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ADULT-PROTECTION The discussion list has developed in response to the growing concern around abuse, neglect and exploitation of vulnerable adults. The response has been encapsulated in the ‘No Secrets: Guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults’ Framework, announced in 2000.
ALCOHOL-MISUSE A discussion list for researchers, lecturers and practitioners with an interest in alcohol misuse. This list is intended primarily for the UK alcohol information and treatment community.
ALONSERPER Establishing and constructing an alternative heuristics for the study of the human subject and existence as whole, unique and dynamic, self-constructing totalities
APIG This list allows academics and clinicians to share methods and ideas relating to outcome measurement and evaluation for individual cases. Quantitative and qualitative approaches to evaluation are wecomed. Subscribers are encouraged to share ideas for practice and post questions which they would value feedback / discussion.
AT-QUALS-AND-TRAINING To investigate and promote the need for recognition of AT as a vocational area requiring formal qualifications, development, and training
BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE-BNIM Used by researchers and teachers using BNIM to explore questions of method and support each other's work.
BUDDHISM-AND-MENTALHEALTH A community set up to discuss the relationship between Buddhist ideas and the delivery of Mental Health Care- for anyone with an interest in exploring the impact Buddhist thought and practice can have on our experience as professionals and or as users of the system.
CAMHS This is a dedicated mailing list for CAMHS professionals to enable them to discuss issues, exchange information, gain and provide support to peers, problem solve etc in order to develop culturally competent CAMHS services.
CARE-QUESTIONS List for obtaining information from stakeholders for the care questions study.
CARER-FORUM Provides a forum for critical researchers to debate caregiving issues, provides a link between the voluntary sector and academia, and to advertise caregiving events, publications, and projects.
CHILD-CARE-TEACHERS The child-care-teachers mailing list is to enable discussion and exchange of practice in relation to learning and teaching in child care in UK Higher Education Institutions. It is supported by the ltsn Subject Centre for social policy and social work (SWAPltsn)
CHILDPARTICIPATIONNETWORK This Network provides a space for critical learning, dialogue and exchange between practitioners, academics, policy makers and children and young people to innovate thinking and practice concerning children's participation
CHILDPOVERTY This list is an open discussion forum for those interested in research and policy relating to child poverty.
COMMUNITY-MEDIA This list is used to discuss Community Media Research issues, activities, projects and events.
CRIMINALJUSTICE-PRACTICEVSPOLICY This list is for practitoners and academics wishing to build networks and discuss current criminal justice issues. Also a way for CCJS to announce current activities of interest to the members
DISABILITY-CEE-FSU This list provides a forum for those with an interest in disability and mental health issues in the former Socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It is intended to bring together a range of user groups, including academics, students, representatives of governments and NGOs, independent consultants, and activists.
DISABLEDCHILDRENSLIVES This list is used for the ESRC seminar series project 'Researching the lives of disabled children and young people, with a focus on their perspectives'
DRUGS-AND-DIVERSITY This list is part of the communication network being set up to support the work on diversity in drug treatment services. Nine pilot sites have signed up to be part of this research project which is being faciltated by the Centre for Ethnicity and Health on behalf of the National Treatment Agency (NTA) for Substance Misuse in England.
EIPEN Learning together to work together: EIPEN aims to establish a sustainable inclusive network of people and organisations in partner EU countries to share and develop effective interprofessional learning and teaching for improving collaborative practice and multi agency working in health and social care.
EQUALITY This list helps to bring together researchers working on the various aspects of human rights and how they affect society including age discrimination, religion and belief, sexual orientation, disability discrimination, gender equality/sex discrimination, race discrimination, prejudice etc. to discuss research and share knowledge and information.
ETHICSNET Discussion list for learning and teaching in ethics and social welfare
ETHNICITY-AND-REPRODUCTION This list was created by a group of researchers with a particular interest in ethnicity, culture and religion and the ways they impact upon people's experiences of reproduction; especially involuntary childlessness. It is an open forum for the exchange of ideas relating to all aspects of ethnicity, infertility and reproduction.
GROUNDED-THEORY The list covers issues related to qualitative data analysis - grounded theory, which is useful among many disciplines.
GROUP-THERAPY To promote discussion among counsellors regarding the issues of setting up and running Group Counselling in HE institutions, and to share expertise and experience in this field.
