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newCommunity Psychology UK Annual Conference 2007

bridge.bmp                    Conference leaflet to download

 

Conference Announcement and Invitation to Contribute

Theme: Sharing Spaces and Places

York St John University, York, UK
13 and 14 September 2007

This is an annual conference of people from a variety of specialisms and settings who have interests utilising the principles of community psychology to underpin their work. The conference will provide opportunities to hear presentations, attend workshops and network with people with similar interests from across the UK and beyond. Individuals and small groups from a range of organisations and agencies will be able to meet together and exchange information on practice, research, and policy in action.

The conference will be organised around the theme Sharing Spaces and Places.

Potential threads are:

Link to conference website

Birmingham

Community Psychology  Practice Development Day

talk on 'a global context for psychology' that was given to start discussion

Friday 20th April, 2007:  9.30 am – 4.30 pm
At the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham  cost £15 (payable on the door)   MAP and Directions

This event will give participants the opportunity to work with community psychology colleagues from a range of settings (including those of higher education and health care). Participants will also develop their understanding of the practical implications of oppressive practices. They will than have the opportunity to generate responses which they and the groups they work with will find useful.

The day will begin with introductory presentations raising some critical issues for consideration and action. These presentations will cover a range of levels of activity, from the global to the local.

Following this, participants will organise into working groups. These working groups will collaborate to develop practical outcomes which will be useful in addressing the impact of oppressive practices.

Anybody wishing to attend should contact Carl Harris in advance to allow us to have an idea of numbers.

Email: carl.harrisATbch.nhs.uk   (replace the 'AT' with @ if emailing)

Tel: 0121 243 2036

Organised by the West Midlands Critical and Community Psychology Interest Group

National Community Psychology Conference 2006

UK Community Psychology Conference 2006  Making Waves
21—22 September in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Conference call for papers - link to pdf <<= click to download pdf file. 

Sixth European Conference on Community Psychology
Opole, Poland, from October 6th to the 8th.

- abstracts to be in by July 1.
conference website - click the empire flag to get the English version

REMOVING BARRIERS TO INCLUSION: “EVERY CHILD MATTERS”

Seminar 15th May 06  10.00 – 3.30
Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London

£20.00 (includes lunch) pay on day

Pesentations:

1.                   Mark Wilson: In pursuit of Inclusion – building a value bases practice in educational psychology

2.                   Keith Venables: working together better

 The Seminar will explore developing good praxctice3 throughout the UK using as participative approach, workshops and presentations

 Book a place before 10th May:

EPs for Inclusion

CULTURAL HISTORICAL  PSYCHOLOGY IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN CUBA
Dr. Israel Mayo Parra, University of Holguin, Cuba.

Israel Mayo is a BPS Visiting Fellow.

Friday 12 May 2006 at  3.00pm
At Manchester Metropolitan University, Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Hathersage Road, Manchester.

Note:  The Historical Cultural Approach is the Vygotskian approach.  It is important in Cuba and informs both theory and practice, alongside a variety of other approaches many of which are more familiar to us here.
This talk will not be on Community Psychology as such, but it is relevant, particularly since in Cuba there is a significant development of community health psychology.

Israel will also be speaking in Birmingham (9 and 10 May), Leicester (15 May), Nottingham (17 May) and London (UEL) (18 May)

Manchester
International Conference 
Community, Work and Family: Change and Transformation 
Manchester Metropolitan University 

16-18th March 2005  - abstracts and written versions of many of the papers presented  are still avaialble on the conference website: click here

The International peer-reviewed journal "Community, Work and Family"  held its first international conference in Manchester, 
16th - 18th March 2005.

The 2007 conference was in Lisboa, Portugal 12th - 14th April 2007  

Community, Work & Family II International Conference - Making the Connections in a Global Context  will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on the 12th - 14th April 2007.

- organised by the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE), together with the international editorial team of the journal Community, Work & Family.


The official website can be viewed at http://www.cwf2007.cies.iscte.pt

Manchester

TIPS graphic click to go to pdf fileAn Action Research Approach To
Support Widening Participation,
Student Retention, Achievement
And Progression.









National - Newcastle
National Community Psychology Conference 2005
Newcastle upon Tyne, Thurs 13th & Fri 14th October
 
Conference Theme:
Practice and Values in Community Psychology
Information (includes booking form)

Newcastle
NORTH EAST COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY NETWORK
The Impact of Inequality: A Psychology of Whole Societies
Richard Wilkinson, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham

free public lecture
Friday 24th March 2006
1.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
University of Newcastle
Department of Clinical Psychology
Ridley Building
Room to be confirmed
Contact:     Janet Bostock
        Tel: 01670 396130

Inequality has always been regarded as divisive and socially corrosive and now we have the figures to prove it.  The more unequal of the developed societies suffer more of almost all the problems related to relative deprivation.  They have worse health, more violence, higher rates of teenage births, people trust each other less, prison populations are larger and community life is weaker. Rather than thinking that inequality and national standards of performance in different fields are separate issues, it is more accurate to think that inequality plays a powerful role in determining national standards of health, levels of violence, and the prevalence of a wide range of other social problems.  Inequality has such powerful psychosocial and behavioural effects because it involves a change in the quality of human relationships.


