Within the School of Health and Education we believe that gaining an understanding into other professional roles and skills in a shared learning context can benefit inter-professional team-working in practice.
We have students studying health, nursing, social work, midwifery, teacher training, allied health care, and integrative medicine courses and our weekly Interprofessional Learning Symposia programme can provide a rich and deeper understanding of what different professionals have to offer within their respective sectors.
This dynamic series is now in its fourth year and it offers students and staff from across the disciplines studying within our school, as well as our external partners from practice (clinicians, social care staff, educators) an inter-professional learning opportunity.
Each session runs for an hour and a half at the end of the formal teaching day, starting at 4.00pm and participants come together to discuss, debate and update personal learning led by a key subject expert, on a range of relevant, often challenging themes.
The event learning materials and slides from each session are posted within the dedicated IPL section within MyLearning/my courses.
Sessions are advertised on Eventbrite and advanced booking is one month from the date of the event. Nursing and Midwifery students attending sessions will be able to log their participation as part of the mandatory IPL learning – please see your Programme Lead for details.
The programme of afternoon sessions presents a range of key topics representative of the health, social and educational subjects being taught, with invited experts both from within and outside of the university.
The full programme is outlined below with 100 places available for each session. Please also note that there may be changes to this timetable.
If you have any questions, please email Alfonso Pezzella.
| Date | Topic | Academic lead | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 2 October 2019 | Working inter-professionally | Mary Clark | C211 |
| Tuesday 8 October 2019 | Mental Health Assessment | Ruairi Mulhern Lawrence Dadzie | HG19 |
| Wednesday 16 October 2019 | Culturally competent and compassionate care | Irena Papadopoulous Alfonso Pezzella | C211 |
| Tuesday 22 October 2019 | Communication and disability | HG19 | |
| Thursday 24 October 2019 | Suicide prevention | Adrian Jugdoyal | CG76 |
| Wednesday 30 October 2019 | Drug and Alcohol I: Awareness | Carmel Clancy | C211 |
| Tuesday 5 November 2019 | Drug and Alcohol II: Assessment | Carmel Clancy | HG19 |
| Wednesday 13 November 2019 | An evidence-based introduction to adult ADHD | Poppy Ellis Logan | C211 |
| Tuesday 19 November 2019 | Understanding the Past, Present and Future: An Introduction to the Political Economy of UK Healthcare | Tim Evans | HG19 |
| Wednesday 27 November 2019 | Child protection and safeguarding | Lucille Allain Sioban O'Farrell-Pearce | C211 |
| Tuesday 3 December 2019 | Culturally competent and compassionate leadership | Irena Papadopoulos | HG19 |
| Tuesday 14 January 2020 | Children’s mental health | Carolyn Perriman | HG19 |
| Wednesday 22 January 2020 | Domestic abuse | Sarah Lewis-Brooke and Social Work Colleagues | C211 |
| Tuesday 28 January 2020 | Working with service users across different gender identities and sexualities | Alfonso Pezzella | HG19 |
| Wednesday 5 February 2020 | Mental Health Assessment | Ruairi Mulhern Lawrence Dadzie | C211 |
| Thursday 6 February 2020 | Supporting service users across different gender identities | Alfonso Pezzella | CG76 |
| Tuesday 11 February 2020 | Deaf awareness | Meghan Luton | HG19 |
| Wednesday 19 February 2020 | Suicide prevention and cultural diversity | Erminia Colucci | C211 |
| Tuesday 25 February 2020 | Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) | Su Everett Theresa Bourne Lindsey Ahmet | HG19 |
| Wednesday 4 March 2020 | Modern Day Slavery | Monica Tymanowska Gemma Change for MET Police | C211 |
| Tuesday 10 March 2020 | Therapeutic use of animals | Jenny Phillips | HG19 |
| Wednesday 18 March 2020 | Introduction to Children and Adolescents Mental Health Services (CAMHS) | Helen Kehoe | C211 |
| Tuesday 24 March 2020 | Communication I: Activism, professionalism and finding your voice | Nicky Lambert | HG19 |
| Tuesday 7 April 2020 | Communication II: Digital professionalism in health and social care | Suzanne Traynor and MyCareAcademy | HG19 |
| Wednesday 8 April 2020 | Working with resistive behaviours (including principles/techniques of Motivational Interviewing) | Carmel Clancy | C211 |
| Wednesday 15 April 2020 | Forensic mental health | Lawrence Dadzie | C211 |
| Tuesday 21 April 2020 | Inclusive aged care | Trish Hafford-Letchfield | HG19 |
| Wednesday 29 April 2020 | Principles of care planning: The foundation of effective nursing practice | Marion Hinds Georgina Cox | C211 |
| Thursday 30 April 2020 | Animal therapy | Jenny Phillips | CG76 |
| Wednesday 6 May 2020 | Maternal mental health | Laura Foley | C211 |
| Tuesday 12 May 2020 | Mental health first aid | Ruairi Mulhern | HG19 |
| Wednesday 27 May 2020 | Improving physical health needs in mental illness | Herbert Mwebe | C211 |
| Tuesday 2 June 2020 | Drug and Alcohol I: Awareness | Carmel Clancy | HG19 |
| Wednesday 10 June 2020 | Drug and Alcohol II: Assessment | Carmel Clancy | C211 |
| Tuesday 16 June 2020 | Communication III: Managing difficult conversations with service users (including breaking bad news) | Nicky Lambert | HG19 |
| Wednesday 24 June 2020 | Leading people | Mary Sexton | C211 |
