{"id":4599,"date":"2025-09-12T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelics\/?page_id=4599"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:54:33","slug":"presenters-contributors-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/presenters-contributors-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenters-Contributors 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All colloquium talks for the 2025-2026 academic year will be held in the Sir Henry Wellcome Building room G17<\/strong> (also online)<\/strong> from 3:30pm-5pm<\/strong> unless specified otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Henry Fisher (3rd October 2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dr Henry Fisher is the Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder of Clerkenwell Health, a CRO and clinical research site network specialising in psychiatry and CNS research, with a core focus on clinical trials with psychedelics. He leads on trial design, regulator engagement, clinical development advisory services and controlled drug licensing compliance. He holds a DPhil from Oxford in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Formerly, he has worked for Volteface drug policy think tank, The Beckley Foundation and The Loop. Since then Henry has founded three companies in the psychedelics and cannabis sectors and advised clients on R&D strategies, IP generation and research operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rebecca Harding (17th October 2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Harding is a 4th-year PhD student at the Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London, where she works on the UNITy project. Prior to her PhD, she was a Research Scientist at Clerkenwell Health, working in the psychedelic pharmaceutical industry. She completed her MSc in Translational Neuroscience at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, where her research used fMRI to investigate the differential effects of SSRIs and psilocybin in treating Major Depressive Disorder. Her current research focuses on how psychedelics alter neural function to drive therapeutic effects, with a particular emphasis on mechanisms underlying addiction. She applies naturalistic paradigms and network neuroscience methods in fMRI to elucidate the neurobiological changes that underpin lasting clinical outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yogi Hendlin (24th October 2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yogi Hale Hendlin is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy and member of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Hendlin is also a member of the The Center to End Corporate Harm at the University of California, San Francisco, and Principal of the Feral Ecologies Lab. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biosemiotics<\/em>, Hendlin is also editor of two books (Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective<\/em> and Being Algae: Transformations in Water, Plants<\/em>). Hendlin\u2019s work investigates ecologies of meaning, and takes seriously the implications of 5EA cognitive science that experience is distributed throughout many dimensions and emerges ecologically as an outside-in affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keith Williams, Laura Pustafi, Andr\u00e9e-Anne B\u00e9dard (Online; 7th November 2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Keith Wiliams<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University. His work focuses on better understanding how to be good relations with our more-than-human kin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Pustarfi<\/strong> is a lecturer in Philosophy and Religion and Director of the Psychedelic Certificate Program at CIIS. Her scholarly work examines trees and plants in Western thought with particular focus on an arboreal and vegetal ontology and ethics that respects plants themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andr\u00e9e-Anne<\/strong> is a traditional Western herbalist, clinician by training, and educator at heart. Her current work focuses on managing the Indigenous midwifery program in development at FNTI, an Indigenous Institute located in Tyendinaga, Mohawk Territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soraida Chindoy and Helen Knowles (Film Screening; 14th November 2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Soraida Chindoy is an indigenous guardian, mother and activist who is working to defend the sacred Putumayo mountains.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen Knowles is an artist working with expanded forms of moving image. Her practice examines the intersection of immateriality and life, focusing on responsibility, autonomy, and ethics in relation to technology, AI, and the non or more-than-human. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mourad Wahba (21st November 2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mourad is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Lead Clinician for the Care Pathway Enhancement (CaPE) Clinic, a specialist mood disorder research clinic within the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. Clinically, he works in the space between primary and secondary care, supporting people with mood disorders across a wide range of complexity. Academically, his focus is on novel and emerging treatments, with a particular interest in psychedelic therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hannah Farrimond (5th December 2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 Hannah Farrimond is an Associate Professor in Medical Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK. She analyses the socio-cultural shifts in meanings concerning drugs and pharmaceuticals (e.g. alcohol, smoking\/vaping, cannabis, psychedelics, sleeping medications). She focuses particularly on stigma change over time, so that we can better understand stigma, then challenge it through public health policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony Barnett (16th January 2026)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tony’s work explores the social and cultural contexts of alcohol and other drug use, treatment (including novel therapeutic interventions) and policy change. His work draws on critical social science methods to provide in-depth accounts of consumers, carers and clinicians\u2019 experiences of addiction treatment, care and recovery. He is currently focussing on a new program of work entitled \u201cThe psychedelic revival in addiction research and practice: A social and policy analysis in Australia and the UK<\/em>\u201d (funded by an Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2025 to 2028).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rob Taylor (30th January 2026)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 Robert is a DPhil research student and Senior Scholar at New College, University of Oxford. He received his Double First Class MA in History from New College and MPhil in American History from Cambridge, before working in education and social outreach in London. He is interested in the British counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s, and specifically its fascination with Indian music and spirituality. His research asks how Indian cultural forms became so prominent a mere generation after Indian independence from Britain and partition in 1947. The project was inspired by his own experiences of playing psychedelic music and numerous travels through India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bruce Parry (13th February 2026)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 Bruce Parry is a British filmmaker and author best known for the BBC series Tribe, Amazon, and Arctic. His work has involved living for extended periods with Indigenous communities around the world, exploring culture, ecology, ritual, and different ways of understanding mind and self. In recent years his focus has turned toward consciousness, animism, and the relationship between human attention, landscape, and responsibility. He is currently writing a book exploring power and equality through the lens of his experiences with Indigenous societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rob Edwards (27th February 2026)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rob Edwards is a former serviceman who served six years in the Parachute Regiment before transitioning to security and transportation operations in hostile environments around the world. Having personally experienced mental health challenges, he embarked on his own journey of healing, which led him to discover a profound new path. Through this transformative process, Rob developed a deep commitment to leading and supporting veterans through similar journeys of recovery and self-discovery. It was this healing journey that inspired the creation of The Way of the Warriors, establishing a foundation dedicated to supporting veterans\u2019 wellbeing and mental health through innovative therapeutic approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harm Reduction Panel (13th March 2026)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Roei Zerahia (27th March 2026)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Senior Faculty Member at the faculty of Engineering & the Co-Founder of MSICS Pharma – a pioneering company which produces innovative pharmaceutical naturally sourced GMP Psilocybin products. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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