Subject: RE: Proposal for a community psychology section
Dear list members,
Thanks to all the contributors to the press release and letters to the
editor(s). I appreciate all your work on behalf of the network.
This is a response to the thread about the BPS section. David is right,
I'm happy to do whatever of the spadework that remains to be done,
related to a BPS section, after the Christmas break. I'm still trying to
catch up after the conference, hence my silence. I have been hoping to
get some of the conference presentations onto a website soon.
David, I'm pleased to hear that the lobbying you and others have been
doing with the BPS seems to be producing results.
I'm also encouraged to see the greater involvement of a number of the
list members in the current debates. Is there anyone out there wanting
to take up the baton for the next conference and / or a meeting to
formalise a collective of some sort, to enable us to affiliate with the
European organisation? There were some ideas at the end of the York
conference, and I'm aware that the meeting in the Midlands next February
(Beyond Belief), and the other event advertised at MMU in September
(Asylum! Conference and festival) may already be of interest to members
of the network, though we could think of something before / after /
linked to one of these?
All the best,
Jacqui
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From: David Fryer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 October 2007 10:36
To: Annie Mitchell; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask];
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Subject: RE: Proposal for a community psychology section - message from
Jim orford
Hi Annie & All,
I think that Jacqui asked me to pass on all the stuff until after
Christmas and I have been waiting for a free spell to pull stuff
together and maybe make a bit more progress
The context is changing . . . I am having quite a lot of contact with
the BPS at the moment including last week meeting with the BPS Chief
Exec Officer Tim Cornford and a Trustee (re a big global warming
confernece). This high level activity may not be bad thing for section
status and I have also heard (by mistake!) that I am to be invited to
talk about BPS accredited degree teaching / syllabus issues in the
future to do with community psychology in a Society Symposium at the BPS
Annual Conf in Dublin in 2008. So it looks like the drip drip of pro CP
lobbying at the BPS is doing something
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Annie Mitchell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 October 2007 10:16
To: [log in to unmask]; David Fryer; [log in to unmask];
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[log in to unmask]; Jacqueline Akhurst (J.Akhurst)
Subject: RE: Proposal for a community psychology section - message from
Jim orford
Dear all,
At the recent community psych conference at York we had a further
discussion/ workshop about the move towards trying to set up a
community psychology section in the BPS. We are already some way down
the line, with most of the required bits that we understand may be
needed having been written, and David has been pulling things together
for us.
We generally agreed ( with the usual reservations and ambivalences
noted) that given we had been sanctioned to go ahead with this by a
previous conference, and that generally at the York workshop people
wanted to move ahead with this, and that given we had been given a sort
of amber (ish) light by the BPS ( despite their current embargo on new
sections), that we must press on. .
David said that he wanted to stay on board with this but was ready to
hand the co-ordinating baton on to someone else. Jacqui Ackhurst kindly
agreed that she would take on the baton once the dust was settled from
her organising of the York conference. Are you ready now Jacqui?
A lot of work has been done on this now - it just needs pulling
together. David I think you said you'd pass the various already written
bits on to Jacqui.
You all may know that the BPS arranged a national seminar on social
inclusion recently. Jan and I were both there. Fabian Davies, who has
been pushing for the BPS to take social inclusion seriously and who was
mainly responsible for putting the day together, was aware of the work
of the community psychology network and knew we are pressing for a
section. He seemed to want to find ways to co-operate if we could -
though I am not sure where this is now going in the BPS. Jan may have
further thoughts.
Annie
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Annie Mitchell
Clinical Director,
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology,
School of Applied Psychosocial Studies,
Faculty of Health and Social Work,
University of Plymouth,
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