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New report
Punita Chowbey, working with colleagues Hilary Piercy, Lerleen Willis, John Soady and Sarah Salway, has had a report published entitled 'Care pathway to revascularisation: experiences of Pakistani women and health care practitioners in Sheffield'. It was commissioned by NHS Sheffield.
2010
New NIHR research project
Sarah Cook was a co-applicant in a successful bid for a five year National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) research programme. The programme, titled 'Rehabilitation Effectiveness and Activities for Life (REAL)' is worth £1.8 million and will be led by Helen Killaspy of University College London.
Visiting Professorship awarded
Susan Mawson has been conferred the title of Visiting Professor of Rehabilitation at the University of Sheffield, working predominantly at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) with Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) South Yorkshire theme leads, and with the health technology research group led by Professor Mark Hawley.
Findings from BME communities study presented
Punita Chowbey presented findings from a feasibility study into eating disorders within local BME communities.
The report was commissioned by the South Yorkshire Eating Disorders Association (SYEDA) and was presented at a dissemination event on the 27 February 2009, organised in partnership with SYEDA and NHS Sheffield. Team members from CHSCR included Dr Sarah Salway, Mubarak Ismail and Professor Kate Gerrish.
New international collaboration grant
Christine Ferris is part of a joint research proposal investigating globalisation and the development of radiographic education in Sri Lanka.
The proposal, with Dr Badra Hewavithana, Head of Radiography Education at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka and President of the Sri Lanka College of Radiologists, was recently accepted by the Association of Commonwealth Universities and has been awarded an international collaboration grant. The research has the support of the British Society for the History of Radiology and the Oral History Society.
The project aims to investigate the effects of globalisation on radiographic education. Since the 1990s, the qualifying radiographic programme has been at degree standard in the UK. An education initiative in Sri Lanka has followed this example and the cultural and social implications of this change will be examined using documentary sources and interviews.
The interviews will be constructed to capture the oral history of the professionals involved. Three languages are involved - Sinhala, Tamil and English - requiring co-researchers to be trained to collect interview data and help with its analysis and interpretation. Cross-lingual oral history research is in its infancy and it is anticipated that this study will add to the growing body of knowledge on this methodology, as well as providing insight into what helps and hinders the growth of allied health education in a developing country.
North Trent Cancer Research Network grant awarded
Marilyn Kirshbaum and others have been awarded a small grant from the North Trent Cancer Research Network for a pilot study to explore patient experiences of fatigue in palliative care based on the Edmonton Fatigue Framework.
The work will be undertaken at St Luke's Hospice at the Therapies and Rehabilitation Centre over the course of a year. The research team includes Trish Corcoran, Nurse Consultant in Symptom Management at St Luke's Hospice, Kath Steele, Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care (Sheffield Hallam University/St Luke's), and Professor Karin Olson, University of Alberta, Canada.
2009
Rotherham Smoke Free Homes project
Angela Tod is leading a project to generate social marketing insight and interventions in order to evaluate the Rotherham Smoke Free Homes service.
Commissioned by Rotherham PCT, the service aims to train 100 front-line staff and to recruit 2,000 homes to become free from tobacco smoke. The initial focus of the service, which will run over a two year period, will be on homes with young children.
CHSCR team appointed to evaluate NHS Sheffield program
Beginning in 2005 and driven by the apparent inequalities in health across the city, NHS Sheffield undertook an enhanced public health program designed to reduce these inequalities, promote access and uptake of health services, and tackle the wider determinants affecting health.
NHS Sheffield have recently commissioned a team of researchers from CHSCR to evaluate this program. A report is due in March 2009.
News from Centre staff
This year Professor Mark Doel has started work on two new projects. The first is a large EU project ('ACES') which houses six separate themes in the field of social work education and research. The Centre recently hosted the inaugural meeting of the project, in which representatives from the six European nations in the project gathered to map out the next three years. Secondly, a project to evaluate the impact of a school social work service in Staffordshire has started, with interviews involving some of the students who have experienced an intervention model (AERO) developed by a social work practitioner.
