Digital Mental Health
The Digital Mental Health (DMH) Special Interest Group (SIG), brings together a diverse group of individuals interested in exploring how current and future digital technologies can support wellbeing and mental health.
Our membership includes scholars, professionals, administrators, clinicians, people with lived experience and the public, basically anyone interested in DMH. Our interests include the design, development, use and evaluation of DMH technologies that are responsible, acceptable, desirable and sustainable.
This SIG aims to combine research on a broad number of topics relevant to DMG with practical and applicable support and guidance. We meet online monthly and host regular in person events at the 糖心原创, United Kingdom.
If you would like to become a member, email Elvira.perez@nottingham.ac.uk
Our vision is to bring together a diverse group of individuals (scholars, professionals, people with lived experience, administrators) who are interested in exploring how current and future digital technologies can support wellbeing and mental health. We are particularly interested new technologies that can be designed, developed, used and retired in ways that are responsible, acceptable, desirable and sustainable. We aim to combine research on these topics with practical and applicable support and guidance.
The DMH Special Interest Group pursues activities and topics including:
- Identification of future and emerging DMH tech and trends
- Promoting dialogue and critical thinking, highlighting benefits and downsides of future and emerging DMH technologies
- Exploration of responsible practices of design and use of future and emerging DMH technologies
- Dissemination of learnings through various outputs, such as academic publications, posters, reports, lay papers, presentations, etc.
- Sharing upcoming opportunities such as training, conferences, grant applications
- Implementation of principles of responsible innovation with a focus on digital mental health.
Our values:
Events
Upcoming
The Eurovis 2026 Conference
Dates & Times: 8-12 June 2026, 9:00-17:30
Location: Trent Conference Centre, Unit 1, Easter Park, Lenton Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7 2PX, United Kingdom
Past events
Avatars for Dementia
A Multidisciplinary Workshop on Avatars for Dementia
Date and Times: Thursday 10th of July 2025 1000 to 1600
Location: Institute of Mental Health (Jubilee Campus) B27, Nottingham.
Blogs
To read our blogs please click here - Digital Mental Health Blogs