Projects funded

 

Projects offered funding as part of the Images of Psychiatry campaign are listed below by the campaign area of focus they relate to:

 
  Service user and carer projects   Division
1.

Web-based training resource showing best practice in involving service users and carers in training and selection.

 

  

Joint project:

Service User & Carer

Working Group and Trent
2.

Mersey Care NHS Trust and Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA) dance and dance movement project on in-patient wards in the Mersey Care NHS Trust area.

   North West
3.

Web and DVD-based demonstration film of a 'Kidstime' seminar, providing information on mental health and mental illness to children and young people in a clear and easily-understandable way.

   London
4. National Carers' Health Survey.   Irish

 

 

  Perceptions of psychiatry projects   Division
1.

Research to establish the attitudes amongst GPs to psychiatry and the delivery of its education to undergraduates.

  

West Midlands
2.

Research examining the perceptions of psychiatry across FY1 and FY2 Scottish foundation trainees.

   Scottish

 

 

  School curriculum projects   Division
1.

Joint psychiatric and theatre project to provide psychoeducation for the prevention of self-harm in secondary schools in the South West. 

  

South West
2.

World Mental Health Day inter-school public speaking competition.

  

Northern Ireland
3. Children's spring/summer debate 2008, in Wales.   Welsh
4. Embedding mental health in the school curriculum.   West Midlands
5. Topical debate for 16-35 year olds in Cambridge.   Eastern

 

 

  Undergraduate education projects   Division
1. Web-based modular educational resource representing phases of treatment.  

Joint project:

Addictions

Faculty and London
2. Establishing a Psychiatry Society for students and Foundation Year doctors at the University of Southampton.   South Eastern
3. Spike Milligan public speaking competition between all six medical schools in Ireland.  

Joint project:

Irish and

Northern Ireland
4.

Develop the student component of the College website and a website to promote careers in psychiatry.

 

  

Joint project:

Trent and Northern & Yorkshire

 
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