Dr Marilyn Kirshbaum gave an invited talk on 'Rehabilitation in Breast Cancer Care: Current Evidence for Improving Life After Breast Cancer' at the First World Congress on Cancer 2009, Institute for Holistic Medical Sciences, Kottayam, Kerala, India. 12-14 January 2009. Marilyn is also working collaboratively with Professor Karin Olson, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada on developing the Edmonton Fatigue Framework in relation to fatigue in the palliative care setting using an ethnoscience methodology.
Professor Gail Mountain is a member of the Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee for REMCARE, a multi centre pragmatic randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of joint reminiscence group for people with dementia and their carers. The first meeting of the group was held in Leeds on 21 January 2009.
Professor Kate Gerrish holds an honorary appointment as Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, where she has recently been supervising a PhD student, Maria Jirwe. Maria's research examined cultural competence in nursing. In Sweden PhD students have to publically defend their thesis through discussion with an expert opponent in the field in front of an audience of academics, family and friends. Maria successfully defend her thesis in December and so gained her PhD.
In January Kate presented a research seminar at the University of Swansea entitled 'Community engagement in research: some lessons from the field' based on the Somali TB project that she has worked on locally with Mubarak Ismail, research assistant here at CHSCR.
On 29 January 2009, Nasrin Nasr gave a presentation on her work with the SMART project at a conference in Glasgow. The conference, held at Glasgow Caledonian University, featured research from Free Living Activity Measurement, Neuroimaging, Musculoskeletal, and Gerontology, and was part of the CORE network (Community of Research Exchange). The presentation focused on the principles of self management, sources of self efficacy policy drivers that form the context for the SMART project methodology (health and social sciences research methods and user-centred design methods), and animation presentations envisioning the project as it is developing.
Globalisation and the development of radiographic education in Sri Lanka
Dr Christine Ferris has been part of a successful joint research proposal to investigate globalisation and the development of radiographic education in Sri Lanka.
The proposal has now been accepted by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and an international collaboration grant awarded to Dr Badra Hewavithana, Head of Radiography Education at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka and President of the Sri Lanka College of Radiologists, along with Dr Ferris, lead for Sri Lanka on Team International H&W and Research Co-ordinator for PRADO subject group.
The project aims to investigate the effects of globalisation on radiographic education, and has the support of the British Society for the History of Radiology and the Oral History Society. Since the 1990s, the qualifying radiographic programme has been at degree standard in the UK. An education initiative in Sri Lanka has followed this example and the cultural and social implications of this change will be examined using documentary sources and interviews. The interviews will be constructed to capture the oral history of the professionals involved. The grant will cover travel and accommodation with some translation and transcription costs in Sri Lanka. The project will be challenging in a number of areas. Three languages are involved, Sinhala, Tamil and English requiring co-researchers to be trained to collect interview data and help with its analysis and interpretation. Cross-lingual oral history research is in its infancy and it is anticipated that this study will add to the growing body of knowledge on this methodology as well as providing insight into what helps and hinders the growth of allied health education in a developing country.
Centre welcomes new Director
This week (February 2009) the Centre for Health and Social Care Research welcomed a new Director, Professor Malcolm Whitfield.
Malcolm joins us from the School of Health and Related Research (ScHAAR) at the University of Sheffield, where he has developed a reputation in health economics.
Successful 'Professional Boundaries' bid
A research team led by Professor Mark Doel has been successful with a bid to the General Social Care Council (GSCC) to study 'Professional Boundaries'.
The research will help the GSCC in its practical work to develop codes of practice in this field. Although the output will focus on social work and the UK, the research encompasses other professions and other English-speaking countries.
