Past events

SDHI Webinar

‘Ageing and compound caregivers of people with learning disabilities’ Professor Liz Perkins, Associate Director, Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, presented her Webinar on Thursday 18th April. The Webinar recording can be found here

SDHI Seminar

‘Disability Surveillance using National Household Surveys in the United States: Where have we been and where are we going?’, Eric Lauer, Research Specialist, Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, United States presented the above seminar on Monday 25th March. A recording of this seminar will be available shortly.

SDHI Webinar

‘Secondary datasets in disability and health: tools for researchers using United States datasets’ Arun Karpur and William Erickson, Cornell University, New York presented the above SDHI Webinar on Thursday 6^th December. A recording of this webinar is now available on line or to download.

SDHI’s 2nd Day of Public Engagement

As part of the Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science and Dundee Science Festival, SDHI once again hosted a day of public engagement ‘Taking control of wellbeing and social participation’ on Saturday the 3rd of November from 10am to 3pm in Dundee Central Library, Wellgate Shopping Centre.

Health and Wellbeing through Literature, Film & Theatre by Lisa Nicoll

SDHI hosted a series of events presented by Lisa

Saturday 3rd November at 1pm - Short Play (written and performed by Lisa)

Acceptance is Lisa’s first one woman play. Based on true stories, follows the story of Scarlet, 30, who since the age of 15 has spent her life trying to fit in and be liked and loved by others – friends, family and men. Pressured by her need to be popular and fit into her surroundings she finds the easiest way to make herself feel confident, strong, chatty and liked is to go out and have a drink.

Thursday 18th October at 5pm - Film presentation and discussion

Caked follows the story of teenager Jess who struggles to keep her family together after her father is sent to prison. Jess becomes a carer for her mum who has not left her bed for weeks and for her younger sister who has become quiet and withdrawn. Jess works in a shop, studies at school and cooks and cleans. She shuts everyone else out in a bid to protect her family and in doing so takes a path she would not have chosen…………

Thursday 4th October at 5pm - Film presentation and discussion

Wasteland is a short film written & directed by Lisa Nicoll. It is based on research carried out with teenagers in the Coatbridge Locality. Over a series of 7 weeks Lisa gained stories about what it is like to live in the area as a teenager, she then brought all the stories together and wrote the short drama script Wasteland.

For further information about Lisa visit www.lisanicoll.co.uk

SDHI Webinar

‘Health professionals’ beliefs about domestic abuse and the issue of Disclosure’ Dr Caroline Bradbury-Jones, School of Nursing & Midwifery and Professor Julie Taylor, School of Nursing & Midwifery and Head of Strategy and Development (Physical Abuse in High Risk Families) NSPCC presented the above SDHI Webinar on Monday 15th October. This webinar can now be viewed at
http://bit.ly/RtR7bp
Please note, in order to view it you would need a Java enabled web browser. Some mobile devices are not enabled at this time. Please continue the discussion by emailing us at SDHI @dundee.ac.uk.

SDHI Seminar

“Employer practices in retention, advancement, and inclusion of people with disabilities” Susanne Bruyère, Professor of Disability Studies, Director of Employment & Disability Institute, ILR School, Cornell University on Monday 17th September 2012
For further information please see Susanne Bruyere seminar 17 September 2012 flyer

Susanne’s presentation is available to view

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Pre-Viva PhD Seminar

“A realistic evaluation approach to understanding the uptake of cardiovascular health checks”, Ruth Dryden

Tuesday 18th September 2012 at 11.30am
Esk/Bruar, The Mackenzie Building, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee
For further information please see Ruth Dryden viva seminar flyer

SDHI Seminar

‘Cancer rehabilitation and family-focused preventive intervention’, Catherine Marshall, Research Professor, Educational Psychology, Northern Arizona University

Tuesday 10th July, 2012 at 4.00pm

Baxter 1.36, 1st Floor, Tower Building, University of Dundee
for further details please click Catherine Marshall seminar 10 July 2012

The video stream of the presentation is now available for viewing.

