MindTech Research Fellow, Dr Aislinn Bergin presented at the international Evidence and Implementation Summit recently, discussing the gameChangeVR study.

MindTech Research Fellow, Dr Aislinn Bergin presented at the international Evidence and Implementation Summit recently, discussing the gameChangeVR study. Hosted in Sydney, Australia, this year’s event was held online.

One of the world’s leading evidence and implementation sector events, the summit is an opportunity for researchers in the fields of evidence synthesis and translation, evaluation, and implementation science to share research at the intersection of research, policy, and practice.

Aislinn’s presentation was during the discussion event, “Towards better health outcomes: the ‘what’ and the ‘how’”. Speakers from the UK, EU and Africa came together to explore implementation from the perspective of understanding how and why something works, along with how to make scaling up possible.

The topic of Aislinn’s presentation was, “Addressing implementation and sustainability in digital mental health: lessons from the gameChange virtual reality project”. It focused on the research MindTech are doing for gameChange, looking at how to embed consideration of implementation and sustainability into clinical research through understanding complexities and finding solutions from early on.

The gameChange project involves the development and evaluation of an innovative VR psychological therapy. It aims to support people with psychosis to overcome their fears in everyday situations and has been funded by the 2017 NIHR i4i Mental Health Challenge Award. The clinical trial, which is near completion, has been led by Oxford University across five trial sites, including here at Nottingham. If you are interested in learning more about the work that MindTech are doing to support its implementation and adoption into the NHS please contact Dr Aislinn Bergin.