"Meeting black users' work aspirations" - a workshop by Ben Davidson, Devan Marston & Patrick Williams at the MIND conference "Opportunity Knocks - Employment and Mental Health: Creativity v. Discrimination" Connaught Hall, London 13.5.97

Keynote speech at Pathfinder's "Conference to Launch a 'Charter for the Employment of People who have Experienced Mental Health Problems'" Conference Centre, Springfield Hospital, 6.6.97

"Meeting Service Users' Work Aspirations" - a parallel presentation by Ben Davidson and Patrick Williams at the RCN Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research's conference "Extending the Boundaries" St. Catherine's College, Oxford 8.9.97

Panelist on final plenary session debate, 6th International Congress on Mental Health Nursing"Mental Health & the Millenium - difficult decisions in dangerous worlds" (final day theme, 10.10.97 "User challenges - whose rewards?") Kensington Town Hall, London.

Poster presentation at the 6th International Congress on Mental Health Nursing 8/9/10th October 1997 by Rosetta Young, Richard Buckfield and Ben Davidson, Kensington Town Hall, London.

"The Pathfinder User Employment Project - A day of briefings and seminars" by Ben Davidson & Rachel Perkins, Cardiff NHS Trust 22.10.97.

"The NHS as Employer: the development of equal opportunities in Pathfinder Mental Health Services NHS Trust" - a parallel presentation by Ben Davidson and Rachel Perkins at a conference hosted by the Employers Forum on Disability/Kings College Centre for Mental Health Service Development "Employment for All - gaining and sustaining real jobs", ORT Conference Centre, London 19.11.97

"Mad to work here - the User Employment Project at Pathfinder Mental Health Services NHS Trust" - a workshop by Rachel Perkins and Ben Davidson at a conference hosted by Pavillion Publishing in association with Outset "Working Lives", ORT House Conference Centre, London 11.2.98

"Pathfinder's User Employment Project" - a speech by Ben Davidson at the AGM of West Dorset Mental Health Forum, Dorchester 8/5/98 and presentation to the Trust Board of Dorset Community NHS Trust, Dorchester 13/4/99

Employing users as carers - two workshops by Ben Davidson at the Pavillion conference 'Rehabilitation in the Community, Hillscourt conference centre, Birmingham, 18/5/99