Events
2009
First meeting of the EU-Tempus 'ACES' project
28 - 30 January 2009
Professor Mark Doel's team will be hosting the first meeting of the EU-Tempus 'ACES' project at the end of January 2009, with guests from Tbilisi State University Georgia, Moyhla Institute Kiev, Ljubljana University, Tallinn University and Vilnius Pedagogical University.
There will also be a reception event where the Pro Vice-Chancellor for the new portfolio of Regional and Public Health Development, Rhiannon Billingsley, will formally greet the guests and announce the start of the project.
This will be held in H016 (Heart of the Campus) at 5pm on Wednesday 28 January - interested parties are invited to meet visiting colleagues and find out more about the project. For catering purposes visitors are asked to contact Vicky Mathers on 0114 225 5916 or at V.Mathers@shu.ac.uk.
7th British Thoracic Oncology Group Annual Conference 28-30 January, Dublin
This annual, multi-disciplinary conference aims to share current research and clinical developments relating to lung cancer care and treatment.
Angela Tod attended this year to present a poster updating some work conducted in Doncaster. This was a social marketing project aiming to promote early identification of lung cancer. She was also invited to present at the workshop run by the National Lung Cancer Nurses Forum.
- Early Lung Cancer Identification in Doncaster (ELCID) Tod AM. Suckling R. (Poster - 1st Prize)
- Carrying out small scale clinical research in Lung Cancer Tod AM. (Invited presentation in the workshop run by National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses at the conference)
2008
Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Research Day
17 December 2008
Long Gallery, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
The Faculty of Health and Wellbeing will be holding its first annual research day at the Millennium Galleries in December.
This event will showcase the research currently taking place, with presentations from staff and students in the key areas of biomedical research, sport and exercise science, and health and social care research. A poster session and wine reception in the afternoon will highlight the ongoing research in our centres and across the faculty.
We hope this event will allow colleagues from across the university to gain a better understanding of the exciting and groundbreaking research work being carried out in Health and Wellbeing.
4th Radiotherapy in Practice (RIP) conference
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 October 2008
Sheffield Hallam University
This innovative and exciting conference is aimed at all health care professionals and students practising in the field of Radiotherapy and Oncology. There will be the traditional RIP blend of keynote addresses (including the internationally acclaimed author on reflective practice, Jenny Moon), proffered papers, interactive workshops, equipment manufacturers presentations, conference debate, poster presentations, exhibition and social event. Abstracts from proffered papers will, as usual, be published in the Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice.
The conference will explore key issues relating to technological advancements and innovation in radiotherapy, patient centred care and workforce imperatives, CPD as well as the education, professional development and research activities of practitioners.
For further information please visit the conference website.
1st Annual Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 'Sharing Good Practice' Festival Day
18 July 2008
Rivermead Training Centre, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
Kate Gerrish presented a keynote paper on knowledge translation at the first annual Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 'Sharing Good Practice' Festival Day. The aim of the event was to encourage staff to present work that is taking place across the Trust, in the hope of reducing duplication of effort.
Health, Wellbeing and Happiness Conference: from Local Action to Global Change
30 June - 1 July 2008
Social Futures Institute, University of Teeside
Angela Tod and Peter Allmark presented a paper at the Health, Wellbeing and Happiness Conference, asking 'Does health education make you miserable?'
The conference was organised by the University of Teeside's Social Futures Institute and aimed to bring together social scientists and humanities scholars to consider the rapidly growing academic field of health, wellbeing and happiness studies.
Evidence for service delivery conference
25 June 2008
Northampton University
Susan Nancarrow was an invited speaker at the 'Evidence for service delivery' conference held at Northampton University on 25 June. She spoke about her SDO funded workforce project, 'the costs and outcomes of older peoples' services'.
'Global Groupwork' workshop
30th annual International Symposium on Social Work with Groups
19-22 June 2008
Cologne, Germany
Mark Doel co-led a workshop, 'Global Groupwork', at the 30th annual International Symposium on Social Work with Groups in Germany.
This is the sixth time the workshop has been run, and the third that Mark has co-led. The co-leadership is composed of group-workers from four different countries and they are gathering data about the universal and the specific elements of groupwork.
They will present their findings at the 2008 Annual Program Meeting of the US Council for Social Work Education (CSWE), to be held in Philadelphia, United States, this October.
International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Triennial Congress
4 June 2008
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow
Hora Soltani made two oral presentations at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Triennial Congress, an international event where midwives from all over the world come together to network and share knowledge.
Her presentations were on the subjects 'Evaluation of the use of simulation in midwifery education' and 'Breast expression in diabetic women'.
CHSCR professor presents at 8th PEPE International Conference
23 - 25 January 2008
Professor Doel gave a keynote address at the 8th PEPE International Conference (Practical Experiences of Professional Education) held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre from 23-25 January 2008.
The address, entitled 'Beyond anecdote ... the quest to codify practice' presented a model to use practitioners' portfolios of continuing professional education to transform practice wisdom into a systematic knowledge base. The conference was also addressed by Etienne Wenger on the topic of Communities of Practice.
