked about stigma, oceanic feelings, predictive processing, the importance of community and more!

This was great! Ageing is one of those topics where thinking about it even just a little bit and sharing experiences with others goes a long way to making us way more lucid about it. The default usually is to never think about it unless forced! This book club feels safe & sparks interesting convos.

Our schedule for our next network seminar has now been finalised! Check out our website for the full list of awesome talks: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/10/netw... P.S. there's still time to register!

Coming soon: Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by #PPIE experts. 📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw

Don’t forget to sign up to our new reading group! We’ll be meeting in two weeks to discuss the beginning of section 5: “The Discovery and Assumption of Old Age: The Body’s Experience” (pp.314-345 of the 1985 Penguin Modern Classics edition)

This week on Behind the Stigma Podcast🎙️, I spoke to @isernmas.bsky.social on their excellent paper 'Unmasking therapy speak' - what they describe as a superficial use of psychotherapy language. We spoke about what that means & its wider impact. Listen here:🤩 www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...

Monthly Phenomenology, 6th Season (2025–2026) - Online Francesca Forlè - Embodied Affectivity. A Phenomenological Account of the Connection between Affective Phenomena and Bodily Expressions 24 October 2025 From the Network for Phenomenological Research www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/10/09/m...

📣Announcing our Psychedelics, Phenomenology, & Mental Health seminar, 5.11.25, Birmingham and Online Drawing on phenomenological perspectives, the workshop will bring together interdisciplinary scholars to discuss the potential of psychedelic experiences for addressing mental health challenges.

New special issue out on psychedelic treatments! Guest editor Elly Vintiadis, who also authored the introduction: doi.org/10.1080/0951... Free access! Follow this thread to know more about the other contributions #vol38issue7 #psychedelics #philsky #philpsy 1/14

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health? Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age". Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...

On September 3rd, we launched our network with an exciting and inspiring event designed for and led by ECRS across the Midlands. If you missed it, you can read our report here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/birm...

Great kick off for the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health! Inspiring day, fruitful conversations and great speakers. An heartfelt thanks to all the people who presented and attended (in person and remotely) from us! @matthewbroome.bsky.social @jelliedsours.bsky.social

thank you @uobphenomenal.bsky.social for an excellent workshop today! such a diverse and thought-provoking collection of talks, and lovely conversations with fellow attendees. i’m looking forward to the next event!

"Exploring lived experience in mental health", first workshop of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health. Happening now, at the Studio (Central Birmingham) @matthewbroome.bsky.social and @jelliedsours.bsky.social delivering the opening remarks

Loving the talks this morning at @uobphenomenal.bsky.social's event. We are learning about really interesting topics with some lovely speakers and great moderation by @jelliedsours.bsky.social

Registration for our event closes today, so please sign up ASAP if you would like to come along. It’s going to be a fun, jam-packed day!

Our event is only a week away! Please do register if you haven’t done so already!

Our event is on September 3rd 2025 at The Studio in central Birmingham but there is an option for online attendance for those who would like to listen to the talks!

🌟Registration for our PhD and ECR Research Day is now open! Click here to register and see the provisional schedule: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/deAH1HLcv2 We will be hearing amazing presentations on the theme of lived experiences in mental health, and talking about career goals and next steps!

Delighted to be part of this great new network at Birmingham, and quietly working on putting together a psychedelics and lived experience workshop as part of its activities!

Happy to hear that Why Delusions Matter (Bloomsbury 2023) is a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! www.choice360.org/ch... #philsky #philpsy #booksky

Mobile methods in social research. Watch RuthBartlett talking about walking interviews. @sadierockliffe.bsky.social on swim-along interviews. And GabrielleLynch on shared car journeys. Amazing creative researchers! Thanks @ncrm.ac.uk

For the Love of Art Call for abstracts for a 2-Day Art Workshop (13-14 November 2025) convened by the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa. www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/08/13/c... #phenomenology #philosophy

Charlotte Knowles - Danielle Petherbridge - Aisling Swaine Special Keynote Plenary: “Phenomenological Explorations of Coercive Control & Complicity” #BSP2025UCD: ‘Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying #Phenomenology’ 27/28/29 August - Dublin Registration Open Now thebsp.org.uk/2025/07/18/k...

Just a reminder that the deadline to submit your abstract is this Friday, August 15th!

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO US!! So excited for this to be out in the world! @annastenning.bsky.social @bergenmar.bsky.social @ainokash.bsky.social @alicehagopian.bsky.social and everyone not on BSky!

Attn: UK based #zine organisers! If you make zines & organise zine events (fairs, workshops, talks, meet ups) & you'd be interested in talking about your experiences of it as part of this study, please do get in touch, would love to include your perspective. #zinefair #zinefest #zineworkshop

🌟Our CFP is now open to all PhDs and ECRs based in and around the Midlands! So if you live or work close by and work on phenomenology, lived experience and mental health, please do submit an abstract!

Want to stay up to date with our activities and help the network grow? Consider signing up for updates here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/xGudWB705P