Below are links to past event recaps, Newsletters, Media articles, Radio Interviews and many interesting activities Meeting for Minds has been instrumental in since 2014 around the globe.

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Living with Schizophrenia

Susie Hincks & Angelique Lee radio Interview with Jenny Seaton at Curtin Radio about living with Schizophrenia and why Meeting for Minds has an important job to do encouraging lived experience people be involved in science research projects.

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Hitting the spot

Public involvement in research has become an important and integral part of the research process in health and social care, from the early stages of research prioritisation and development to the later stages of research conduct and dissemination. Learning and development opportunities, including training, can assist the public and researchers in working together in the research process, and a training schedule exists in Wales for this purpose. One of the key components of this training schedule in Wales is the course Involving the Public in the Design and Conduct of Research: Building Research Partnerships.

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Censorship of addiction research is an abuse of science

Researchers must stand up to funders that insist on gagging clauses.

Kypros Kypri was pleased to receive funding from a government agency in the Australian state of New South Wales to study problem drinking. But when the contract arrived in 2012, he was surprised to find a demand that the agency could review and sign off on any reports before they were published. Other language allowed the agency to terminate funding without notice or explanation.

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Researchers find no connection between serotonin gene, stress and depression - April 4, 2017

New research findings often garner great attention. But when other scientists follow up and fail to replicate the findings? Not so much. In fact, a recent study published in PLOS One indicates that only about half of scientific discoveries will be replicated and stand the test of time. So perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that new research led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that an influential 2003 study about the interaction of genes, environment and depression may have missed the mark.

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