The team comprises a wide collaboration across CHSCR (Mark Doel, Peter Allmark, Angela Tod and Margaret Flynn), the social work subject group (Pete Nelson), the Faculty of Development and Society (Malcolm Cowburn, social work trained, PL in Criminology) and Paul Conway, Information Advisor (social work subject group).
New research project
Skills for Care has commissioned Sheffield Hallam University to examine the feasibility of placements with service users who manage their own budgets.
This action research project will involve social work students placed with people who manage their own budgets, for whom there will be special training in order to provide the placements. The experience will be researched from all participants' perspectives to evaluate the feasibility of this approach.
This is part of a broad initiative to develop innovative and non-traditional placements in health and social care and builds on previous successful research by the research centre in this field. The research will be led by Professor Mark Doel, with colleagues Jane McLenachan and Elaine Flynn in the social work subject group.
2008
Conference presentation in Philadelphia
Professor Mark Doel has reported the findings from a Global Groupwork research network at the Council for Social Work Education conference in Philadelphia, USA.
The research has been discovering the essential elements of groupwork practice that transcend cultural and national borders - and the differences, too.
Mark co-presented with colleagues from Fordham University New York, the University of the West Indies and University College, Cork. He also took part in a forum to review the international definition of social work.
'Relationship-based work in social work'
Professor Mark Doel's recent book, 'Experiencing Social Work: learning from service users', (co-authored with Lesley Best) has been greeted with considerable interest and enthusiasm.
As well as spawning a series of similar books in which service users' positive experiences of social work will be presented and explored (to be published by Sage), Mark has been invited to contribute a chapter for a book on relationship-based work in social work. This chapter will focus on service user perspectives on professional relationships and builds on the theme of learning from positive practice.
News from CHSCR staff
Dr Susan Nancarrow recently organised a conference in Sheffield (24/09/08) in partnership with the Community Therapists' Network, to disseminate the findings of the SDO study 'The impact of workforce flexibility on the costs and outcomes of older peoples' services'. The conference was a huge success and the feedback has been extremely positive. Susan is currently on maternity leave and will return mid-2009 - we all wish her and her family well with their second child.
Professor Kate Gerrish has been busy with colleagues Professor Cecily Bagley (Trinity College, Dublin) and Professor Kathy Murphy (National University of Ireland, Galway) securing funding of €350,000 from the National Council for Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery, Ireland. The project is to evaluate the clinical services provided by clinical nurse/midwife specialist and advanced nurse/midwife practitioners in Ireland. Kate's role is as a member of the international advisory panel.
Dr Margaret Flynn visited Birmingham University in September, to meet with the organisers of the MSc course in Learning Disability for which she has been appointed external examiner. On Friday 19 September Margaret gave a presentation at the Community Care conference in London on safeguarding vulnerable people.
Professor Gordon Grant, the former head of the Centre for Health and Social Care Research, was recently appointed Emeritus Professor (September 2008).
Grant award for Parkinson's Disease research
Professor Gail Mountain and Bhanu Ramaswamy have been successful in their application for an Innovation Grant from the Parkinson's Disease Society, an award of up to £10,000 designed to support short, small-scale research projects and pilot studies that address health and well-being issues of relevance to people with Parkinson's.
They have been awarded £9,400 for a year-long project which aims to work with people with Parkinson's and their carers, to determine their current coping mechanisms and to identify appropriate self-management strategies through a qualitative research design.
An edible book launch!
Professor Mark Doel's latest book - 'Experiencing Social Work: learning from service users', co-authored by Lesley Best - was launched at the Joint Social Work Research and Social Work Education Conferences in Cambridge.
The launch was co-sponsored by the publisher, Sage, and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), and celebrated with a cake with an edible icing depiction of the book's front page.
The book tells the stories of positive experiences of social work and reflects on lessons for good practice. It is hoped it will help people to get a better picture of what social work is and what social workers do. The authors think of the book as a series of public enquiries into what went spectacularly right, an antidote to the usual focus on what goes wrong.
