Australian Lifestyle Psychiatry Symposium 2026

Lifestyle Psychiatry Researchers Invited: Join the inaugural symposium to collaborate, connect, and advance research priorities in Australia

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.
• Our keynote plenary speaker, Prof Adrienne O'Neil, will present "Understanding the harms and benefits of lifestyle psychiatry: lessons from three clinical trials".

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: PLSCF. We encourage you to download this document for your own reference.

While registering, you can opt-in to attend the pre-symposium satellite event, No mental health without oral health: a research priority-setting consensus building workshop for (included in your ALPS registration). More information can be found on the ALPS website.

Registration includes afternoon tea on Day 1, and morning tea and lunch on Day 2. Canapés and drinks will be provided at the Welcome Reception, and Deakin Downtown offers coffee stations throughout both days.

For more information about the symposium, including abstract submissions, 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 alps@deakin.edu.au.