> Download the handout from this address (Word 2.85MB)
Unhealthy professional boundaries? Working together in health and social care
Tuesday 4 - Wednesday 5 December 2007
Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London
Health and social care researchers are recognising the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to bring together complementary perspectives from a wider range of scientific disciplines, there have been growing calls from service providers and policy-makers for health and social care professionals to work more closely together. The aim of what has become known as an interprofessional approach to health and social care delivery is to provide a service that has greater coherence and continuity for service users whose needs are often complex and require input from more than one practitioner.
However, there are a number of challenges facing health and social care researchers and professionals when working together, and there is much to be learnt about how these challenges might be overcome.
This conference would be of interest to
- health and social care practitioners
- managers and policy makers
- researchers, academics and students interested in interdisciplinary research
Speakers include CHSCR's Peter Allmark, who will be giving a workshop at this event.
> Download the conference programme (PDF 2.06MB)
> Visit the website
New roles, new tasks and new bodies - the Mental Capacity Act in practice
Monday 26 November
F437, Robert Winston Building, Collegiate Campus
Jill Manthorpe is a professor of social work at Kings College, London. She is also co-director of the Social Care Workforce Research Unit and has wide experience of work with older people, researching into areas such as adult protection, community care and mental health. She has published, edited and co-authored numerous texts on social work and mental health topics.
This seminar is relevant to all educators, researchers and practitioners - please contact Vicky Mathers if you would like to attend.
Valuing people and research: outcomes and lessons from the Learning Disability Research Initiative
Monday 26 - Tuesday 27 November 2007
Sponsored by the Department of Health and hosted by Sheffield Hallam University, the conference is designed to address two main questions
- What are the main lessons to be drawn from the LDRI, a programme of 13 studies commissioned to examine different aspects of the implementation of 'Valuing People'?
- What is the future for research linked to a refreshed 'Valuing People' and the service modernisation agenda-building on existing research capability and knowledge?
> Full details and booking form
Health and Social Care Seminars
The October '2nd Friday' Health and Social Care seminar will take place on Friday, 12 October from 12:30-1:30pm in Room HO16 (Heart of the Campus, Collegiate Crescent site). We have one presentation this time, from Wayne Robson
'The lived experience of patients who receive an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) diary: a phenomenological study.'
Patients in intensive care commonly experience amnesia regarding their stay and many will also have delusional memories. This may lead to an increased risk of developing post traumatic stress related symptoms. Lack of understanding about how ill they have been can also lead to frustration about the slow pace of their recovery. One way of helping patients undertsand the time they spent in ICU is the use of patient diaries.
An A5 size notebook in which nurses and the patients' family make entries, and photographs of the patient are also included. This study explores patients experiences of having an ICU diary from six tape-recorded interviews. The study also highlights the difficulties of being a novice researcher using a phenomenological method.
Wayne Robson started at Sheffield Hallam University in June 2007. This is his first lecturing job and he worked in the field of critical care for the past 16 years as a charge nurse, Matron and spent four years as a nurse consultant at Chesterfield Royal Hospital where he introduced patient diaries into practice. His main passion is improving the care of acutely ill patients in areas of the hospital outside of critical care. He is a novice researcher who hopes to undertake a doctorate in the near future.
> Download the presentation (PDF 1.26MB)
> Download the references from this presentation (Word: 28KB)
British Society of Gerontology Conference 2007
Realities of Ageing: Research Into Action
6-8 September 2007
Location: Sheffield Hallam University
Keynote speakers to include Professor Germaine Greer (UK), Professor John McKnight (USA), Professor Kevin Morgan (UK) and Professor Neil Small (UK).
For further details and online registration visit www.bsg2007.org.uk
Health and Social Care Seminars
All take place on a Friday between 12.30 and 2pm.
| DATE | ROOM | TITLE | PRESENTER |
| 14 September 2007 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Experiences of the Research Governance Approval Process in the NEECaP Trial - A National Multi-Centre Intervention Evaluation of the Emergency Care Practitioner
> download (PDF 108KB) Engaging people with aphasia in stroke research: ethical and methodological challenges. > download (PDF 1.88MB) > download references (PDF 20.94KB) |
Suzanne Mason, Reader at the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield Bev Bennett, Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sheffiel |
| 12 October 2007 | H016 Heart of the Campus | The lived experience of patients who receive an ICU diary: a phenomenological study.
> download (PPT 914KB) > download references (Word 28KB) |
Wayne Robson, Nurse Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University |
| 9 November 2007 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Ageing and balance control - How can biomechanics be used to improve our understanding of elderly falls? A mixed method study in postnatal wards | Dan Lawrence, doctoral student at Sheffield Hallam University. Dr Neelamani Hewageegana, Visiting Researcher from Sri Lanka |
| 14 December 2007 | F613 RWB | Topics to be confirmed | Alex McClimens and Frances Gordon |
| 11 January 2008 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Topics to be confirmed | Sarah Cook |
| 8 February 2008 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Topics to be confirmed | Speaker to be confirmed |
| 14 March 2008 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Topics to be confirmed | Speaker to be confirmed |
| 11 April 2008 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Topics to be confirmed | Speaker to be confirmed |
| 9 May 2008 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Topics to be confirmed | Speaker to be confirmed |
| 13 June 2008 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Exploring Psychological Adaptation to Facial Surgery: A diary approach | Penny Furness, lecturer and research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University |
| 11 July 2008 | H016 Heart of the Campus | Bridging the gap - the transition for young people with mental health problems from child to adult services | Pat Day and Jim Turner |
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