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May 8Monday
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The Porous University – A critical exploration of openness, space and place in Higher Education
May 8, 2017 to May 9, 2017 – University of the Highlands and Islands This two-day symposium arose out of a series of conversations and reflections on the nature of openness within Higher Education. It started with the observation that openness is increasingly seen as… Organized by University of the Highlands and Islands | Type: two, day, symposium
July 4Tuesday
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Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference
July 4, 2017 to July 5, 2017 – Edgehill University Grand Challenges: Social Work for Today and Tomorrow. The ‘Grand Challenge’ initiative seeks to identify ambitious yet achievable goals for society that mobilise the profession and capture the public… Organized by Edgehill University/ JUCSWEC | Type: two, day, conference
July 6Thursday
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Reconnecting through Engaged Learning and Scholarship: Impact, Frameworks, and Practice.
July 6, 2017 to July 7, 2017 – The Diamond Engaged learning and teaching can be understood as combining (inter)disciplinary knowledge with opportunities for students to learn with and from external partners, ‘real-world’ challenges, and exper… Organized by University of Sheffield | Type: two, day, conference
February 12Monday
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Global mental health and therapeutic assemblages: concepts, controversy and necessary tensions
February 12, 2018 to February 13, 2018 – University of Sheffield Global mental health as a field of study and practice involves a wide heterogeneous assemblage of actors and is a controversial field that despite huge achievements has also attracted much critique.… Organized by University of Sheffield and University of Melbourne | Type: two, day, conference
April 9Monday
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Race, Mental Health and State Violence: A Two-Day Symposium
April 9, 2018 to April 10, 2018 – CLO B01 Clore Management Centre There are many ways to understand how the state regulates and controls those within its domain along and between the lines of race and mental health. Whilst these two categories cannot be disentangle… Organized by School of Law, Birkbeck | Type: two, day, symposium
June 12Tuesday
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Releasing Potential: The Higher Education sector's contribution to adult and young people's mental health
June 12, 2018 at 6pm to June 13, 2018 at 7pm – Temple Hall, York St John University Universities are having to adapt to rapidly changing economic and demographic changes. One way in which they are doing so is through increasing engagement in their local communities within which High… Organized by York St John University | Type: two, day, conference
November 14Wednesday
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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AND BEYOND ‘RECOVERY’: TEN YEARS ON
November 14, 2018 to November 15, 2018 – University College Cork At the first critical perspectives conference, in 2009, recovery principles and practices were debated and discussed with a considerable optimism about their potential to radically change mental heal… Organized by Lydia Sapouna, Catherine McAuley and Harry Gijbels in association with Critical Voices Network | Type: two, day, conference
April 8Monday
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Student wellbeing and mental health: supporting successful transition
April 8, 2019 to April 9, 2019 – Celtic Manor Resort Student wellbeing and mental health is most vulnerable at times of transition, particularly for those entering their first year of higher education. Between them, delegates at the Admissions Confere… Organized by UCAS | Type: two, day, conference
May 16Thursday
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
May 16, 2019 to May 17, 2019 – Jury's Inn Waterfront This two-day international conference will provide delegates with a national and international view of sector policy developments, insights into the implementation of institu… Organized by Nature Research | Type: two, day, conference
May 17Friday
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Mad Hearts: The Arts and Mental Health
May 17, 2019 to May 18, 2019 – Queen Mary University of London This two-day conference explores productive, radical, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health, bringing together clinical, artistic and research perspectives that offer a re-interp… Organized by Maria Turri | Type: two, day, conference
Blog Posts
QMU launches the world's first Masters in Mad Studies
Posted by Jill Anderson on December 1, 2020 at 11:50 0 Comments 0 Likes
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh is launching the world’s first master’s degree in Mad Studies. The MSc Mad Studies course is primarily a course for graduates with lived experience of mental health issues. It has been hailed by a leading international Mad Studies academic as the most exciting piece of curriculum development in the last 20 years!
Mad Studies is a recognised academic discipline that explores the knowledge and actions that have grown…
ContinueUnlearning through Mad Studies: disruptive pedagogical praxis
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 26, 2020 at 19:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
Medical discourse currently dominates as the defining framework for madness in educational praxis. Consequently, ideas rooted in a mental health/illness binary abound in higher learning, as both curriculum content and through institutional procedures that reinforce structures of normalcy. While madness, then, is included in university spaces, this inclusion proceeds in ways that continue to pathologize madness and disenfranchise mad people.
This paper offers Mad…
ContinueStepchange: mentally healthy universities
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:48 0 Comments 0 Likes
Earlier this year, UUK published a refreshed version of its strategic framework, Stepchange: mentally healthy universities, calling on universities to prioritise the mental health of their students and staff by taking a whole university approach to mental health.
The Stepchange approach and shared set of principles inform the …
ContinueThe Autumn issue of Asylum magazine is out now
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:44 0 Comments 0 Likes
Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website:
Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson …
ContinueThink Ahead gets funding to boost its intake.
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:41 0 Comments 0 Likes
Fast-track mental health social work provider Think Ahead will expand its intake by 60% from next year following a government funding boost of at least £18m.
The Department of Health and Social Care has agreed a contract with Think Ahead to increase the number of trainees for its 2021 and 2022 cohorts from 100 to 160, with…
ContinueTransforming Mental Health Social Work videos
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:39 0 Comments 0 Likes
Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.
Transforming mental health social work - conference report
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:37 0 Comments 0 Likes
In February 2020 Health Education England and Skills for Care put on two major conferences about the role and development of mental health social work.
Leadership in mental health social work - web pages
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:33 0 Comments 0 Likes
A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs
Social work education and training in mental health, addictions and suicide: a scoping review protocol
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:29 1 Comment 1 Like
Social workers are among the largest group of professionals in the mental health workforce and play a key role in the assessment of mental health, addictions and suicide. Most social workers provide services to individuals with mental health concerns, yet there are gaps in research on social work education and training programmes. The objective of this open access scoping review is to examine literature on social work education and training in mental health, addictions and…
ContinueMental health nurse education: perceptions, access and the pandemic
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:25 0 Comments 0 Likes
With World Mental Health Day this Saturday, a new Nuffield Trust report discusses how more people might be attracted to apply to study mental health nursing, and the reasons why they might currently be less likely to do so.
Co-author Claudia Leone picks out some key findings.
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