Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution

Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Edinburgh, 6th Sept 2013

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Keynote speaker: Professor Heidi Mirza (University of London)

Critical pedagogies challenge the notion that knowledge and teaching methods can be value-neutral. Our relationships within…

Janet Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public author. The author of twelve novels, four story collections, one book of poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even at the height of her success Frame shunned publicity, which had the effect of making the media and her readership even more intrusively interested.

Frame's story is extraordinary. As her biographer Michael King said, "her family was an anvil on which disasters fell". But it was the issue of Frame's mental…

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‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority

Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 23-25 August 2013…

A collection of essays by Conservative MPs.

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Royal Holloway, University of London - 10-12 July 2013

Throughout the history of social work and social work education there have been struggles. Recent years have proven to be particularly challenging, and like previous challenging eras, today we witness collective strength and creative approaches to pushing back against negative forces in our environments. This year's JSWEC conference focuses on these positive forces within the profession and social work…

Asylum magazine is:

• For humane and democratic alternatives to traditional psychiatry

• A forum for free and open debate and discussion about controversial issues in mental health and psychiatry

• A platform for service users and survivors to express their views and voices, as well as for frontline workers, academics and allies

• A place for the discussion of experience, ideas and campaigning around…

I have added some links to this evolving collection on bundlr: 

http://bundlr.com/b/academia-and-mental-health

See also 'student mental health':

http://bundlr.com/b/student-mental-health

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12th February 2013 - 11th June 2013, University of Leeds School of Healthcare

Patient, Carer and Public Involvement in healthcare is a cornerstone of Government policy, influenced initially by the emergence of the broad service user and public engagement movement. It has been supported, encouraged and deemed good practice by the Health related professions and their regulatory bodies (CHRE 2012). More recently Higher Education is also recognising the value of effective…

The philosophy of mind is one of the most exciting areas within philosophy. It is concerned with questions about the nature of mind and the relation between our minds and the physical world. This online course provides an introduction to philosophy of mind by introducing participants to the mind-body problem, one of the most intractable problems in philosophy.

Students will be guided through their reading of various classical and contemporary works on the mind-body problem, and…

'This inter-disciplinary research conference seeks to explore issues of madness across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. We are also interested in exploring the place of madness in persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand the place of…

Medfest is a one month film festival, touring the UK in February-March 2013 in 20 universities. It will culminate with a showcase event at the Royal Society of Medicine. This year’s theme, “The Power of Medicine”, aims to provoke animated debate around a number of political, social and artistic issues, which will appeal to a wide audience. The panellists are chosen from a range of backgrounds: doctors, filmmakers, medical ethicists, social scientists…

Tulisa - My Mum and me is an hour long documentary film directed by Rowan Deacon featuring the singer songwriter Tulisa Contostavlos, formerly a member of the group N-Dubz but now a solo artist and judge on the ITV entertainment programmeX-Factor. The film, which was made for the BBC in 2010, is an account of Tulisa’s life as a young child and teenager growing up with her mother who has a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder.  Presented and narrated by Tulisa, she meets…

This story - by Tarsem Singh-Cooner - contains the rationale to a 7-minute film outlining how Facebook and an enquiry-based blended learning design were combined to help students develop professional social media practices.

http://storify.com/Akali65/combining-facebook-and-enquiry-based-blended-learn

Watch free documentaries online.  May be of use in teaching (includes 'the Doctor who Hears Voices'):

http://documentarystorm.com/

TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute…

CommonGround is a US web-based application that helps people prepare to meet with psychiatrists and arrive at the best decisions for treatment and recovery.  There are details on the website here: https://www.patdeegan.com/commonground/about

Thought provoking issue of Studies in Social Justice.  All articles are free to download.

See here.