‘Neurodiversity: Cutting-Edge Research, Evolving Perspectives, and Effective Innovations’ is the 2025 Jack Tizard Memorial Conference that brings together leading experts to explore neurodiversity research and practices in mental health, genetics and brain development, and lifespan interventions.
This conference offers a unique opportunity for researchers and clinicians to gain practical insights from cutting-edge research on neurodevelopment. Through topics ranging from early intervention and brain mechanisms to strengths-based approaches and mental health prediction in neurodivergent youth, the event fosters cross-disciplinary dialogue and promotes innovative, evidence-based practices to improve outcomes across the lifespan.
Booking
Sign up at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation. A link to the webinar will be sent nearer the time. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD certificate via email.
- ACAMH Members MUST login to book onto the webinar in order to access this webinar and get a CPD certificate
- Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions
ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession) – Early Bird offer £99 until 30/4/25 (then £119) Join now and save
ACAMH Learn Account holders – Early Bird offer £159 until 30/4/25 (then £179)
Non Members – Early Bird offer £159 until 30/4/25 (then £179)
Undergraduate/Postgraduate – £5
ACAMH LIC Members – FREE
Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.
About the talks
Details about the full line-up is expected in the next week or so, together with information on the talks. We are delighted to already confirmed;
Professor Emily Jones will delve into neurodevelopmental pathways and early development, and how early brain and cognitive differences shape later strengths and challenges
Professor Jonathan Green will present innovative early intervention approaches that support environmental adaptation to neurodiversity, laying the groundwork for an evidence-based, efficient, and ethical model of healthcare delivery.
Assistant Professor Giorgia Michelini will explore the detection and prediction of mental health difficulties in neurodivergent children and adolescents, highlighting opportunities for early identification and support.
Professor Duncan Astle will provide insights into brain mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental differences, shedding light on how these processes shape learning and behaviour.
Associate Professor Dr. Lawrence Fung – Strengths-based Model of Neurodiversity in Education, Employment, and Clinical Settings
Neurodiversity is about accepting variations in brain functions and behaviors as part of normal variations of human beings. Uncovering the strengths of neurodiverse individuals empowers them to increase innovation and productivity, resulting in favorable outcomes not only for them but for the entire community. In this presentation, Dr. Fung will describe the Strengths-Based Model of Neurodiversity in developing neurodiverse individuals in learning and work environments. He will explain how the model is implemented in education (Stanford Neurodiversity Project – Research, Education, and Advocacy Camp for High Schoolers (SNP-REACH)), employment (Empower to Employment), and clinical (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Autistic Adults Provider Training (CBT-AAPT)) settings.
Learning objectives
1. Understand the components of the strengths-based model of neurodiversity.
2. Gain knowledge on community-based participatory research for the development of psychoeducational interventions.
3. Discover the results of training job coaches, employers, and family members by the Empower to Employment (E2E) curriculum.
4. Learn examples of how neurodiversity-informed care can be conducted in the clinical setting.
About the speakers
Emily Jones is a Professor at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests centre on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms that drive variability in developmental trajectories. In this context, she runs a number of prospective longitudinal studies of typical and atypical neurodevelopment in infants and directs electrophysiological and eye-tracking acquisition across several large-scale European and Global Health studies of children and adults with neurodevelopmental conditions (https://sites.google.com/view/bondcbcd). Emily is part of the the editorial team for JCPP Advances. She is committed to ensuring that work on early neurodevelopmental conditions embraces complexity and considers both strengths and weaknesses. She strongly supports initiatives to boost cultural, geographical, clinical and disciplinary diversity in submissions, and is particularly interested in work that integrates a participatory element.
Dr. Giorgia Michelini is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London and a Visiting Researcher at King’s College London and at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). After completing a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Clinical Psychology, she pursued a PhD in Developmental Psychopathology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, supervised by Professor Jonna Kuntsi. Her PhD work was awarded the 2018 Elsevier Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize and the 2018 Neil O’Connor Prize from the British Psychological Society. She then completed postdoctoral fellowships in the US at SUNY Stony Brook and UCLA, before returning to the UK to take up her current position. Her research seeks to elucidate the biological and psychosocial processes underlying neurodevelopmental (e.g., ADHD) and affective disorders, as well as their co-occurrence, in order to inform prevention, early identification, and treatment strategies. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Heath Research, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD) and Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation.
Duncan Astle is a the Gnodde Goldman Sachs Professor of Neuroinformatics in the Department of Psychiatry, and a Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, where he leads the 4D Research Group. He is also a Fellow of Robinson College. Prior to this he completed his training at Durham and Nottingham, and held fellowships at Oxford, Royal Holloway and Cambridge. He is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist and his research uses multiple methods to explore how brain systems develop through childhood, and the mechanisms that give rise to divergent developmental trajectories or neurodevelopmental disorders. This programme of work has been supported by the Royal Society, the British Academy, the Medical Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, James S. McDonnell Foundation, Templeton World Charitable Foundation, and multiple charities. Duncan currently serves on the Medical Research Council’s Neurosciences and Mental Health Board and as Chair of the University’s LGBT+ Staff network. He has won a number of Prizes for his research, most recently the Vice-Chancellor’s 2020 Award for Impact and Engagement by an established researcher.
Associate Professor Dr. Lawrence Fung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is the director of the Stanford Neurodiversity Project, director of the Neurodiversity Clinic, and principal investigator at the Fung Lab. His work, which focuses on autism and neurodiversity, traverses from multi-modal neuroimaging studies to a new conceptualization of neurodiversity and its application to clinical, educational, and employment settings. His lab advances the understanding of neural bases of human socio-communicative and cognitive functions by using novel neuroimaging and bioanalytical technologies. Using a community-based participatory research approach, his team devises and implements novel interventions to improve the lives of neurodiverse individuals by maximizing their potential and productivity.
Booking
Sign up at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation. A link to the webinar will be sent nearer the time. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD certificate via email.
- ACAMH Members MUST login to book onto the webinar in order to access this webinar and get a CPD certificate
- Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions
ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession) – Early Bird offer £99 until 30/4/25 (then £119) Join now and save
ACAMH Learn Account holders – Early Bird offer £159 until 30/4/25 (then £179)
Non Members – Early Bird offer £159 until 30/4/25 (then £179)
Undergraduate/Postgraduate – £5
ACAMH LIC Members – FREE
Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.