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Dear all Please see below for details of an event which may be of interest to Study Group members. Best wishes Helene What future in mind? Critical Perspectives on Youth Wellbeing and Mental Health University of Westminster, London - Fri 18 May 2018 10:00 - 16:00 This day seminar will examine how concepts of wellbeing and mental health are being applied to children and young people, and will critically explore how positive minds and futures are being envisaged by policy makers. Questions to be discussed include: * Why is state intervention in the social and emotional lives of children and young people increasing? Can it improve lives and increase happiness or does it instead seek to foreclose the future for the next generation, securing a problematic (unhappy) status quo? * As late capitalism is buffeted by global economic crises are the minds of the young increasingly coveted as key sites to anchor and stabilize market based rationality? * Can the concept of wellbeing be reclaimed as a socially located experience or is it necessarily a personalised, psychological variable? * What alternative ways are there to understand and support the best interests and wellbeing of young people? Speakers include: Kristiina Brunila - University of Helsinki Erica Burman - University of Manchester Val Gillies - University of Westminster Marian Olson - University of Dalarna university, Simon Pemberton - University of Birmingham Mark Cieslik - University of Northumbria More details and to book a free place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-future-in-mind-critical-perspectives-on-youth-wellbeing-and-mental-health-tickets-44841516182 The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer "