SDHI is delighted to be hosting this Webinar entitled “Disability and human rights: Global perspectives” which will be led by Edurne García Iriarte, Assistant Professor and Director of the MSc in Disability Studies at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). This FREE Webinar will be held on Wednesday 13th April at 2pm (GMT)
For further information please see webinar flyer
Ilana Crome Professor in addiction psychiatry to speak at the SDHI conference “Emerging priorities in Mental Health and Addiction” in St Andrews, June 2016.
Dr Gozde Ozakinci will be presenting a keynote at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology-Scotland on 22nd February 2016, in Glasgow. Her talk will be on: Citizen-led, community physical participation: The example of ‘parkrun UK’
Seventy six senior academics (including Professor Huw Davies) from 11 countries invite The BMJ’s editors to reconsider their policy of rejecting qualitative research on the grounds of low priority. They challenge the journal to develop a proactive, scholarly, and pluralist approach to research that aligns with its stated mission.
Read the full article here
Professors Thilo Kroll and Huw Davies, Co-Directors of SDHI along with colleagues
Dr Margaret Hannah, Director of Public Health, NHS Fife
Professor Vikki Entwistle, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen
Professor Brendan McCormack, School of Nursing, Queen Margaret University
Professor Belinda Dewar, University of the West of Scotland
Graham Leicester, Director, International Futures Forum
Nicola Gray, Programme Manager, Scottish Improvement Science Collaborating Centre
have been awarded funding from the Scottish Universities Insight Institute (SUII) for a project entitled Understanding, forming and fostering a culture of transformative innovation in health and social care
This proposal focuses on the kinds of transformative innovation that are needed within services and communities to address pressing concerns about the appropriateness and sustainability of health and social care provision across whole populations. It brings together leading Scottish and international thinkers and practitioners from three key areas of research and practice development, and provides a structured but flexible programme within which they can generate synergistic insights into the conditions that can enable the kinds of cultures of transformative innovation that could foster the provision of health and social support consistent with the best aspirations of humanity.
The three areas of practice and development that underpin the programme are: (1) Fifth wave thinking (ideas oriented to deal with the contemporary challenges of public health for which previous major developments in public health are proving insufficient); (2) Person-centred care (a cluster of ideas about both what is humane and morally appropriate in health and social care provision and how people can contribute to their own health and wellbeing); and (3) Transformation (studies of transformative rather than less radical or far-reaching forms of innovation).
Building out from existing collaborations within the three areas, programme partners and participants have been drawn from universities and from state and third sector policy leaders and health and social care providers. Supported by a strong commitment particularly from the International Futures Forum, a series of webinars and workshops will enable a sharing of current understandings and perspectives and facilitate fresh, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral conversations oriented both to understand and promote positive transformation both during and beyond the span of the programme.
The objectives of the proposed work are:
In a joint event with Health and Care Research Wales, RURU will explore the ways that meaningful dialogue can be facilitated. The day will focus on supporting dialogue around various types of knowledge that might inform frontline services in health care, social care, education and associated services and partners. The intention is that outputs should include an academic journal article.
This event will take place on Monday 21 March, 2016 in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews
Further details are available here
We are delighted to announce a joint ENTER Mental Health, SDHI, and Centre for Addiction Research & Education Scotland CARES Conference to be held in St Andrews on Friday 3rd June 2016 entitled “Emerging priorities in mental health and addiction: the Virtual World, Ageing and Migration”
This is a one day conference to explore key issues facing us as researchers, practitioners and policy makers
Further information and registration details can be found at https://enterepmhe2016.wordpress.com/
Enquiries should be directed to epmhe2016@st-andrews.ac.uk
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