Mental Health Workshop

Kirsty Fishburn writes:  on Monday 24^th April 2017, we had an inaugural Mental health Research Workshop, Chaired by Dr Kim Dent-Brown. The intention of the workshop was to bring like minded professionals together who wanted to meet, network and share research ideas. The key note speech was by our own Dean Prof Julie Jomeen, who set the scene with where current mental health research is and how we can have an impact on this. We had a guest speaker Dr Puvan Tharmanathan, RDS Adviser -Yorkshire and the Humber who talked to us about The NIHR Research Design Service – how it can help you.

We had delegates from across our Faculty of Health Sciences, the wider university academic’s and PhD students. We also had a great representation from our partners within the research community, from organisations such as the Humber Trust.

We all spoke about what had got us in the room and our journey to the present mental health research wants and needs... one of the main reasons for the workshop was to attempt to get tangible publish produced research out there from some of us in this workshop. We set up in groups to discuss our area of research and what we would like to put further efforts into for publication, or grant find.

Some of these topics that we wanted to further explore were:

• Early interventions
• Child and Adolescents Mental health Services
• Bridging the gap between adolescents and adult services.
• Substance misuse and dual diagnosis
• Personality Disorder
• Service Provisions
• Perinatal services evolvement

These were just to name a few....   

The workshop closed with plans to have follow up meetings to keep the momentum of energy the workshop had inspired going, to promote networking and an exchange of contact details. Then as inaugural delegates to speak to our peers for the next meeting, to keep this growing and gaining the recognition it needs and deserves.

If you would like to know more, please do not hesitate to contact myself or Dr Kim Dent-Brown who is undertaking a ‘secretary’ type role for the group.

Workshop on care of older people in SIngapore

Dr Jennifer Loke conducted a two-day workshop on promoting excellence in the care of older people in Singapore.  The workshop was organised by the charity Kampung Senang and 34 volunteers from various centres and homes caring for older people in the country.  The photographs show volunteers taking part in various activities such as reading with distorted lenses, mobilising with impaired vision and drinking with adapted drinking cups and straws.

Publication and workshop by Jacquie White

Jacquie White has co-authored:

Jacquie White

The Health Improvement Profile: A manual to promote physical wellbeing in people with severe mental illness
ISBN: 9781905539918
April 2015 • M&K Publishing • 104pp • £20.00
Dr Sheila Hardy, Senior Research Fellow, Northamptonshire
Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Jacquie White, Deputy Head,
Department of Psychological Health and Wellbeing, University of
Hull; Professor Richard J Gray, Leads a multidisciplinary Health Services Research group in Doha, Qatar

This practical guide, written by experts in mental health nursing, is designed to support
healthcare practitioners in checking the physical health of people with severe mental illness
(SMI).

WORKSHOP
Jacquie is also facilitating a workshop on campus on 5 May that can be booked and attended for free for NHS staff from Yorkshire and Humber via the UoH Online Shop at http://shop.hull.ac.uk  (via events and conferences.Hull Campus>FHSC) or direct:  http://shop.hull.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=31&catid=92&prodid=203 

Faculty Learning and Teaching workshop

The Faculty held a Learning and Teaching workshop on 22 November 2013. The workshop, attended by eight colleagues, was one in a series of events promoting the scholarship of learning and teaching in the Faculty.

The focus of the workshop was student engagement and student centred approaches.  Colleagues explored their own and others' experiences of promoting student engagement, sharing both problems and strategies for successful teaching. We then related our experiences to learning theories before discussing interdisciplinary examples of teaching at the cutting edge of practice.

Peter Draper

The workshop was facilitated by two of the University's National Teaching Fellows, Dr Peter Draper, Academic Lead for Staff Development (FHSC), and Dr Graham Scott, Deputy Head, Department of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences.

Graham Scott

  

The next event in the learning and teaching series will be a seminar by Dr John Unsworth of Northumbria University on the 6th of December who will present on 'Transforming the Assessment of Practice in Nursing'. This will be followed on 25th of February by Professor Phil Keeley (Manchester University) will give a paper entitled 'Seeking Recognition and Reward for Teaching and                                                 Learning'.

The workshops and seminars are supported by a grant from
the Higher EducationAcademy.

Consanguineous Marriage and Genetic Risk

Dr Parveen Ali led a workshop on Consanguineous Marriage and Genetic Risk, the session on 11 June 2013 was sub-titled Sharing of Findings and Learning and was based on Lessons learned from the Consanguineous Marriage and Genetic Risk project funded by NHS Leeds in which Dr Ali participated.  The workshop was organised by Health for All, Leeds and NHS Leeds and attended by health trainers, community development workers and community members.  For more information on the project email Parveen

Dr Parveen Ali addresses the workshop in Leeds