PRESTON

International Conference on Violence, Trauma and Recovery
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
8 & 9 September 2005

Organised by the Faculty of Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK In association with Psych-trauma jiscmail
This two day event will combine an international conference for 'Trauma Therapist' with a conference for professionals who deal with violence and trauma on a regular basis.

Papers/workshops are still considered from any discipline or perspective relevant to the management or care of trauma victims and in
particular those related to violence.  Proposals by practitioners, service users, decision and policy makers, as well as by academics, students,
researchers and advocates are welcomed.

Details - contact: Liz Kelly
Events Co-ordinator
Faculty of Health
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, PR1 2HE
Telephone +44(0)1772 893809, Fax +44 (01772) 892995, ejkelly@uclan.ac.uk

Salford

Doing it Differently: Social Perspectives and Research in Mental Health.
October 5th 2005 
Aims of the conference:
The day will bring together groups of people interested in Mental Health Research from a social perspective ....
 More info:      info sheet       booking form

Exeter - National Event 
 

UK Community Psychology Conference
14/15 October 2004 

South WestCommunity Psychology Network hosted the UK Community Psychology Conference at the Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter, on Thursday and Friday,14th and 15th October 2004, on the theme: 
Challenging Inequalities: What Can Community Psychology Do?

little fishes are strong togetherclick here for papers and presentations !  New

and click here for the programme !


Sheffield
CONFERENCE  Sheffield 26th November 2004 Working with Multiple Heritage Children
 
   

Nottingham
FREE PUBLIC PRESENTATION

DEVELOPING COMMUNITY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN LATIN AMERICA

Prof. Bernardo Jimenez Dominguez, University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Friday 10th September 2004

10.00 am-12.00 pm

International Community Centre 61b Mansfield Road, Nottingham

Please come along to this free presentation to hear from Bernado and consider the possible practical implications .

To confirm a place, or for further details please contact bob.diamond@nottshc.nhs.uk

0115 969 1300 Ext 40697

see also Manchester and London

Manchester
Bernardo Jiménez-Domínguez 
Centre for Urban Studies, University of Guadalajara, México
THE CRITICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF IGNACIO MARTIN-BARO
(the talk will be in English)  Manchester Metropolitan University, Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Hathersage Rd, Manchester.

Monday 13 September 2004

3.30 - 5.00

Room NTR

A special meeting organised by Manchester Metropolitan University's new Institute of Health and Social Change will enable colleagues to meet with Bernardo  who is visiting UK as a  British Psychological Society Visiting Fellow.

 

 

LANCASTER

The following conference is orientated to clinical psychologists.

DATE: 23rd SEPTEMBER 2004, 9:30 - 4:30

VENUE: GEORGE FOX LECTURE THEATRE, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

TOPICS WILL BE CROSS-SPECIALTY AND INCLUDE A COMMUNITY AND CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE ON;

WORKING WITH REFUGEES & ASYLUM SEEKERS
A BIRMINGHAM FAMILY WELL-BEING PROJECT
AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF A MENTAL HEALTH DAY SERVICE WALKING GROUP
WOMEN'S SELF-INJURY IN THE CONTEXT OF A LESBIAN OR BISEXUAL IDENTITY
>>>Programme details
Registration details fromk.thackeray@lancaster.ac.uk
 

London

University of East London 

School of Psychology

Critical social psychology, liberation psychology and the work of Ignacio Martín-Baró

Bernardo Jiménez-Domínguez 

Centre for Urban Studies, University of Guadalajara, México

Thursday 2 September 12.30-2.00pm

Room  GN 116 Arthur Edwards Building, Stratford Campus

Manchester


International Seminar
Mayreli Carreño Fernández
The Camilo Cienfuegos University of Matanzas, Cuba and BPS visiting Psychologist.
Community Psychology in Cuba

Date: Thursday May 20th Time: 3-5 
Manchester Metropolitan University, Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Hathersage Road, Manchester
link to MAP
Mayreli will talk about the development of community psychology in Cuba, its focus, key concepts and methods, and also talk about her own experience in a project with the Marina community in Matanzas. This session will be of interest to those working in community settings and those working with young people.

Further information from: Marilyn Barnett, Research Secretary, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Faculty Of Community Studies And Education, Research Institute For Health And Social Change, Department of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Hathersage
Road, Manchester M13 0JA

The talk is available on request. 

also of interst -     Community Psychology in Cuba from Prilleltensky and Nelson's new Community Psycholgy Text

 
 
Friday 2 April 2004, 2-4 pm Manchester Metropolitan University, Hathersage Road.
Dr Carolina de la Torre Molina:  University of Havana
British Psychological Society Visiting Fellow
Achievements, problems and challenges for psychology in Cuba.
A talk jointly organised by the BPS North West of England Branch and the Department of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Dra. De la Torre has been an active psychologist for more  than 30 years and has made important contributions to Cuban and Latin American Psychology.  In the last 15 years she has been working on the study of collective identities in Cuba.  She has contributed to the development of the Cuban Psychological Society and was until recently President  of this organization.  Her studies have been recognized and two of her books have received national prizes. 
This talk will be available shortly on this site.
Carolina de la Torre with Carolyn Kagan and Kath Knowles

The UK Community and Critical Psychology Conference - Birmingham -
September 11th and 12th 2003
Following on from the success of recent Conferences held in Sheffield and
Stirling (organised by the UK Community Psychology Network), the aim of
this conference is to bring together people from across the UK who are
interested in how professional Psychology as a cultural and social
institution can contribute to social justice.  The conference will focus
broadly on the overarching theme of the links between socio-economic
disadvantage and personal distress.
-- >> More information
 

Community and Organisational Psychology Research Group; International Seminar

urgent notice:---
WE REGRET THE FOLLOWING TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED AT SHORT NOTICE DUE TO AN ACCIDENT WHICH MEANS THE SPEAKER CANNOT TRAVEL TO THE UK

Date: Monday September 29th 2-4 Talk followed by discussion and evening meal.
Venue: Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University
Maria Henriqueta Camarotti, Co-ordinator Community Therapy Netowrk, Brasilia, Brasil
The Integrated Community Mental Health Movement in Brazil
More details                            Poster (.pdf)
 

Heather Gridley, a community psychologist from  Melbourne, Australia  visiting Britain in June 2003.
-> Dates and venues.
Heather coordinates one of Australia's two postgraduate programs in Community Psychology, at Victoria University in Melbourne. Her interest in community psychology stemmed from her work in community health, where she became aware of the limitations of interventions directed solely at individuals (Yes!).
She is currently involved in collaborative, community-based research projects on the promotion of wellness at individual, relational and community levels within the western metropolitan region of Melbourne, on sexual assault survivors' experiences of cervical screening, and on a peer health education program for women who are disabled.

Heather Gridley talks details:-

Cleaning up our white backyard: decolonising Australian psychology.  ->abstract
2 dates:-
a)  Manchester Metropolitan University
19 June 2003  1.00 - 2.30
Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Hathersage Rd.
For more details of the Manchester visit, please contact

b) University College London
23rd June 11:30-12:30, June 23rd 2003
         'All are welcome to join us for lunch after the talk.'
Room 451 Sub-department of Clinical Health Psychology
         University College London
         1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E
         (Goodge Street tube)
contact - Rebekah Pratt  Tel: 020 7679 1844

4 Friday April 25th 2003
Jorge Morio Flores Osorio
Director of Research, Autonomous University of the State of Morelos,
Cuernavaca, Mexico
Community Social Psychology in the aftermath of war,
civil strife and mass oppression: the case of Guatemala.
 Jorge Mario giving his talk at MMU

Manchester Metropolitan University
Friday April 25th 2.30

Maya indigenous communities in Guatemala suffered what has
been described as a programme of genocide at the hands of
the Guatemalan army in the 1980’s and early 90’s.

Jorge Mario Flores has been working in conjunction with an
interdisciplinary group on projects of community rebuilding,
memory and commemoration, and the pursuit of justice in the
face of impunity.  He uses frameworks from community social
psychology as well as other currents in the Latin American
liberatory  tradition to conceptualise and develop this work.

Thanks to Kath Knowles for translation.

George Albee (professor emeritus Vermont Univ)  -  a well known prevention psychologist from the United States of America gave several talks 2002  (Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Stirling)  on Prevention and the Social Origins of Mental Disorder and related questions.
BRINGING TOGETHER THEORY & PRACTICE
A Collaborative Community Psychology Event.   (Combining a UK Community Psychology Network and a Cambuslang Community Event)
Stirling:  Scotland,  Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd March 2002 full details
Mark Burton, Liberation Social Psychology - learning from Latin America   -  Community and Organisational Psychology Seminar,  27 Feb. 2002, Manchester Metropolitan University, Hathersage Rd., Manchester. More info on liberation social psychology.  read notes of talk (Word97) updated version posted 16/3/02

NEW fuller paper (pdf)  posted Oct 03

Carolyn Kagan's inaugural professorial lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University : 30 January 2002
Making the Road by Walking It... some possibilities for a community social psychology,
read the text on line!!
Isaac Prilleltensky 19  2002
Psychological and Political Well-being:  Dialectics and Directions
Workshop at MMU on Tuesday 19th March pm read prepub draft paper that covers this material
see below for Isaac's web pages

Other recent events:


5th European Congress of Community Psychology

Learning Communities, Empowering Organisations and Quality of Life in a Changing Society

September 16-19, 2004 at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany)
further information:-
a)  webpage       b)  Conference flyer       c) Information sheet


Events in America:
Mexico:  VII Congreso al encuentro de la psicología Méxicana y III  Congreso Latinoamericano de Alternativas en Psicología.
September 2004  Acapulco (México) http://amapsi.org/

Colombia:  Encuentro Internacional de psicología política,  October 2004  Barranquilla (Colombia.)

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