Living and learning, learning and teaching: Mental health in higher education
A Mental Health in Higher Education conference
30-31 March 2010, George Fox Building, Lancaster University
(Only 2½ hours by train from London; ideally timed for an Easter break in the lake district!)
Call for submissions, Flyer, Outline Programme, Full session plan
Conference Information and Online booking form
Bursaries are available for user and carer educators. Further details.
- What do learners learn from what we teach? How else do they learn about mental wellbeing and ill health? Through lived experience?
- Does the notion of a ''threshold concept' have relevance in mental health? What are the areas and concepts that we neglect to teach?
- How, as educators in a higher education context, do we prepare learners for practice in the context of a changing workforce?
- What relevance does learning and teaching about mental health have for disciplines outside health and social care (eg education, the arts, performing arts and humanities)?
Mental Health in Higher Education (mhhe) aims to enhance learning and teaching about mental health. This interdisciplinary event sets out to:
1. shed light on the above questions, and pose some others (see call for submission of abstracts)
2. present some new perspectives on learning and teaching in general and mental health/psychiatry education in particular.
3. fly some kites for the future, exploring how mhhe's learning and legacy can be built upon.
The event will be of interest to, and gain from the contribution of, lecturers and tutors, practitioners, service user and carer educators, practice mentors, students and others with an interest in learning and teaching about mental health - across the disciplines in higher education.
Keynote speakers (provisional titles):
- Glynis Cousin (Director of Institute for Learning Enhancement and of Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Wolverhampton and National Teaching Fellow):
An introduction to 'Threshold Concepts'
- Ann Davis (Director, Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health and Professor of Social Work, University of Birmingham):
Learning and teaching about mental health in higher education - looking to the future.
- Gail Hornstein (Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College. Massachusetts (USA) and author of Agnes' Jacket: A psychologist's search for the meanings of madness
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Do contact us with any queries or for further details, or call Jill Anderson on 01524 592836