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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: [email protected]
+ 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
• Claire Scammell, Centre Administrator,
King College, London. Tel. 020 7848 [email protected]
MH SIG Contact Details:
Clare Baguley, MH Consultant,
University of Manchester
Claire Scammell, Centre Administrator,
King College, London. Tel. 020 7848 [email protected]