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 As part of the Festival of Social Science, a wellbeing event was hosted by Exeter University to discuss surf therapy and to demonstrate its growing body of evidence within wellbeing and mental health strategies. GRiST was invited because we are working with the police and the university to help assess the suitability of referrals to the SURFWELL programme. More details will emerge as the project progresses.

Venue: Exeter Mercure Rougemont Hotel, Queen Street, EX43SP, Exeter

GRaCE-AGE has been running for three years and officially ended on December 31st. In reality, its work continues, particularly with the new eGRiST Ltd that will provide a conduit for the consortium to build on its success and really make a difference to society. The December newsletter gives all the details. Please download and disseminate it to anyone you think would be interested in what we are doing.

The eGRiST team have been invited to attend a workshop with the Office for Students following the approval of a proposal for a student version of meGRiST, EduGRiST, to be developed and rolled out to schools and universities across the UK.

Friends House, London, location of the workshop

eGRiST director Dr Chris Buckingham, a lecturer at Aston University, was invited to the Silicon Canal Technology Awards by Aston students taught by him in the AI modules.

Attendees at the Silicon Canal Technology Awards

Chris Buckingham, eGRiST's managing director, attended an entrepreneurial seminar held at iCentrum, Innovation Birmingham, to gather some ideas and inspiration for eGRiST's spin-out from Aston University.

Participants at the iCentrum seminar

Dr Chris Buckingham, eGRiST managing director, is conducting research in collaboration with Birmingham City Council to find out how technology can be used to improve adult health and social care.

eGRiST continues its commitment to disseminating research expertise by delivering another ATHENS module at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Students at a workshop for the ATHENS module

NHS practitioners in Cumbria use GRiST to assess and help manage risks to their service users. Today, eGRiST met with NHS managers in Cumbria for an important discussion around how GRiST can best support the whole clinical decision making process for mental health.

The Heathcotes Group provides person-centred, specialist residential care for adults with learning disabilities and mental illness, with over 300 placements across 50 specialist services in the UK. GRiST is now being used by the Heathcotes Group to help assess and manage risk for their service users.

Boost Resilience is a suite of interventions built by Prospects, part of the Shaw Trust, designed to empower young people to protect and improve their own mental health. Prospects has agreed to partner with eGRiST to begin integrating GRiST's powerful assessment functionality with Boost Resilience interventions.