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Location (town and country)
Galway, Ireland
Institution
National University of Ireland, Galway
Discipline
Higher Education/Academic Development
Job title
Lecturer in Academic Practice and Higher Education
Areas of interest and expertise
Academic Identity
Migration and learning
Critical Policy Studies
Reason for joining the mhhehub
My own experience to depression has sensitised me not only to this reality but also to the 'cost of coping' experienced by academics - the cost to them, their students, their families and friends.
Website:
http://worriedteacher.wordpress.com/

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Autoethnography of How the Neoliberal University can be Toxic for Our Mental Health

Posted on November 3, 2016 at 12:36 0 Comments

I am pleased to announce that the Journal of Education Policy has just published (online) my autoethnographic critique of the neoliberal university and how it can impact on our mental health.  It draws on my personal experience of mental distress in the context of the 2014 REF.  Below is the abstract and a link to the article.  I hope that this can be a positive contribution to debates about the dehumanising effects of managerial practices in higher education and a call for the assertion of…

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Why do I come to MHHE?

Posted on March 21, 2016 at 12:15 1 Comment

Why do I come to MHHE?  Good question.  The truth is that I haven't really participated in MHHE in any consistent manner.  I dip in and out, depending on the things that come up on Jill's regular announcements.  Again, thanks to Jill, some of my own blogging about mental health in academia has been shared - though I have been very quiet on this front for a while.

It is partly an ambivalence about identification with the categories of 'mental health service user', 'depression', 'mad…

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When Universities are Desperate to Look Different: League Tables, Product Symbolism and the Meaninglessness of Academic Labour

Posted on May 30, 2015 at 11:17 0 Comments

This is a recent post where I explore the nature of the contemporary university and the impact on the wellbeing of academics.  This is part of a series of notes towards an autoethnography of academic well being and the neo-liberal university. 

http://wp.me/p494Ww-17

The Toxic Academy and the Broken Academic

Posted on July 16, 2014 at 10:06 2 Comments

I am writing about the experience of mental illness in higher education.  Below I have a number of links to my blog where I share some of the work-in-progress.  Wherever I have presented this or discussed it I have received a massive response.  Also, recently I have come across discussions around the 'Slow University' (http://myweb.lmu.edu/btreanor/Slow_University.html), 'Slow Science' (…

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QMU launches the world's first Masters in Mad Studies

Posted by Jill Anderson on December 1, 2020 at 11:50 0 Comments

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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Unlearning through Mad Studies: disruptive pedagogical praxis

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 26, 2020 at 19:00 0 Comments

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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Stepchange: mentally healthy universities

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:48 0 Comments

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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Think Ahead gets funding to boost its intake.

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:41 0 Comments

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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Transforming Mental Health Social Work videos

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:39 0 Comments

Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.

See the video playlist.

Transforming mental health social work - conference report

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:37 0 Comments

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. 

Download the conference report.

Leadership in mental health social work - web pages

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:33 0 Comments

A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs

View the web pages here.

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

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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Mental health nurse education: perceptions, access and the pandemic

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:25 0 Comments

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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