In this new section of HealthTalk online you can find out about the experiences of health researchers of involving patients and members of the public in their research, by seeing and hearing people share their stories on film. Involvement is about research being carried out with or by members of the public, who may play a role in any or every aspect of the research process. HealthTalk researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 36 people (35 interviews) working in health research,…

The government's Green Paper for higher education signals the biggest change to how higher education is organised and governed in England for a generation.

The implications of the proposed changes are far reaching, with the impact being felt throughout all parts of the higher education sector. Institutions must start preparing for the changing architecture and initiate planning to ensure that they will be fit for the future landscape.…

City University London, Disability and Social Inclusion seminar on Friday January 22nd from 1.00 - 2.15pm



“Looking at illness in a very different way”: psychiatrists’ views of mental health recovery

With the development of recovery-based services (e.g. Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change (IMROC) programme to support local NHS and independent mental health service providers to become more ‘recovery’ oriented) and…

Papers are now invited for the following panel:



Anthropology of mental health: at the intersections of transience, 'chronicity' and recovery



*ASA 2016, University of Durham, 4-7 July 2016



*Convenors: Anna Lavis (University of Birmingham) and Karin Eli (University of Oxford)



Short outline:

This panel turns its attention to the anthropology of mental illness and distress. It…

The Working with Substance Use online resources aim to provide health and social care professionals with a basic understanding of substance use and an opportunity to enhance their practice.

The resources includes presentations, film clips from experts (both service users and professionals), animations, individual and group exercises, and practice scenarios to help apply what has been learned. Suggestions are made for future study and personal development.

These…

The second international conference on Innovative and Critical Approaches to Higher Education will be held at Roskilde University in Denmark, June 22nd to 24th, 2016. The purpose of the conference is to bring together scholars, students and administrators who are interested in the history, theory, and practice of progressive higher education and wish to rethink and reinvigorate its strong traditions in the globalized context of the 21st century. We are therefore not only interested in papers…

The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new ‘recovery’ focus in mental health services meaning that the voices of service users are finally being heard. Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience synthesises a narrative approach alongside an evidence-based review of current treatment by including Stephen Williams’ own personal…

This series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. This fourth report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency and are having an increasing effect on education. 

Read the…

IASSW invites proposals for projects, designed to advance social work education internationally. Grants of up to USD 4.000 are available for proposals that can be expected to contribute to the implementation of the IASSW Mission Statement, and to the enhancement of cooperation among schools of social work world-wide.

This is continuous aspect of IASSW activities but the final submission date for the next round of bids is the 31st of May 2016. Proposals (in…

The role of personal experiences of mental ill-health in medical sociological research

7 June 2016, University of Edinburgh…

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This Research in Practice briefing offers an overview of the field of adolescent mental health for frontline practitioners in teams offering family support, social work and youth work. It aims to provide a broad ‘map of the territory’ and to offer some practical guidelines and tools for frontline workers who may feel they carry much of the burden of these complex and worrying problems. The briefing focuses in particular on the concept of ‘mentalisation’, an area of specialist expertise…

The Centre for Advancement of Interprofessional Education – CAIPE – has a new membership category and is inviting people who have lived experience of health, social care and other services either as a user or as the carer of someone who uses services to become members.  CAIPE would be useful for people who have an interest in or contribute to  interprofessional education. Membership costs £10 for up to 3 years, and benefits include e-bulletins, website…

The workshop will take place in Brighton on 2-3 June 2016.  It is organised by the ERC Connectors Study & hosted by the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QQ.

The workshop will bring together researchers and activists concerned with the lived experiences of activism across the lifespan, with a particular emphasis on earlier and later life experiences. It has an interest in the spaces, places and…

If not, why not start the new year by subscribing.  Asylum is a bargain, at only £16 for a print and £12 for a digital subscription.

Asylum magazine - which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year - is a forum for free debate, open to anyone with an interest in psychiatry or mental health. 

It is a wonderful, and challenging, resource for us in teaching - see…