About this Event
Dates: Thursday 19th March 12:30pm – 5pm, and Friday 20th March 9am – 4pm, 2026
Location: Deakin Downtown Corporate Centre, Level 12, Tower 2, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne
Join leading researchers advancing the field of lifestyle psychiatry at the inaugural Australian Lifestyle Psychiatry Symposium; a landmark event uniting researchers across all domains of lifestyle psychiatry to drive collaboration, set national research priorities, and spark innovation.
Program highlights include:
- Hands-on workshops to collaboratively develop actionable strategies, innovative projects, and competitive grant applications that advance our research priorities.
- Thought-provoking panel sessions featuring leading experts and lived experience voices to drive critical discussion on challenges and future directions in lifestyle psychiatry.
- Dynamic rapid-fire presentations to spotlight cutting-edge research, highlight overlapping interests, and spark new interdisciplinary collaborations.
This is a must-attend event for senior academics, early-career researchers, and graduate students eager to shape the future of mental health research in Australia.
As part of the symposium, you’ll have the unique opportunity to participate in a research priority-setting project (Deakin University HREC Project ID: 2025/HE001221), which will inform a coordinated national research agenda publication. Please view the Plain Language Statement and Consent Form: . We encourage you to download this document for your own reference.
For more information about the symposium, including abstract submissions and travel grants, visit the ALPS website.
Brought to you by: International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and LifePsych Society.
Spaces are limited—secure your place now!
For any questions, please email [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
AUD 70.00
