Evaluating Policy Implementations TO Predict MEntal health
The EPITOME research project end-of-grant workshop
Room 115, Department of Statistical Science, University College London
2 July 2026
Background
This workshop consolidates and showcases the work developed as part of the “Evaluating Policy Implementations TO Predict MEntal health” EPITOME research grant, funded by the Wellcome Trust, at UCL, LSE and Imperial College London.
The workshop will be centered around four sessions, one for each of the original work-packages. In each session, there will be two talks – one for work related to the research project and another presented by an invited speaker.
Location
The workshop will be held on the 2nd July 2026 at University College London (UCL), Department of Statistical Science, room 115, on the first floor of 1-19, Torrington Place, WC1E 7HB. When you arrive at the reception, there will be signs to guide you up to the first floor and then to the room.
UCL is within walking distance from at least three Tube stations:
- Goodge Street, on the Northern Line;
- Tottenham Court Road on the Central, Northern and Elizabeth Lines;
- Warren Street on the Victoria and Northern Lines.
Transport for London (TfL) has a very handy Journey Planner that can be used to… well: plan your journey from anywhere within the network.
Full programme
The full programme is as follows.
| Session | Name | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:00 | Welcome | ||
| 10:00-10:45 | Connor Gascoigne | Imperial College London | EPITOME end of grant showcase: WP1 |
| 10:45-11.30 | Thiemo Fetzer | University of Warwick | TBC |
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00-12:45 | Xuewen Yu | LSE & Institute of Cancer Research | Policy Evaluation using a Hierarchical Bayesian Structural Time Series Model |
| 12:45-13:30 | Carl Bonander | University of Gotenburg | Spatial Models for Targeting and Evaluating Public Health Interventions |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30-15:15 | Annie Jeffery | University College London | Unravelling the UK’s Mental Health Crisis: Can the Bayesian Interrupted Time Series Help Explain 15 Years of Worsening Mental Health and Widening Inequalities |
| 15:15-16:00 | Rosie Hildersley & Jayati Das-Munshi | King’s College University | Ethnic inequalities in mental health admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: Natural experiment study designs and the limits of routine data |
| 16:00-16:45 | Ioannis Rotous & Gianluca Baio | University College London | From Reform to Reassessment: Universal Credit in the Shadow of Its Predecessor |
| 16:45-17:30 | Sophie Wickham | University of Liverpool | Evaluating welfare policy changes: using quasi experimental methods to assess mental health impacts |