INTSOCWORK INTSOCWORK is for academics, practitioners and students who have an interest in international or comparative social work.
INTUTE-SOCIALSCIENCES This list will keep you informed of the latest news from Intute: Social Sciences, a free, national Internet service that provides the academic community with access to the very best Web resources for education and research in the social sciences, including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism. See http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/ (combines two former lists:SOSIG and ALTIS. Intute is the new name for the Resource Discovery Network, RDN).
JISC-DRM This list is intended for discussion of issues affecting digital rights management (DRM) in the UK HE and FE communities. This encompasses all aspects of DRM including recognition, assertion, expression, dissemination, exposure and enforcement of rights.
JUC-SWEC For members of the Joint University Council's Social Work Education Committee - for distribution of information and discussion of common concerns. JUC is open to all HEIs providing social work education at degree level or above, and/or with research interests in this field.
LIS-CHILDRENS-SERVICES This list is for subject librarians, information professionals and researchers to exchange knowledge, ideas and best paractice in supporting teaching,learning, research and policy in subject areas covered by the Children Act and Children's Services. This is a new approach as co-operation between these separate subject areas will be mutually beneficial.
LOCALCOMMUNITYSAFETYPARTNERSHIP This mailing list promotes discussion and a network of academics and practitioners working in the areas of voluntary and community sector involvement in community safety and supporting offenders.
MHHE-EASTMIDLANDS This list is for information sharing, discussion and debate between all those involved in learning and teaching about mental health, within higher education, across the disciplines and professions in the East Midlands Region. It complements, and feeds in to, the work of the Mental Health in Higher Education project (mhhe) - a project of the Higher Education Academy.
MHHE-WESTMIDLANDS This list is for information sharing, discussion and debate between all those involved in learning and teaching about mental health, within higher education, across the disciplines and professions in the West Midlands Region. It complements, and feeds into, the work of the Mental Health in Higher Education project (mhhe) - a project of the Higher Education Academy Sub-List of MHHE
MIXED The list is a valuable space to promote debate, make announcements, post press releases, circulate related conferences and training and educational events, book reviews, and share best practice amongst the academic and professioanl community,and with those directly or indirectly working in the field of 'mixed race identity' and transracial/cultural parenting.
NOSOKINETICS-NEWSLETTER This list is used by the Nosokinetics to distribute the bi-monthly Nosokinetics newsletter.
PARENTINGRESEARCH The Parenting Research List has been established by the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships to facilitate discussion, development, collaboration and new research on parenting. It is open to academics, researchers in the public and voluntary sectors, and to agencies with an interest in parenting research from both public and voluntary sectors
PERFORMSOCSCI Brings together social scientists with an interest in the use of arts-based and humanities methods in the production and dissemination of social science data.
PSI-CYMRU The purpose of this group is to reach out and facilitate communication between those researching, teaching or practicing psychosocial interventions in wales.
PSYCHOLOGYNETWORK-BIOPSYCH It is intended for psychologists involved in teaching any form of biological psychology. The aim of the list is to disseminate good practice and facilitate more use of practicals in the teaching of biological psychology.
R2R This list is used to gather & disseminate information about the role of libraries in supporting looked-after children & young people
SAS Scottish Addiction Studies is a network of researchers and lecturers at the University of Stirling in Scotland with a primary interest in drug/alcohol/tobacco misuse, gambling and the addictions.
SCARE This list exists to share findings and implications for practice for those researching, teaching or practising in social care, and to act as a forum for discussion of key issues.
SIRCCUPDATE This list is used by the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) to inform child care practitioners, managers, researchers and academics of news and events.
SOCIAL-WORK-SWAP To assist in the promotion of innovation in learning, teaching and assessment in social work. To collate and disseminate information on good practice. To increase awareness of developments in learning and teaching. To share information on pedagogical approaches. To exchange ideas on learning technologies. To inform the community regarding relevant events.
SOCIALWORK-ALCOHOL-DRUGS This list is for social work academics, practitioners and students who have an interest in learning more about alcohol and drugs. It is intended to allow sharing of information and information exchange between the target audience, for example, it will allow students to ask for information from practitioners and academics, academics to find out what others are doing and for practitioners to have a direct line to academics who are specialist in this area and vice versa.
