Dear list members
Some of you may be interested in attending these lectures. Please do
feel free to post this on other e-lists or similar as the lectures are
open. It would be useful, though, if anyone planning to attend could
contact Charlie Asher - details below.
Chris McCourt
Faculty of Health and Human Sciences - PROFESSORS’ INAUGURAL LECTURE
SERIES – OPEN TO EVERYONE
Thursday 27 January 2005 18.30 Ealing Room TC 132
Professor Bob Gates – ‘ Marching forward to stand still: Learning
Disability Services in Context’
Over the past few decades the landscape of service provision for people
with learning disabilities has changed beyond recognition. We have
moved from segregated institutional forms of residential provision to
more community oriented styles of living. The current configuration of
day care provision is moving people with learning disabilities from
highly centralised large-scale Day Centres to real work opportunities
and the use of local leisure and educational resources. However,
notwithstanding these developments people with learning disabilities
still represent one of the most devalued and marginalised groups of
people within our society. Drawing from his research and that of other
contemporary work in the UK Bob will caution an over optimistic and
simplistic belief as to the scale of progress made. He will conclude
with a positive vision of the future that will require people with
learning disabilities and their supporters to use new legislation such
as the Disability Discrimination Act and the Humans Rights Act to bring
about real, positive and lasting changes to their lives.
Thursday 10 February 2005 18.30 Ealing Room TC 132
Professor Nigel Wellman – ‘Mental Health nursing and the future:
developing excellence in mental health nursing research, education and
practice’
Professor Wellman will present a personal and idiosyncratic overview of
the current state of mental health nursing in the UK set against some of
the political and historical context and also present a vision of how
TVU can develop as a centre of excellence for mental health education,
research and practice over the next 5-10 years.
Wednesday 16 March 2005 18.30 Ealing
Professor Nicola Robinson - ‘Integrating Complementary Medicine – A
vision from China’
Professor Robinson received a prestigious Winston Churchill Memorial
Trust Travelling Fellowship for 2004. During her 8 week study trip to
China, she visited over 35 universities, colleges and hospitals to
collect information on the integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
This material informs the current debate on how and whether
complementary medicine can or should be integrated into healthcare in
the UK.
Tuesday 12 April 2005 18.30 Ealing
Professor Debra Bick - ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost? Challenges to midwifery
care in the 21st century’
Despite increasing evidence of the effectiveness of midwifery-led care
for the woman and her baby, the fragmentation of maternity services has
continued apace. Midwives continue to work across different models of
care with limited evaluation of benefit for maternal and infant health,
resource use or utilisation of midwifery skills. Successive policy
initiatives have emphasised the importance of access to and provision of
midwifery-led care, yet this is under threat from a number of fronts -
lack of resource to implement, evaluate and sustain change, increased
medical intervention, issues of recruitment and retention and ever
changing health service priorities.
This presentation will reflect on the transformation of midwifery
practice across the centuries, evidence to support or refute current
changes, and potential to promote and optimise the contribution of
midwifery care to women, their babies, families and society. It will
propose that challenges to midwifery care in the 21st century should be
addressed by reflecting on evidence of what has gone on before, in order
to inform the future direction of change.
If you would like further information or to book a place, please contact
Charlie Asher (x801 2903, [log in to unmask]),
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