This year’s International Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research Conference takes place on the 5th and 6th of September at Warwick University. Here are ten reasons to come along and participate:

1. to learn from Professor Kate Pickett (co-author of The Spirit Level) talking about global inequalities in mental health;
2. to hear Professor Len Bowers presenting new findings from his Safewards trial;
3. to listen to Charles Walker MP, who has talked publicly about his personal experience of mental health difficulties, speaking on the topic of making the personal political;
4. to hear Dr Simon Duffy from the Centre for Welfare Reform talking about personal responsibility and social justice;
5. to listen to Dr Fiona Nolan from UCL/Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust discussing protected engagement time in acute mental health inpatient wards;
6. in a packed programme of concurrent sessions, to learn from delegates (from the UK and beyond) talking about their research studies large and small;
7. to renew existing friendships within the mental health nursing research field, and to make new ones;
8. because I defy you to tell me you have anything more interesting to be doing over the two days the conference is taking place;
9. because if (like me) you’re a regular at this conference, being there is the only way to find out how the NPNR at Warwick compares with the NPNR at Oxford;
10. because you will, undoubtedly, enjoy yourself.

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