Transforming insight into ACTION for families living with brain injury

Event Notes:

About the 2027 Ahead Together conference
For decades, research has documented the impact of acquired brain injury on families.

Learning from our previous Ahead Together events, our 2027 conference will focus on what to do with that knowledge.

Throughout the conference, leading brain injury professionals and family members will speak side-by-side to showcase interventions that work, innovations that have been developed inside everyday services, and changes that can be achieved without new funding – only new thinking.

Our 2027 Ahead Together speakers
Our line-up of speakers includes our regular experts who will bring fresh insights and new facets of their knowledge of the ABI field, family members sharing their individual experiences of brain injury, and a host of other leading professionals from across the brain injury community.

Hosted by:
Tracy Norris-Evans – Partner, Head of Injury Division at RWK Goodman
Dr Audrey Daisley – Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at Daisley Neuropsychology

Keynote speaker

• Lemn Sissay – Poet, Memoirist, Playwright, Curator and Broadcaster

Session chairs

• Dr Mark Holloway – Senior Brain Injury Case Manager and Expert Witness at Head First
• Memoona Ahmed – Poet, Trainee Clinical Psychologist and sibling to a brain injury survivor
• Rob Kuschel – Director and Advanced Practitioner Case Manager at Mill Bay Case Management and Occupational Therapy, and sibling to a brain injury survivor

Guest speakers confirmed so far

• Shahid Khan (AKA Naughty Boy) – DJ, Record Producer, Music Programmer and Songwriter with lived experience of a family member with a brain injury
• Phill Gill – Managing Director at PLG
• Dr Nicholas Behn – NIHR Senior Research Fellow, City St Georges, University of London
• Dr Shabnam Berry-Khan – Director of PsychWorks Associates, HCPC Clinical Psychologist and Case Manager
• Dr Phil Butler – Independent Social Worker at Cognitive Connections
• Sam Galvin – Brain Injury Support Worker and Team Leader at Community Case Management
• Tricia Grout – Partner at RWK Goodman
• Bernadette Hurley – Founder & Executive Director at Moss-Rose Cottage and mother of a daughter with brain injury
• Keeley Lengthorn – Family Partner and Head of Public Law Children, London at RWK Goodman