SDHI Webinar

‘Public Health and Disability: Unlikely but emerging partners’, Don Lollar, Director of Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Professor, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University in Portland

Thursday 21st June, at 5.00pm (UK time)
(Don Lollar webinar)

Catch up with the webinar here

SDHI Seminar

Rethinking the ‘war on obesity’: an ethical argument, Dr Stacy Carter, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney

Friday 18th May 2012, 2.00pm-4.00pm

Room 2F13, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
Dr Carter’s presentation will be available shortly

Centre for Medical Education Seminar (Co-hosted with SDHI)

‘Communication matters: doctors must learn with, from and about colleagues and patients’, Professor Alan Bleakley, University of Plymouth

Tuesday 15th May 2012, 1.00pm-2.00pm

Room 2S13, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
Professor Bleakley’s presentation can be viewed here

SDHI Webinar

‘Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS): Challenges for people with low literacy and learning disabilities’, Karen Ritchie, Head of Knowledge Management and Deepa Jahagirdar, Research Associate, Health Improvement Scotland

Wednesday 9th May 2012

Sdhi webinar proms

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The full webinar can be viewed here

SDHI participation in Meet the Scientist

SDHI was present at the recent “Meet the Scientist” event in the Dundee Science Center. The event allowed school children and the public to meet and discuss some of the scientific work taking place in The Universities of Dundee, St Andrews and Abertay.

SDHI asked people to prioritise what they value about health care apart from their health.

SDHI Webinar

‘Surviving Gun Violence Project’, Cate Buchanan, Director of the Surviving Gun Violence Project

Thursday 15th March 2012, 10.00am (UK time)
You can view the slides from the presentation here
March 15 2012 shdi webinar 14.3.12
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For the full presentation and discussion click here SDHI Webinar ‘Surviving Gun Violence’

SDHI Workshop

Social Network Analysis workshop led by Professor Robert Raeside, Professor of Applied Statistics, Edinburgh Napier University

Tuesday 6th March 2012, 1.00pm-4.30pm

Room 2F15, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
Social Network Analysis Workshop

Seminar (Co-hosted with the Centre for Medical Education)

‘Professional norms: combining sociological and philosophical perspectives on professionalism in healthcare’, Professor Alan Cribb, King’s College London

Monday 13th February 2012, 3.00pm-5.00pm

Room 2F13, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee
Alan Cribb seminar flyer

Geography SDHI Seminar

‘Using links as basic data in social science research’, Dr Kaberi Gayen, Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Monday 28th November 2011, 2-4pm, Room 2G14 Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee

Pre-Viva PhD Seminar

“Exploring the pathways to poor health in the ‘hidden population’ with low literacy”, Phyllis Easton

Thursday 24th November 2011, 11.00am

Meeting Room 1, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Airlie Place, Dundee

Geography Seminar

‘Critical Geographies of Well-Being’, Dr Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford; Dr Sarah Atkinson, Durham University, Dr Thilo Kroll, University of Dundee, Dr Ed Hall, University of Dundee

Wednesday, 16 November 2011, Dalhousie 3G02, 1-4pm (tea/coffee at 2.30), University of Dundee

Seminar

‘Thinking about a good life for people with learning/intellectual disabilities’, Prof Jan Walmsley

Thursday, 10 November 2011, 3.00pm-5.00pm

Room 2S17, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee

Public Engagement

‘Communities, wellbeing and science’: SDHI Day of Public Engagement
29 October 2011, 10.00am-4.00pm
Dundee Central Library, Wellgate Shopping Centre

Knowledge exchange event

‘Increasing the Resilience of Vulnerable Adults to Natural Hazards and Disasters’
28 September 2011, Dundee

Past Conferences

Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research
9th-11th September 2011, St Andrews

‘Making Health Care Safer’ Learning from Social and Organisational Research
27-28 June 2011, St Andrews