November 2013 Blog Posts (29)

UK National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement - Ambassador Scheme

Are you passionate about HEI public engagement? Are you keen to develop your own experience and skills in this area? Would you like to inspire your institution to develop their public engagement work?

Public Engagement Ambassadors will be supported to develop their own understanding and experience of public engagement, act as change agents within their own organisation, share their expertise and enthusiasm for public engagement nationally and to contribute to…

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Added by Jill Anderson on November 20, 2013 at 11:23 — No Comments

New group on the hub - for AMHP programme leads.

Kate Karban has set up this group. Join it here.

Added by Jill Anderson on November 19, 2013 at 16:34 — No Comments

Flexible Pedagogies: new pedagogical ideas

This HEA report identifies six 'new pedagogical ideas' for the future:

  • learner empowerment – actively involving students in learning development and processes of ‘co-creation’ that challenge learning relationships and the power frames that underpin them, as part of the revitalisation of the academic project itself;
  • future-facing education – refocusing learning towards engagement and change processes that help people to consider…
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Added by Jill Anderson on November 13, 2013 at 20:16 — No Comments

Working together to support student wellbeing

mhhe contributed to a Higher Education Academy event on student wellbeing, held in York on 6 November.  See HERE for details of our presentation. 

Added by Jill Anderson on November 9, 2013 at 18:16 — No Comments

Community of Interest Looking After Ourselves

On the 18th of December from 12.30 to !.30 pm there will be an online discussion on the importance of "Looking After Ourselves" this will be on the Knowledge Hub which is part of the college of Social Work where I have instigated the establishment of a Community of Interest in Looking After Ourselves Please see links below for details you will need to join the Knowledge Hub which can be accessed via the College of Social Work website : …
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Added by Mike Bush on November 8, 2013 at 11:59 — No Comments

Health and Social Care Education: Volume 2, Issue 2

New edition of 'Health and Social Care Education' - open access journal of the HEA health and social care cluster - out now.

Read the articles 

Added by Jill Anderson on November 6, 2013 at 21:01 — No Comments

AMHP programme leads

Last week a couple of us initiated a discussion amongst AMHP programme leads.  It was a great opportuhnity to start to share ideas and experiences.  Other people have also indicated their interest in being part of this in future and we will set another date for early next year with plenty of notice.

I have also requested a group on the Hub that people can join if they are responsible for AMHP programmes.  Hopefully this will be available soon.

Thanks to Jill Anderson and Bill…

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Added by Kate Karban on November 6, 2013 at 19:03 — 3 Comments

Social Care and Health Inequalities web resource

This web resource aims to introduce the concepts of health inequalities and provide practical examples of the ways in which all of social work practice contributes to tackling health inequalities. It has been developed by a group of social work academics and practitioners on behalf of the Social Work and Health Inequalities Network. We hope that you will contribute examples of good practice and thus help to raise the profile of social work in this important policy and practice…

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Added by Jill Anderson on November 5, 2013 at 12:54 — No Comments

Vacancy: Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University - bipolar disorder

Senior Research Associate
Lancaster University -Health Research
Ref: A826
Salary: £31,331 to £36,298
Closing Date: 12 November 2013
Interview Date: 27 November 2013
An…
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Added by Jill Anderson on November 1, 2013 at 10:23 — No Comments

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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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