SEPSIG events
Upcoming events
Details of upcoming events will be posted here and on the College's Events page.
SEPSIG15 – Neurodiversity in the athlete - November 2023
Our next SEPSIG conference will be taking place on Wednesday 22 November 2023, in person at the RCPsych in London.
This event will include presentations and workshops by both clinicians and lived-experience athletes in this important yet challenging area of sport.
Previous meetings
SEPSIG14 - Spring Conference - March 2023
Friday 31 March 2023, 9.30am - 3.30pm - online
View the SEPSIG strategy meeting minutes here.
SEPSIG executive strategy meeting - November 2022
Thursday 10 November 2022, 6.30pm
View the SEPSIG strategy meeting minutes here.
SEPSIG13 - Autumn Conference - October 2022
Friday 14 October 2022, 9.00am - 4:30pm
In-person event at the RCPsych
View the SEPSIG13 business meeting minutes here.
SEPSIG12 Cricketer Mental Health and Performance - May 2022
Friday 6 May 8.30am-5pm 2022
In-person event at Burleigh Court, Loughborough University, Leicestershire
SEPSIG Autumn Webinar - October 2021
Thursday 14 October - 2-5pm
Please see the programme for further information.
SEPSIG Spring Webinar - March 2021
Wednesday 3 March - 1-5pm
Please see the programme for further information.
SEPSIG Autumn Webinar - September 2020
Wednesday 9 September - 2-5pm
Please see the programme for further information.
SEPSIG Autumn Meeting - September 2019
Our Autumn conference was be held on Friday 20 September at the Institute of Sport Exercise and Health on Tottenham Court Road, London.
Please see the programme for more information.
A summary of the conference can be found below:
SEPSIG Spring Meeting - March 2019
We held our Spring meeting on Friday 22 March 2019 at Manchester Institute of Health and Performance
Please see the programme for further information.
A summary of the conference and minutes of the business meeting can be found below:
SEPSIG Autumn Meeting - Friday 21 September 2018
The Autumn 2018 meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Sport and Exercise Psychiatry Special Interest Group was held at the Institute of Sport Exercise and Health (ISEH) in central London on 21 September and was a great success. The group are grateful for the support of ISEH in providing a tremendous venue for the event and also owe a huge debt of thanks to Tony Adams who headlined and opened the conference.
A summary of the conference and minutes of the business meeting can be found below:
SEPSIG Spring Meeting – Friday 2 March 2018
Despite the severe weather conditions and a last-minute change of venue the spring meeting of the Sport and Exercise SIG was the best attended yet. The day’s programme included the following presentations and made for some interesting discussions.
- Cricket and mental health – Phil Hopley & Lynsey Williams (Player Development Manager, Professional Cricketers’ Association)
- Psychology/Psychiatry interface in sport – Tim Rogers & Stewart Cotterill (Chair British Psychological Society – Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology).
- Mental health in the world of dance – Nicoletta P. Lekka with Erin Sanchez & Helen Laws (One Dance UK)
- Physical activity and old age – Reshad Malik
Full details of the programme and the business meeting that followed can be found below:
Special thanks to all attendees, presenters and the good people of Woodbrooke who stepped in at the last minute to host the event.
SEPSIG Autumn Meeting - Friday 22 September 2017
25 delegates contributed to the largest meeting yet of the Sport and Psychiatry SIG on Friday 22 September 2017 in the Institute of Sport Exercise & Health on Tottenham Court Road, London. Notes from the event, including details of the business meeting which followed, can be found here. Presenter slides have also kindly been made available by each speaker. Many thanks to them all.
SEPSIG Strategy Day
Members of the Sport and Exercise SIG had a successful strategy day in Leeds on March 16. Attendees are pictured above. Our grateful thanks go to Allan Johnston and his team at PHIL for hosting us and to our guest speakers Amit Mistry and Tim Rogers. Tim will now be leading a project to describe ‘the competencies of a sports psychiatrist’ with help from other group members while Amit will continue his work on exercise interventions across the span of mental health problems. Work is also ongoing to build databases of relevant literature. The next group meeting is planned for London in September.