Training and speeches · For healthcare providers
Workshops, lectures and speeches, for your event.
Training and speeches by Dr Sam Swidzinski for healthcare providers: NHS services, clinical teams, and the universities and conferences that train them. Topics come from Sam’s research on bipolar disorder, early intervention and lived experience.
Organisations we have worked with
- South London and Maudsley NHSWorkshop
- Royal College of PsychiatristsConference sessions
- Imperial College LondonTeaching
- TU DresdenSpeech
- Bournemouth UniversityVeyra development
What we champion
How each session stays valid and relevant
Scholarly
Clinically valid
Built on Sam’s research on bipolar disorder, early intervention and lived-experience research, and on the published evidence.
Psychologist
Relevant to the people who need it
Given by a researcher with lived experience, for the people delivering care, and shaped to what your team needs.
Watch
See Sam speak
Sam at the Mental Health Mission, with Cambridge, informing NHS clinicians across the country on evidence-based care in bipolar disorder.
Topics Sam has covered
Any of these can run as a workshop, a lecture or a speech. Sam also chairs sessions.
Patient relevance
Why studies should measure what matters to patients, and how to build lived experience in from the start.
Improving access to early intervention services
A workshop for early intervention teams, delivered with Dr Sameer Jauhar.
Affective disorders and bipolar in first-episode psychosis
Built on talks to early intervention services across the UK, and at a conference in Switzerland.
Arts and science as a clinical necessity
Designing environments that build cognitive support.
From patient to researcher to founder
Lived experience as expertise.
Something else?
Tell us what your team needs. If it isn’t something we do well, we’ll say so.
Ask us
Track record
Where Sam has spoken and taught
- WorkshopImproving Access to Early Intervention Services, with Dr Sameer Jauhar, June 2026South London and Maudsley NHS, London Early Intervention Network
- SpeechRethinking Cognitive Assessment and Interventions in Secondary Schools, March 2026TES SEND Show North
- SpeechPatient Relevance: The Future of Lived Experience ResearchTechnische Universität Dresden, a King’s College London and TU Dresden collaboration
- SpeechWhere Art Thou, Affective Psychoses? With Dr Sameer JauharMental Health Mission, to early intervention services across the UK
- SpeechAffective Disorder Prevalence in First-Episode PsychosisConference talk, Switzerland
- SpeechEnvironments Building Cognitive SupportBFX Festival, Bournemouth University
- ChairChaired sessionsRoyal College of Psychiatrists
- TeachingVisiting LecturerImperial College London
From a school using Veyra? Help with Veyra comes from the Veyra team, on its own site.
Go to VeyraPlanning a study day or a conference?
Invite Sam to train or to speak.
Tell us who it’s for, when it is, roughly how many people, and what you’d like covered. We’ll suggest the format that fits.