Georgia conference in Tbilisi
For three years CHSCR has been the lead partner in a project to establish social work education in Georgia.
The project has been funded by the EU and led by Professor Mark Doel, with Jo Lucas as project manager and partners Tbilisi State University (led by Professor Iago Kachkachishvili) and Ljubljana University (led by Dr Vesna Leskosek).
It has successfully launched new programmes at Certificate, BSW and MSW levels in Georgia - the first social work training courses in a country which so far has less than ten qualified practitioners!
In July 2008, a conference was held in Tbilisi to celebrate the project's work and to disseminate its findings. The Conference was opened by the EU Ambassador to Georgia and the TSU Rector (VC). We have been in regular contact with our colleagues and friends in Georgia during the recent conflict with Russia and we are all hoping for a peaceful outcome.
Update
The three-year EU project to establish social work education in Georgia ended in July, but Professor Mark Doel was invited back to Tbilisi by UNICEF in September to help government Ministries in Georgia to establish the equivalent of the General Social Care Council - a regulatory body for the new social work profession there.
Following the recent war with Russia, this was an opportunity to show continuing support - Georgian colleagues expressed the view that it was part of the process of 'normalisation' for this kind of work to continue. The project went well and a framework for a regulatory council has been agreed.
Listen to a podcast from the 8th International Practical Experiences of Professional Education (PEPE) Conference
Professor Mark Doel was a keynote speaker at the 8th International Practical Experiences of Professional Education (PEPE) Conference, held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre between 23 - 25 January, 2008.
The conference was sponsored by the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) and took as its theme, 'Practical learning: achieving excellence in the human services'.
Mark's theme was 'Beyond anecdote: the quest to codify practice wisdom', in which he presented findings from his action research into the development of systematic accounts of professional practice.
CHSCR present at South Africa conference
Two of the Centre's team recently presented papers at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID)'s four yearly conference, held in Cape Town in August 2008.
Margaret Flynn spoke on resilience in family caring, and Alex McClimens presented a paper on blogging and displayed two posters associated with the blogging project (please visit Sociological Research Online Vol 13, Issue4 to see the paper).
Download the presentations
- Blogging with an intellectual disability - identity management on and off line (PDF 678KB)
- Inclusive research - is it time to shift the focus from processes to outcomes? (PDF 471KB)
- Resilience in families: rethinking assessment, support and diversity (PDF 275KB)
One of the plenary sessions, delivered by Professor Eric Emerson of Lancaster University, described the links between environment, poverty and disability. The case was made in convincing detail - however, a tour of the nearby townships provided even more graphic evidence of the effects of deprivation.
Hundreds of thousands of native Capetonians live in squalid conditions. While South Africa may host the World Cup in 2010, the presence of these shanty towns is a reminder that the distance between the first and third worlds is sometimes no more than a long kick upfield.
CHSCR gives retired former Director a good send-off
Former CHSCR Director Professor Gordon Grant announced his retirement in June 2008 and on 9 July was given a send-off by a crowd of friends and colleagues at Collegiate Crescent campus.
Rhiannon Billingsley, Pro Vice Chancellor for Regional and Public Health Development, plus colleagues from the University of Sheffield including Professor Mike Nolan of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHAAR) and Professor Anne Peat, Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, all paid tribute to the former Centre director.
As a parting gift, keen hiker Gordon received a compass and vouchers worth £100 to be spent on camera equipment. He will retain an honorary contract with the university and will continue to supervise PhD students. He has two book projects to occupy his time and when not engaged in academic pursuits will be spending some time on the tennis courts and visiting Eastlands stadium.
Poster congratulations
Congratulations to Dr Peter Allmark, who recently won the 'Best Poster' prize for his poster - 'The ethics of the diagnosis of dying' - at the eighth annual UK Clinical Ethics Network Conference conference, held in Sheffield on May 21, 2008.
