Dearest London Community Psychology Network
Better late than never with the details of the venues for our upcoming talks!
Plus get involved with the CP festival - see below. And read about who are the Psychologists Against Austerity's campaign supporters now in high places..? Plus conferences of interest.. all below..
1) A London Community Psychology Network Session THIS THURSDAY
Thurs September 17th 2015, 6.30-8.30pm, Haldane Room at UCL in Central London in Wilkins Building in main UCL quadrant, nearest tubes Warren St, Euston, Goodge St. http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/screenRoute.aspx?s=15&d=187&w=False
'Thinking about the Relationship between Debt Problems and Psychological Distress'
Dr Sam Thompson (trainee Clin Psych) will present his thesis research on this topic and facilitate the discussion. Please come along and join the discussion about how this work can inform our practice and ideas.
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2) A London Community Psychology Network Session
Tues October 6th 2015, 6.30 - 8.30/9pm, Haldane Room at UCL in Central London in Wilkins Building in main UCL quadrant, nearest tubes Warren St, Euston, Goodge St. http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/screenRoute.aspx?s=15&d=187&w=False
As promised (see my last email to the network below), Dr Lynne Friedli has offered to come back and facilitate her workshop. Hooray! Dr Lynne Friedli talk/workshop will be on 'The Misuse of Psychology In Government Workfare Programmes'.
See Lynne's co-authored paper on this here: http://mh.bmj.com/content/41/1/40 then media reports here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33060794 and here http://theconversation.com/facing-psychological-coercion-and-manipulation-has-become-a-daily-part-of-claiming-benefits-42839
Agree or disagree? Come and join the discussion...Lynne is making waves around this so it's a great time to discuss the issues.
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3) Relaunch meeting event for London Psychologists Against Austerity (PAA). Weds 23rd Sept, 6.30pm,
UCL- Drayton B06 (in Drayton House), 30 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AX,
Here is a map of UCL: http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/screenRoute.aspx?s=68&d=71&w=False
Although we remain non-party political, we find ourselves in exciting times as one of PAA's biggest politicial supporters is now the Shadow Chancellor and the new Shadow Minister for Mental Health attended our launch event at the House of Lords. So we are ready to re-launch!
Come and join us, all welcome! Whatever time or efforts you can spare the campaign - you're very welcome.
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The 2nd Community Psychology Festival will take place on November 20-21st 2015 at Bridge 5 Mill, Manchester. The theme of the Festival is Creativity, Collaboration and Community and the invitation for contributions and registrations is now open. See:
www.bps.org.uk/community2015 www.kc-jones.co.uk/community2015
The festival is open to all with an interest in social justice, wellbeing and community cohesion and a limited number of bursaries are available
If you have any queries about contributions, please contact [log in to unmask]
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CONFERENCES that may be of interest
1) Rethinking trauma and resilience in the context of political violence: new directions in research and practice, Nov 14-15th 2015, London
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/1702/14-nov-2015-rethinking-trauma-and-resilience-in-the-context-of-political-violence-new-directions-in-research-and/?utm_source=Print&utm_medium=Print&utm_campaign=Rethinking%20Trauma%20conference%20printed%20materials
2) Medact's Health Through Peace Conference - loving Medact, loving this conference. Nov 13-14th, London
http://www.medact.org/events/peace-health/
3) David Smail Conference, Power Interest and Psychology, 12-13th Nov, Birmingham
http://www.bps.org.uk/events/power-interest-and-psychology-developing-david-smail%E2%80%99s-ideas
See you Thursday hopefully!
Best wishes
Sally
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