The bid process
As part of the Images of Psychiatry campaign, bids for funding
of projects which supported the aims of the campaign
were invited from the College Divisions.
In total, 33 bids from across all the Divisions were received,
with the funding requested totally almost £270,000.
From a campaign fund totalling £75,000, awards were made to
15 bids, with each Division being offered funding for one or
more project.
Campaign focus areas:
Each project links into one of the four main focus areas of the
campaign. These areas are:
Users and carers: to develop mutual
understanding and respect between users, carers and psychiatrists,
and to promote involvement of users and carers in all aspects
of mental health services, such as training and selection.
Perceptions of psychiatry: to clearly
define the nature and role of modern psychiatry.
School curriculum: to raise the
profile of mental health in schools, include eduction about
mental health on the required curriculum and to provide
information and continuing professional development (CPD) for
teachers.
Undergraduate education: to develop
web-based resources of good practice for undergraduate teaching of
psychiatry and to promote psychiatry as a career.