New webinar from the Population Mental Health Consortium ahead of sandpit event in March
The Population Mental Health Consortium, part of the UKRI-funded Population Health Improvement network, is running a collaborative sandpit event on Wednesday, 5 March at the University of Manchester campuses on Oxford Road, Manchester from 12pm until 5:30pm.
You can now watch a recording of the Population Mental Health Consortium (the Consortium) webinar outlining details ahead of the sandpit event on the built environment and population mental health.
You can watch the recording via YouTube (approximate length 34 minutes).
About the Q&A session
This online Q&A facilitated by the Consortium aimed to share more about what this sandpit event is all about and allow for questions about the event.
The sandpit event will be a hands-on workshop where teams from different sectors – academics, community groups, public services – rapidly brainstorm and test ideas in real-world contexts. For this first sandpit, we’re inviting a small set of organisations to bring challenges tied to the Consortium’s goals. In the sandpit workshop, they’ll work with researchers to develop tangible proof-of-concept solutions. Those that look promising can then receive seed funding from the sandpit budget. The amount of funding given to each individual project will range from £1,000 to £10,000, and the total amount to be distributed to all projects is £40,000.
Additional funding is available to reimburse participants for expenses directly incurred as a result of their involvement in the sandpit. This funding is intended to cover costs that participants would not otherwise be able to recover through other means. Reimbursements will be subject to the availability of funds within the overall event budget, ensuring equitable allocation while supporting participants to engage fully.
For further details, please contact popmh@kcl.ac.uk.
For more details on the Population Mental Health Consortium, please visit our dedicated webpage.
Expressions of interest
Expression of Interest form for organisations
Expression of Interest form for academics/researchers