South Eastern Division Prizes
Applications now open for 2020 prizes
Welcome to the South Eastern division Prizes/Award winners page. Each year the Division offers prizes and awards at the Spring Conference.
For more information on the prizes/awards offered by the Division, please contact the manager Karen Morgan.
Open to all SAS Doctors, Higher Trainees ST4-6 and Core Trainees CT1-3 working in the South Eastern Division who are Specialist Associates, Affiliates, PMPTs or members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
You are invited to submit a poster and abstract on any area of psychiatry.
A limited number of posters will be chosen to be displayed at the Spring Meeting on 13 May 2020 and the abstract printed in the Programme and Abstracts Booklet. Posters must not exceed 750 mm x 1000 mm - portrait.
Please send your entry form (DOC) and abstract by Friday 17 April 2020 to Karen Morgan via email: karen.morgan@rcpsych.ac.uk
A maximum of 10 posters will be considered on the day and these will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Only 1 poster may be submitted per applicant.
Open to all Foundation Year Doctors and Medical Students working or studying in the South Eastern Division who are Affiliates or Members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
You are invited to submit a poster and abstract on any area of psychiatry.
A limited number of posters will be chosen to be displayed at the Spring Meeting on 13 May 2020 and the abstract printed in the Programme and Abstracts booklet. Posters must not exceed 750 mm x 1000 mm - portrait.
Please send your entry form (doc) and abstract by Friday 17 April 2020 to Karen Morgan via email.
Open to anyone with a connection with mental health who resides in the geographical region of the Royal College of Psychiatrists South Eastern Division.
All entrants must have some connection with mental health i.e.people who use mental health services or their family/friends, professionals providing care, people working in the mental health sector, i.e. ward clerks, secretaries, cleaners, etc.
You are invited to submit an unpublished poem with a theme related to any aspect of mental health.
The poems of the winners will be published on the Royal College of Psychiatrists website and in the Programme and Abstracts booklet for the annual Spring Meeting.
Please send your entry form (DOC) and poem by Wednesday 27 April 2020 via email to karen.morgan@rcpsych.ac.uk, or via post to Karen Morgan, South Eastern Division Manager, South Eastern Division Office, Floor 2 Baltic House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5FH.
Last year's winners (Spring Conference 2019)
Overall Winner
Dr Victoria Dawe – "Homelessness and Access to Healthcare in Portsmouth"
Greatest Innovation/Service Improvement
Dr Rachel Kurien-Walsh – "Family and carer involvement in acute psychiatric hospital admissions: a closed loop audit of inpatients on Meridian ward, Millview Hospital between April-May, and August-September 2018"
Overall Winner
Dr Holly Taylor – "Service user and relatives experience of a shared care model between specialist and generic mental health services for those with First Episode Psychosis over the age of 35"
Winner
Louisa Campbell – "Finding Nico"
Finding Nico
Was it her, dancing on top of a hundred-foot pole,
calling the world to come up?
Was it her that married the stranger?
Was it her low that divorced him?
Each year she signs up to save the world; each year she drops
out, feeling the air pressing down like an anvil.
She cries. She laughs. She says,
My life is a party that nobody comes to.
Often, she feels like screaming;
sometimes she does –
it sounds like a fountain of glass.
She sees herself in the pieces,
the same way lost treasures are found
while searching for something else.