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We are pleased to announce a new workshop at HealTAC 2026: From patient narratives to text analytics insights: applying text analytics to scalable lived experience data for new discoveries.

This interactive two-hour workshop will explore how text analytics can be applied to patient-reported narratives and lived experience data at scale. Bringing together text analytics scientists, behavioural scientists, qualitative researchers, people with relevant lived experiences (PERLEs), PPIE contributors, and policy stakeholders, the session will examine the opportunities and challenges of working with patient-generated text for research and translational impact.

Participants will explore methodological, ethical, psychological, social, and legal dimensions of analysing patient voice at scale, and contribute to a shared process report and emerging framework for future work in this area.

The workshop is organised by Dr Saskia Sanderson, Data Science Lead for the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (TRC) Mission; Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London; and member of the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Informatics Theme.

Further details are available on the Workshop page.

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