Professor Gail Mountain visits University of Alberta
Professor Gail Mountain visited the University of Alberta (nursing and occupational therapy) in May, financed through a fellowship awarded by the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.
While in Alberta she gave a keynote lecture at the Glenrose Rehabilitation hospital, which was also beamed to remote sites. She also gave two further lectures within the university - one on technologies for rehabilitation and self management and a second on the Lifestyle Matters programme.
Gail also recently attended the European Congress of Occupational Therapy where she gave a lecture on the European dimension of Lifestyle Matters and ran a workshop on rehabilitation and self management for people with dementia.
She was also surprised to find herself cited in Times Higher (15 May 2008) as the author of one of the top best sellers ('Occupational Therapy with Older People') for Blackwell publishers in London!
To find out more about Gail and her publications please visit her staff profile.
CHSCR Reader appointed Professor
Dr Susan Mawson has recently been appointed Professor of Rehabilitation. Everyone at the Centre sends their congratulations and best wishes on this well deserved achievement - it is a suitable recognition of Susan's contributions to scholarship and research nationally and internationally.
Professor Gail Mountain invited to House of Commons
Professor Gail Mountain has received an invitation to showcase the SMART project to an audience of MPs, Ministers, representatives from government, colleagues from academic institutions and NHS organisations including assistive technology users and the voluntary sector. This follows a review of all research and development projects with published results for over the past two years. Only five other projects have been shortlisted.
The aim of this is to highlight the potential of assistive technology research and development activity in the UK in order to launch the ATcare Design and Development Centre. This centre will provide support for commercialisation of a wide range of assistive technology product areas, working with researchers and innovators across the UK with an aim to bring together and increase the resource base for assistive technologies to enable more AT products to get to the market and to improve the quality of products available for the disabled and older people.
The event is being organised by NHS Innovations London (Pall Mall) and will be held in the House of Commons. Professor Mountain is currently recruiting for a volunteer to accompany her on this prestigious occasion.
What helps to support practice learning in social work?
Good practice begins with good training and education. Expectations and public scrutiny of professional practice is high, so it is important to study the education of professionals. Social work students spend half of their education in placements, where they learn and practise how to become professional social workers (practice learning). In recent years there have been considerable changes to social work education designed to meet these increasing expectations; for example, the number of days in placements has increased from 120 to 200 and there are more placements in non-traditional settings, such as prisons, schools and with community groups.
Skills for Care has commissioned Professor Mark Doel in CHSCR to lead a team to research practice learning. The team, which includes Pete Nelson, Elaine Flynn and Caroline Mulrooney from the social work team, will be returning to fourteen 'practice sites', whose new approaches to practice learning were first studied three years ago, to find out what is happening now. Have they been able to sustain and develop their novel approaches to practice learning and, if so, how? 30 new innovative practice sites will also be studied to help understand how practice learning can be successfully supported.
Finally, 30 local authorities will be surveyed to gain a better understanding of how the government's performance indicator (PI) for social work practice learning has influenced the quality and quantity of placements. The need for this research is pressing because the Performance Indicator for social work placements comes to an end this year, at a time when demand for social work placements continues to grow.
The £30,000 research project begins in January 2008 and findings will be reported in May 2008.
Learning on the job for a new generation of social workers
Finding the right training for today's new generation of social workers is more important than ever as the demand grows for social workers with a wider variety of skills and experience. Recent restructures to social work education means that student social workers spend half of their education - up to 200 days - in work placements where they learn and practice how to become professional social workers. Whilst this helps students gain valuable and relevant experience, it is equally important that the quality of this training is of the highest standard especially as universities are now looking increasingly towards non traditional settings, such as prisons and refugee centres.
A new initiative is now underway to study the placements of student social workers to make sure that they are gaining the right experience. Skills for Care and Childrens Workforce Development Council, which aim to improve adult and childrens social care services across England, has commissioned researchers from CHSCR to assess whether the practice sites are providing the right kind of support for student's practice learning.