SOCIALWORK-ANTI-RACISM To develop a greater understanding of the dangers of religious fundamentalisms and to develop strategies for challenging this
SOCIALWORK-HEALTHINEQUALITIES The Social Work and Health Inequalities Network is to promote discussion and action by Social Work practitioners, educators and researchers to combat the causes and consequences of unjust and damaging socially created inequalities in health.
SPIRITUAL-HEALTH This list is used by the Health and Spirituality Centre at Staffordshire University to make announcements to further and Higher education and the research community about strategy, programmes, publications, conferences and projects.
SPIRITUALITY-SWED This list provides colleagues with an opportunity to discuss and explore the important but complex issues of religion and spirituality and the ways in which they impact upon social work education, training and practice. These issues are felt to be important by SWAP, and also feature in the National Teaching Fellowship project being run by Bernard Moss at Staffordshire University who is exploring ways in which issues to do with religion and spirituality can be explored creatively in the social work curriculum.
SPRU-A Research information for people interested in disabled and chronically ill adults, older people and their carers issues only. From SPRU, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York.
SPRU-C Research for people interested in disabled and chronically ill children and their families and carers issues only
SPRU-CA Research for people interested in both disabled and chronically ill adults, older people and their carers issues as well as disabled and chronically ill children, their families and carers' issues. Sub list of spruchild Sub list of spruadult
SPRU-CS Research for people interested in social security, employment and welfare/poverty issues plus issues on disabled children, their families and carers. From SPRU, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York. Sub list of sprusocial Subl list of spruchild
SPRU-CW Research reports for everyone who is interested in children in care, children on the edge of care or children in the youth justice system. As well as social care issues for ill/disabled children, their families and carers. From SPRU,the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York.
SPRU-S Research for people interested in social security, employment and welfare/poverty issues only. From SPRU, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York.
SPRU-SA Research for people interested in disabled and chronically ill adults, older people and their carers issues as well as social security, poverty and living standards.
SPRU-W Research reports for everyone who is interested in children in care, children on the edge of care or children in the youth justice system. Adoption and fostering social work issues from SPRU,the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York.
SWAP-ELEARNING The social-work-ltsn-elearning mailing list is used for the discussion of building capacity in e-learning.
SWENT A list to connect local Counsellors and Therapists together as well as Academics and students within the Social Sciences discipline.
TAG This list is used by TAG to make announcement to TAG members. The Training Agencies Group (TAG) represents youth & community work training agencies in the HE sector.
TBIFAMILIES Announcement list primarily although not exclusively for researchers and professionals working in health and social care settings for the dissemination of knowledge and information about traumatic brain injury and its wider effects on carers, relatives and families.
UKSOCWORK UKSOCWORK offers an electronic interface for social work academics, students and practitioners in the UK to discuss topics of shared interest.
USERSANDCARERS This group aims to provide an inclusive and representative strategy for service user and carer involvement and to share and build on existing best practice both internal and external to the University.
WEDHS To establish a multidisciplinary research infrastructure which is rooted in an Equality and Diversity (E&D) agenda and can identify health and social care priorities of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) patients, service users, and groups in Wales. The purpose of this list is to facilitate the development of the network. The aim is to offer members a virtual space to exchange information and develop research collaborations.
WIPSIG The Women in Psychiatry Special Interest Group WIPSIG is a subsection of the Royal College of Psychiatrists which promotes mental health services for women, their families and carers, and enables women psychiatrists to achieve their potential across the NHS, academic institutions and the independant sector.
YCYJ This list is a forum for for academics and others involved in the study of youth crime, youth criminology and youth justice. It supports the Youth Criminology / Youth Justice Study Network of the British Society of Criminology and is open to all other interested parties. The list acts as a resource for the announcement of relevant meetings, seminars, conferences, calls for papers, research and publications. It is also hoped that members will use the list to share and debate ideas and ways of disseminating ideas into the practice and policy field.
YOUNGPERSONS-PSYCHIATRIC-NURSING This is a discussion forum for all those working or researching in the area of child and adolescent mental health nursing.
YP-POLICY This discussion group has developed in response to the UK's changing policies on prostitution, especially in relation to young people in prostitution. This list is for academics, researchers and practitioners with an interest in this area.
