Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
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
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
November 21, 2016 to November 22, 2016 – ANU Commons The Service User Academia symposium has been run annually since 2011 for the purposes of advancing the discipline of service user academia - the meaningful involvement of service users in mental heal… Organized by International Association of Service User Academia | Type: 2, day, symposium
September 29, 2016 from 10am to 4pm – Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre A symposium bringing together the disciplines of medicine, sociology and philosophy to explore how narrative helps us to understand the experiences and lives of people who engage with psychiatry. In… Organized by Birmingham City University | Type: one, day, symposium
July 11, 2016 to July 12, 2016 – University of Surrey This Two-Day Symposium will bring together academics and postgraduate research students who have theoretical and empirical interest in recovery in the context of mental health, physical illness or in… Organized by University of Surrey | Type: two, day, symposium
December 1, 2014 to December 2, 2014 – University of Otago This symposium is for: Service user academics wanting to confer about: the work of service user academics developing research and teaching skills the barriers and challenges to progressing service u… Organized by Sarah Gordon | Type: two, day, symposium
June 13, 2014 from 11:30am to 4:30pm – University of Wolverhampton, City Campus The British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Mental Health Study Group is 10 years old this year. Its programme of work has included exploration of links between academic sociology and social… Organized by BSA sociology of mental health study group | Type: symposium
May 8, 2014 from 2pm to 5pm – Education Building, Room 1.02. University of Sheffield Will include brief presentations to spark debate and conversation: Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield) - defining and contesting austerity: the case of dis/ability Nick Hodge (Sheffield Hallam Univ… Organized by University of Sheffield | Type: symposium
September 6, 2013 all day – University of Edinburgh Critical pedagogies challenge the notion that knowledge and teaching methods can be value-neutral. Our relationships within academia reproduce or negotiate those of society as a whole, and the classr… Organized by Lena Wånggren and Maja Milatovic (University of Edinburgh) | Type: interdisciplinary, symposium
June 12, 2013 to June 13, 2013 – Lancaster University Conference Centre This two day event will introduce the Curriculum Guide on Mental Health and Distress and, in the light of its contents, explore approaches to learning and teaching about mental health. The symposiu… Organized by mhhe in partnership with the HEA | Type: two, day, symposium
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website:
Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson …
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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…
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Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.
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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.
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A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs
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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…
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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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