Professor Mark Doel said, 'Good practice begins with good training and education, so it's crucial at this stage that we are confident students are getting the right kind of experience and support. We'll be looking at sites that were first studied three years ago to see whether they have been able to sustain and develop innovative approaches to practice learning, as well as investigating new approaches to learning. We are also eager to find new placements in different kinds of settings such as schools and children's centres, prisons, hospitals, and women's refuges.'
Part of the research includes the study of thirty practice sites and projects within the following categories: education, criminal justice, health, service user and carer-led sites, black and minority sites, and other non-traditional sites such as the voluntary and independent sectors.
Professor Doel leads an experienced team from Sheffield Hallam's social work unit which includes Pete Nelson, Elaine Flynn and Caroline Mulrooney.
Visiting Professor appointment
Sheffield Hallam alumnus and former CHSCR Principal Research Fellow Dr Gina Higginbottom, who left the University earlier this year to join the University of Alberta, Canada, has been appointed as a Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing by our new Vice Chancellor, Professor Philip Jones.
Gina has also recently been named the new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Ethnicity and Health during her first semester in her new post. The CRC is a Canadian government program aimed at supporting outstanding researchers to help them advance their careers.
> Find out more on the University of Alberta website
New publications
A major new publication - Nolan, M., Hanson, E., Grant, G. and Keady, J., (eds.) (2007) User Participation Research in Health and Social Care. Maidenhead: Open University Press and McGraw Hill Education - will be in the shops very soon.
This collection, co-edited by Professor Gordon Grant, among others, also features contributions from Ray Wainwright, a current PhD student registered with Hallam University and supervised by Gordon Grant; Graham Shields, a member of a local user research network; Julie Repper, Reader in Mental Health University of Nottingham and a recent ex- member of staff here at Hallam; and Alex McClimens, fellow of the Centre for Health and Social Care Research.
> Read Professor Gordon Grant's staff profile
> Read Dr Alex McClimens' staff profile
Nick Pollard, research lead for Occupational Therapy within the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing has been busy writing, editing and publishing. His most recent outputs are listed below. Please visit his staff page for more details
Pollard N, Sakellariou D, Kronenberg F, (2008) (eds) Political Practice in Occupational Therapy Edinburgh, Elsevier Science (due for publication in May)
Pollard N, Kronenberg F, (2008) Working with people on the margins, in J Creek, L Lougher, (eds), Occupational Therapy in Mental Health (4th edition), Oxford, Elsevier Science, 557-577
Pollard N, Sakellariou D (2007) Operationalizing community participation in community-based rehabilitation: Exploring the factors Disability and Rehabilitation 1-9 iFirst On line.
Research Assessment Exercise
The Nursing and Midwifery submission for the current Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is now lodged with the University where it will be scrutinised during November prior to being delivered to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Professor Grant has led this submission.
Likewise Professor Mountain and Dr Sue Mawson have been organising the Health and Allied Professions submission which will be a joint submission with Biomedical Sciences. The academic leads wish to thank all staff for their time, patience and contributions. Special mention, however, goes to the staff in the administration office whose efforts have kept the whole process on track.
The final outcome will not be known until the end of 2008.
CHSCR awarded major new project
Virtual therapists will help patients with chronic conditions take control of their home rehabilitation in a major new research project awarded £2.3 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
The four year SMART2 project, led by CHSCR, will look at how technologies can be used to help individuals and their families to manage long tem conditions. The researchers will fit each of the 60 subjects' homes with a touch screen computer and a range of movement sensors and measurement equipment, allowing patients to have remote contact with their therapists as well as home visits.
Whereas traditional research into this type of technology allows remote monitoring by the therapist or nurse, this new study will look at ways in which the computer itself can work directly with the patient, changing and altering the programme in accordance with the information it receives about the person's movements both inside and beyond the home and informing their therapist when it does so.
