Ian Light Award
| The late Ian Light, service user consultant and lecturer in health and social care at City University London, was a founder member of the Developers of User and Carer Involvement in Education (DUCIE) network. This award, in Ian's name, aimed to support and nurture user and carer involvement development workers employed in UK higher education, enhancing their effectiveness and capacity to effect change. |
The award was open to anyone involved in supporting the development of infrastructure for user and carer involvement in higher education institutions. Priority was given to applications from workers for whom this is the sole focus or main purpose of their role.
The award aimed to support collaborative projects developed in partnership between two development workers and was for work in pairs.
Five of the pairs who received awards wrote up their projects for the benefit of others - see below.
2010 Award winners
1) Sandra Duggan and Pat Walton
Project title: Creating a service user and carer centre on the virtual learning environments (VLEs) at the Universities of Teesside and York
The two applicants aim to work collaboratively to create service user and carer pearticipation centres within the Virtual Learning Environments at their respective universities. This will increase students' exposure to service user and carer perspectives, taking advantage of opportunities provided by online student learning technology.
Download the final report on DEVELOPING A USER AND CARER CENTRE ON THE VLE.
2) Joan Cook and Isabel Turner
Project title: Independent Teaching and Training Policy
Making Waves is an organisation made up of and led by people who have experienced mental disstress. Making Waves tutors have developed and regularly deliver teaching on service user perspectives to nursing students at the University of Nottingham. This project aims to develop the Teaching and Training Policy of Making Waves, through gathering and assimilating information from other organisations. This work will then be disseminated.
Download the PINE TEACHING POLICY
3) Valerie Gant and Judith Davies
Project title: Crossing Boundaries - the role of development workers in promoting the expert knowledge of service users and carers in social work education.
This project aims to link together two development workers involved in undergraduate social work education, and the groups of service users and carers that they support - with a view to learning from group members themselves how meaningful involvement in the social work degree can best be facilitated.
Download Crossing Boundaries report.
2009 Award winners
1) Carol Massey (Havering College) and John Macdonough (LSBU)
Project title: London User Involvement Network
This project will scope the potential for a pan London user and carer development worker network and database.
2) Roseann Connolly (Royal Holloway) and Christine Skilton (Kingston University)
Project title: From Principles to Practice
This project will look at how principles - which originated from Shaping Our Lives and have been widely adapted by the GSCC, SCIE, Skills for Care and a range of other organisations - are translated into practice in involving service users and carers in education at Royal Holloway and Kingson Universities..
3) Barrie Holt (University of Huddersfield) and Chris Essen (University of Leeds)
Project title: Research network and workshop for service users and carers in developing research skills and capabilities within West Yorkshire Universities
This project will guild on a successful collaborative network related to service user and carer engagement in higher education. It will result in the organisation of a West Yorkshire Service users' and Carers' research network workshop.
2008 Award winners
1) Chris Essen (University of Leeds) and Lisa Malihi-Shoja (University of Central Lancashire)
Project title: A shared exploration of ‘community engagement' as a comparative approach to ‘service user and carer involvement' in developing relevant health and social care professional education.
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2) Debbie Kouzarides (University of York) and Gina Hardesty (Lincoln University)
Project title: Service User and Carer Led Consultation Surgery for Students
3) Liz Lefroy (Glyndŵr University) and Pam Hutton (Havering College of Further and Higher Education)
Project title: Getting to grips with participation - initial training for service users and carers who want to get involved
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