News from June and July from the School of Social Policy.
Three School members have been nominated for HEFi Teaching and Learning Awards.Dr Sarah-Jane Fenton was nominated in the categories of Outstanding Student Support and Inclusive Educator. Deputy Learning and Teaching Manager Katherine Burley was nominated in the Outstanding Student Support category. The NHS Leadership Academy Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Programme team, led by Janine Turner, were also nominated for an award. Congratulations to all.
The BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre and Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit – both funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) – have published initial findings from an early evaluation of the Government’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health Implementation Programme. Initial findings showed that the new mental health support teams in schools and colleges are widely welcomed, but gaps in children’s mental health provision remain.
Dr Will Leggett has published an open access article in the journal Critical Policy Studies: ‘Can Mindfulness Really Change the World? The Political Character of Meditative Practices’. The article looks beyond neoliberal forms of ‘McMindfulness’, identifying how meditation might cultivate more critical and democratic forms of consciousness and action. It was viewed 500 times in its first month, and highlighted as ‘required reading’ by the progressive thinktank and campaign network Compass.
HSMC's Professor Russell Mannion, with colleagues at the Universities of Surrey, Cardiff and Macquarie, is being funded by NIHR HSDR to undertake research on unprofessional behaviour in health care settings.
Congratulationsto Dr Val Sylvester, who has successfully completed her PhD. Val’s research explored the experiences of Caribbean migrant women migrating to the UK and US in the 1950s and 1960s and the title of her thesis was “Intergenerational Experiences of Migration and Settlement: African Caribbean Women UK and US Perspectives”.