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Ian Light Award
The late Ian Light, service user consultant and lecturer in health and social care at City University London, was a founder member of the Developers of User and Carer Involvement in Education (DUCIE) network.
This award, in Ian's name, aimed to support and nurture user and carer involvement development workers employed in UK higher education, enhancing their effectiveness and capacity to effect change.
The award was open to anyone involved in supporting the development of infrastructure for user and carer involvement in higher education institutions. Priority was given to applications from workers for whom this is the sole focus or main purpose of their role.
The award aimed to support collaborative projects developed in partnership between two development workers and was for work in pairs.
Five of the pairs who received awards wrote up their projects for the benefit of others - see below.
2010 Award winners
1) Sandra Duggan and Pat Walton
Project title: Creating a service user and carer centre on the virtual learning environments (VLEs) at the Universities of Teesside and York
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2) Joan Cook and Isabel Turner
Project title: Independent Teaching and Training Policy
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3) Valerie Gant and Judith Davies
Project title: Crossing Boundaries - the role of development workers in promoting the expert knowledge of service users and carers in social work education.
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2009 Award winners
1) Carol Massey (Havering College) and John Macdonough (LSBU)
Project title: London User Involvement Network
Project title: From Principles to Practice
2) Barrie Holt (University of Huddersfield) and Chris Essen (University of Leeds)
Project title: Research network and workshop for service users and carers in developing research skills and capabilities within West Yorkshire Universities
2008 Award winners
1) Chris Essen (University of Leeds) and Lisa Malihi-Shoja (University of Central Lancashire)
Project title: A shared exploration of ‘community engagement' as a comparative approach to ‘service user and carer involvement' in developing relevant health and social care professional education.
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2) Debbie Kouzarides (University of York) and Gina Hardesty (Lincoln University)
Project title: Service User and Carer Led Consultation Surgery for Students
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3) Liz Lefroy (Glyndŵr University) and Pam Hutton (Havering College of Further and Higher Education)
Project title: Getting to grips with participation - initial training for service users and carers who want to get involved
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Ian Light Award Publications.
Developing a User and Carer Centre on the VLE
Community Engagement as an Approach
Blog Posts
Humanising health and social care - some links
Posted by Jill Anderson on November 5, 2018 at 14:29 0 Comments 0 Likes
Some links to project with a focus on the mental health of mental health professionals and/or humanising health and social care.
Action for Careforce Wellbeing
https://survivingwork.org/action-for-care-worker-wellbeing/
In2gr8mentalhealth
Destigmatising the experience of mental ill-health in mental health professionals…
ContinueKeeping Control - animation
Posted by Jill Anderson on November 3, 2018 at 10:10 0 Comments 0 Likes
This animation was commissioned to disseminate the findings from a research project carried out at Middlesex University.
The project set out to address an important gap in research and practice knowledge relating to ‘disability hate crime’, targeted violence and hostility against people with mental health…
ContinueAlternatives to Coercion in Mental Health Settings - Literature Review
Posted by Jill Anderson on November 3, 2018 at 10:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
A Melbourne Social Equity Institute research team is examining ways of avoiding coercive practices to ensure people experiencing mental health crises are treated with dignity and respect. Most recently, the team undertook a systematic review of global practices that aim to reduce, prevent and end…
Kindness, Emotions and Human Relationships - the blind spot in public policy: new report
Posted by Jill Anderson on November 3, 2018 at 10:00 0 Comments 1 Like
There is growing recognition of the importance of kindness and relationships for societal wellbeing. But talking about kindness does not fit easily within the rational lexicon of public policy.
Julia Unwin’s report, for the Carnegie Trust, Kindness, emotions and human…
ContinueJournal of autoethnography for health and social care.
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 17, 2018 at 17:32 0 Comments 0 Likes
This journal aims to provide a forum for opening intellectual curiousity and exploration via auto ethnographic enquiry. The journal casts a critical eye over the material, social, cultural and political worlds we inhabit.
Keeping Control - animation
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 12, 2018 at 11:00 0 Comments 1 Like
“IF BAD THINGS HAPPEN AND THEN YOU ARE NOT HELPED OR PROTECTED THAT MAKES IT MUCH WORSE”
This animation was commissioned to disseminate the findings from a research project carried out at Middlesex…
Action for Care Workers' Wellbeing
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 12, 2018 at 10:30 1 Comment 2 Likes
Yesterday, on World Mental Health Day (10 October 2018), Action for Care-Workers Wellbeing (ACW) was launched.
Facilitated by BASW, ACW is a collaborative network of professionals from the NHS and social care who represent a wide range of key UK caring professions (Nursing, General Practice, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work and Paramedics).
The group’s aim is to raise awareness of stress and burnout within the health and social care workforce, identify solutions, and propose…
ContinueAbstracts and reviewers wanted: International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 5, 2018 at 10:14 0 Comments 0 Likes
Upcoming changes to the Mental Health and Mental Capacity Acts: video of SCIE webinar
Posted by Jill Anderson on September 27, 2018 at 15:17 0 Comments 0 Likes
In September 2018, SCIE hosted a webinar to discuss the forthcoming changes to the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act. The webinar reflected on the important changes in how people's rights are protected. A panel of policy and practice experts in both pieces of legislation helped practitioners, academics and others reflect on these important changes.
ContinueMinds, Madness, Medicine: should we change the way we treat mental illnesses? - video of debate at the Hay festival
Posted by Jill Anderson on September 23, 2018 at 7:42 0 Comments 0 Likes
Deaths from heart disease have fallen by almost two thirds since the 1960s.Yet outcomes for those with mental illness, from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, have not improved for decades. Is this because we have the wrong diagnoses? Might neuroscience provide more precise descriptions and therefore more effective treatment? Or is mental health too complex for us to understand it in mere…
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