Mind Your Language! (ESRC Festival of Social Science)

What can we tell about your wellbeing from what you write online? How does sharing your experience help other people and you? Come and help researchers find out if they are on the right track and shape future clinical practice.

This workshop will explore how people express mindfulness (and its opposite) in everyday language and to look at the potential applications in the field of digital mental health. This is an opportunity to shape research and the healthcare of the near future.

Our audience will gain:

• an understanding of mindfulness and how it can be recognised in real world conversations
• awareness of how technology is being used to exploit these ideas to improve online safety and the effectiveness of digital mental health solutions

Draft programme:
12:30pm Buffet lunch
1pm Potential markers of mindfulness in everday language - Mat Rawsthorne
2pm Refreshments
2:15pm Implications for online safety - Dr Yunfei Long
3pm Conclusions and next steps - Dr Elvira Perez
3.30pm Close

Academic Lead: Mat Rawsthorne.