Mind Matters invites research abstracts for symposium
Louise Allum is chair of MMI.
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Mind Matters Initiative (MMI) is inviting researchers from around the world to submit abstracts for its 2025 veterinary mental health research symposium.
MMI's fifth symposium is set to take place on 10 October 2025 at the Eastside Rooms, Birmingham, and will focus on the theme of ‘Advancing veterinary mental health research: learning from the past, considering the present, and looking to the future’.
Researchers at any career stage can submit an abstract for either oral presentation or poster presentation. The abstract must be linked to at least one of MMI's strategic areas of focus for 2025:
- Veterinary professionals’ suicide prevention
- Veterinary occupational stressors (including trauma and burnout)
- Mental health in veterinary education
- Veterinary workplace leadership and mental health
- Veterinary professionals’ mental health and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
Louise Allum, MMI chair, said: “It is of vital importance that we can collectively learn from recent endeavours to work out how we can collaborate towards creating a brighter future for the professions.
“It is only through events such as our symposia that we can start to understand where those vital research gaps lie, as well as what actions we need to take next in order to advance our understanding of veterinary mental health.
“Our symposium presents a fantastic opportunity for knowledge exchange in the veterinary mental health research sphere so that, together, we can continue to foster a compassionate environment and build a solid evidence-base for veterinary mental health research to grow and evolve.”
The deadline for submitting an abstract in 28 February 2025. Details about how to submit can be found here.
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