Sheffield Hallam will lead a consortium of universities comprising the University of Ulster, University of Bath and The University of Sheffield, working alongside industry partners BT and Philips who will share expertise in Phoneecare research, body worn sensors and telemonitoring technologies.
Lead Consortium Director Gail Mountain explains, 'The number of people in the UK with chronic conditions such as enduring pain, heart failure or stroke will continue to increase as our population ages. The government is worried about the resource implications of providing quality rehabilitation to increasing numbers of people.
'Many countries have already adopted self-management practices for long term care that have been shown to have other benefits in terms of employment, social inclusion and wellbeing. It's an ideal time for this team to see how the UK can lead on introducing cutting edge technologies to the rehabilitation of the chronically ill'.
CHSCR welcomes new staff and new accommodation
The Centre for Health and Social Care Research has welcomed colleagues from the University of Sheffield into their ranks with a lavish launch event at the Centre's new accommodation at 32 Collegiate Crescent.
The event, organised by Dr Sue Mawson, took place on July 12 at Collegiate Campus and was attended by, among others, the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Mike Smith and the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Regional and Public Health Development, Rhiannon Billingsley.
CHSCR Director Gail Mountain spoke of her delight at the turnout and the efforts of Centre staff in celebrating the ongoing work of the centre.
Guests were entertained by musicians Alexandra Holland (flute; Durham University) and Esther Mulholland (cello; Cambridge University) who played selections from Phoneemann and Bach.
2007
Sheffield Hallam successful partner in £558,000 EPSRC bid
Sue Mawson (Reader in Rehabilitation) and a team of experts from across the UK were recently successful in obtaining a funding award for their research proposal developed at a five day EPSRC 'sandpit' exercise held at Bailbrooke House in Bath.
The Ideas Factory 'Taking Care to the Patient - New Thinking in Mobile and Distributed Delivery of Health Care' consisted of 27 individually invited scientists and academics bidding for a total prize of £1.4 million pounds.
The successful team working alongside Dr Sue Mawson included Dr Jane Burridge (Southampton University), Dr Penny Smith (Oxford University), Professor Ian Ricketts (Dundee University), Professor Tom Rodden (Nottingham University) and Dr Geraldine Fitzpatrick (Sussex University).
The winning bid was entitled 'Motivating Mobility: Interactive Systems to promote Physical Activity and Leisure for People with Limited Mobility' and its vision is to reconnect people with their world using mobile technology and interactive personalised games presented in familiar ways which encourage competition between family members and friends and thereby improve physical and emotional wellbeing.
Sheffield Hallam visiting professor awarded major grant for inter professional research
Dr Rosalie Boyce from the University of Queensland, and visiting professor at the Centre for Health and Social Care Research has been awarded a large grant to evaluate and implement inter-professional education and practice strategies.
The team of Australian researchers will work with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Health Service in Canberra in a whole of territory approach which will radically change the way health services operate. The grant, titled, 'An action research project to strengthen inter-professional learning and practice across the ACT health system' is led by Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite at the University of NSW.
Approximately $5 million (£2 million) in resources will be devoted to the four-year project, including a $1 million dollar grant from the Australian Research Council. There will be significant opportunities for knowledge exchange between researchers and educators in Sheffield and their Australian colleagues as the research progresses.
Research degrees: ESRC recognition for MA Social Research Methods for Social Work
The part-time MA Social Research Methods for Social Work, provided through the Centre for Health and Social Care Research has gained ESRC recognition as a basis for 1+3; +3 and CASE studentships.
The next admission point to the MA is September 2006. There will be a further intake in January 2007. Full details can be found here. For further information please contact Dr Anne Hollows.
Education: £350 000 to establish social work education in the Republic of Georgia
A new project to establish social work education in the former soviet republic of Georgia is set to modernise the country's social services and create strong relations between British academics and their east European counterparts.
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