welcome to the health sciences & practice subject centre mental health special interest group...

Welcome to the Health Sciences & Practice Subject Centre Mental Health Special Interest Group

Wed 21st March 2007

Kings College, London

Outline for the Day• Introductions• Background & context of the MH SIG• Invited speaker:

Ian McGonagle, University of Lincoln

The 10 ESC – Opportunities & Challenges for Education

• Planning for future MH SIGs – Workshop/ Group Work

Higher Education Academy

HEALTH Network(Higher Education Academy Learning and Teaching in Health)

Federation of 2 Subject Centres

Health Sciences and Practice http://www.health.heacademy.ac.uk

Email: info-hsap@kcl.ac.uk

+ Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV)

The Higher Education Academyformed in 2004 to take on the functions of 3 previous bodies:

The Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) with 24 Subject Centres promoting the development of good

practices in Learning and Teaching

The Institute of Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE),

The body for professional accreditation and development

The National Coordination team (NCT) For teaching quality enhancement

Context: The Health Sciences & Practice Subject Centre

• Health Sciences & Practice Subject Centre

• 33 Lead Subjects + 12 Collaboration Subjects

• HEA MH Networks – Mapping exercise

• ‘Common Ground’ Workshop, 2005

Health Sciences & Practice Subject Centre

aims to

promote the development of

good practices in health care

through enhancing the quality of

learning, teaching and assessment,

both in higher education institutions

and in practice based education

Speech &LanguageTherapy

MentalHealth

ComplementaryMedicine

HealthPromotion

& Education

Gerontology

Audiology

Nutrition&

Dietetics

Chiropody&

Podiatry

Nursing,Midwifery& HealthVisiting

Radiography

Pharmacy

OccupationalTherapy

PublicHealth

EnvironmentalHealth

HealthcareEthics

RehabilitationSciences

Optometry&

Orthoptics

Physiotherapy

OtherRelatedsubjects

Priorities for Health Sciences and Practice

• Interprofessional education• e learning • Assessment • Work related learning• Problem based learning• Educational Research• Employability• Mental Health• Reflective Practice • Public Health and Health Promotion• Ethics & legal aspects of health care

Centre DirectorProf Catherine Geissler

Academic DirectorDr Margaret Sills

Administrator& Marketing Manager Stevie Robinson

Senior Learning and Teaching AdviserHelen Bulpitt

Learning and Teaching AdviserDr Irja Haapala

CETL Liaison & IPE ManagerDr Marion Helme

IPE Project OfficerNikos Skisas

Information & Communication Technology ManagerKwansuree Jiamton Technical Officers

Chakkapas VisavakulPanu Kwansuwan

Key Contacts

Subject Advisers

Advisory Board

Learning and TeachingConsultants

Clare Baguley: MH Consultant

• Newsletter (termly)• Publications – Occasional papers • Ebulletin (monthly)• Student essay competition

• Website• JISCmail & discussion fora

• Special Interest Groups• Workshops and meetings e.g. Maths, Festival of learning

• National initiative support e.g. Employability• Collaboration with other Centres: Triple/ EIPEN (IPE), mhhe,• Research and development e.g. Mini-project grants

Activities 2005-2006

• to develop scholarship and debate about how best to improve learning and teaching practice, through commissioning reviews of the literature, policy, and studies of the experience of teachers and learners in a variety of learning environments.

• Grants of around £5000 are available annually. Details on our website.

Mini-Project Grants

Website• News• Events• Resources• Funding opportunities• Download Occasional papers etc• Contact Advisers • Special Interest Group (SIG) discussions• Links

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2005-2006 Thematic networks / communities of practice

• Critical reflection / Reflective Practice• Employability (forthcoming)• Ethics teaching• Foundation degrees in AHPs• Interprofessional Education• Mental Health in Higher Education• Practice Learning and Support• Problem Based Learning• Elearning (Launch January 2007)

Aims of the MH SIG• Develop interdisciplinary networks and facilitate the

sharing of ideas, experiences and good practice for the integration of mental health across educational programmes

• Provide a forum for the dissemination of information and resources relevant to the development of high quality evidence based mental health teaching and learning

• Support enquiry and innovation that aims to promote mental health learning and teaching across the range of multi disciplinary settings.

Considerations for this Afternoon’s Workshop

• What interested you in today's meeting?• What are you hoping for?• What do you need?• What ideas for future events might you have?• What might you have to offer?

Hold onto your ideas for this p.m.

Looking to the Future: Development of the MH SIG and a mental health network within health sciences & practice

A Joint Endeavour!

• Facilitate

• Harness resources

• Support

• Encourage contribution

Planning the MH SIGWhy?

Needs? Information?Networking?Support?Other?

Where?London / multi siteEngland, Scotland,

WalesWhen?

Frequency, duration?

What?Underpinning

philosophy of the MH SIG?

Areas of interest?Expertise?What resources do

we have available to us ? – Individuals / HEIs / IT

Aspirations – Outputs; European / USA links?

In Groups• Consider the previous questions what ideas /

opinions do you have?• What level of involvement would you like to

have? Eg: organising / hosting / presenting / other

• What areas / topics should we target• How might we widen the network with ‘hard to

reach’ groups?

Mental Health in Higher Education (mhhe)• mhhe - enhancing learning and teaching

about mental health in higher education• http://www.mhhe.heacademy.ac.uk/ • Lynn Tang, Project Development Officer,

Mental Health in Higher Education ResourcesNews BulletinsCase studiesService user and carer involvement

European Inter-professional Education Network (EIPEN) http://www.eipen.org/

• 6 participating counties Greece, Finland, Sweden, Hungary, Poland & UK

Two aims:• Develop transnational network of universities

and employers of• Promote good practice in interprofessional

teaching and learning in health & social care

Next Meeting:

Wed 7th November 2007

• Location?

• Theme / Topic?

• Structure?

• Who’ll do what?

MH SIG Contact Details:

• Clare Baguley, MH Consultant,

University of Manchester

clare.baguley@manchester.ac.uk

• Claire Scammell, Centre Administrator,

King College, London. Tel. 020 7848 3203data-hsap@kcl.ac.uk

MH SIG Contact Details:

Clare Baguley, MH Consultant,

University of Manchester

clare.baguley@manchester.ac.uk

Claire Scammell, Centre Administrator,

King College, London. Tel. 020 7848 3203data-hsap@kcl.ac.uk