Developing a Users & Carers involvement group for My Home Life: what have we learned?

Posted on February 12, 2015 by sbbh110

The Quality of Care for Older People research centre hosts My Home Life; a social movement emphasising quality of health, care and management for all those who live, work, visit and die in care homes.

Date: Wednesday 24 June 2015 at 3-4pm

Venue: Room A226, College Building, City University London

It is important to the integrity of health and care services research to include the experiences of service users and carers. My Home Life within the Quality of Care for Older People research centre at City University London is entering the next phase of its work, sustainability and community engagement, and a dedicated users and carers involvement group is central to this.

Join speakers Professor Julienne Meyer and Dr Anne Laybourne as they reflect on our experiences of developing My Home Life’s Users & Carers Involvement group, present our expectations and report what happened in reality, lessons learned and thoughts for sustaining this group in the future.

Community Engagement Seminar Series – Jacqueline Davies’ Case Study

Posted on November 26, 2014 by sbbh110

Now available on the blog

Jacqueline Davies, Lecturer in the Nursing Division

School of Health Sciences

Case Study on:

Public Health Walks: A Methodology for Taking Students into their Communities of Practice.

City University London students are undertaking public health walks in their communities of practice in the first term of nurse training. On their walks in public spaces students observe and reflect on the healthiness of the community. Please click on the link below for the full report:

Community Engagement and User Involvement in Teaching and Research Seminar series Jacqueline Davies

Seminar: 26th November 2014, 1-2pm

Posted on November 20, 2014 by sbbh110

“(Almost) Everything you need to know about identifying, recruiting and supporting patients/service users as collaborators in education and research”

26^t^h November 2014, 1-2pm

A225, College Building, City University London

Join Professor Alan Simpson Professor of Collaborative Mental Health Nursing in the School of Health Sciences, City University London and Lead for the Centre for Mental Health Research, in exploring how educators and researchers often see the merits of involving patients or service users in their teaching or research studies and are keen to ‘give it a go’ but get waylaid in various worries, concerns and questions. Things like:

“How do I identify and engage suitable people?”

“What can I ask them to do?”

“What if the stress makes them ill?”

“Will the students listen to them?”

“What about training and support?”

During the seminar Professor Simpson will draw on research literature, his experiences and those of colleagues to explore some of these challenges and how best to address them.

Six Innovative Projects to Support Service User Involvement in Healthcare Education

Posted on July 22, 2014 by sbbh110

Awards to support innovative approaches to service user involvement in healthcare education and research

Thank you to everyone who submitted their applications to this award scheme. I am very happy to announce that the following six innovative projects to support service user involvement in healthcare education and research in SHS will be funded in partnership with Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD).

The winning proposals are:

Melissa Chamney (Adult Years): Service users’ and carers’ collaboration within adult student nurse learning.
Shashivadan Hirani (Health Services Research and Management): Utilising service user expectations and experiences of mobile assistive technologies to improve service provision training of health and social care professionals.
Byki Huntjens (Optometry and Visual Science): ‘My Experiences in the Big Chair’: Service user experiences of common eye diseases.
Anne Laybourne and Julienne Meyer (Adult Years): My Home Life (MHL) Users and Carers project: Developing user and carer ambassadors for promoting quality of life in care homes for older people.
Abigail Levin, Celia Harding and Ros Herman (Language and Communication Science): The evaluation of a coordinated approach to service user involvement across LCS teaching.
Ahalya Subramanian (Optometry and Visual Science): Increasing patient involvement in Optometry.

Outlines of the six projects can be found by clicking on the link below.

Awards to Support Innovative Approach to Servicer User Involvement_Final List

We will keep you updated on the progress of the projects over the next year and staff will also be presenting their work supported by the funds at one of the Community Engagement Lunchtime Seminar Series.

Alan Simpson

Chair, SHS Community Engagement (Service User Involvement) Strategy Committee

New Case Studies and Community Engagement Lunchtime Seminar

Posted on April 4, 2014 by sbbh110

This week we have uploaded three new case studies; please click on the links below to read about the recent experiences of staff inviting user and carer participants into the classroom:

Language and Communication Sciences: Using adults who have learning disabilities to teach speech and language therapy students

Language and Communication Sciences: Exploring the Needs of Young People and Teenagers

Mental Health: Simulated Practice: Working in partnership with carers

Also don’t forget the next lunchtime ‘Community Engagement’ seminar is taking place on Monday 7th April:

‘Building a Research Community:

The Benefits of Working Collaboratively with People with Aphasia’

Abi Roper, Judith Kistner and Sarah Northcott

School of Health Sciences

Monday 7th April 2014 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

A225, College Building, City University London, EC1V 0HB

[All Welcome]

For further information contact: a.simpson@city.ac.uk

Staff Lunchtime Seminar Series

Posted on March 25, 2014 by sbbh110

Community Engagement and User Involvement

Exploring innovative approaches to involving patients, service users, carers and the public in health education and research

‘Building a Research Community:

The Benefits of Working Collaboratively with People with Aphasia’

Abi Roper, Judith Kistner and Sarah Northcott

School of Health Sciences

Monday 7th April 2014 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

A225, College Building, City University London, EC1V 0HB

[All Welcome]

For further information contact: a.simpson@city.ac.uk

Community Engagement

(User and Carer Involvement)

Category Archives: Staff Lunchtime Seminar Series 2014

Developing a Users & Carers involvement group for My Home Life: what have we learned?

Community Engagement Seminar Series – Jacqueline Davies’ Case Study

Now available on the blog

Jacqueline Davies, Lecturer in the Nursing Division

School of Health Sciences

Case Study on:

Public Health Walks: A Methodology for Taking Students into their Communities of Practice.

Seminar: 26th November 2014, 1-2pm

“(Almost) Everything you need to know about identifying, recruiting and supporting patients/service users as collaborators in education and research”

26^t^h November 2014, 1-2pm

A225, College Building, City University London

Six Innovative Projects to Support Service User Involvement in Healthcare Education

New Case Studies and Community Engagement Lunchtime Seminar

Language and Communication Sciences: Using adults who have learning disabilities to teach speech and language therapy students

Language and Communication Sciences: Exploring the Needs of Young People and Teenagers

Mental Health: Simulated Practice: Working in partnership with carers

‘Building a Research Community:

The Benefits of Working Collaboratively with People with Aphasia’

Staff Lunchtime Seminar Series

Community Engagement and User Involvement

Exploring innovative approaches to involving patients, service users, carers and the public in health education and research

‘Building a Research Community:

The Benefits of Working Collaboratively with People with Aphasia’