Welcome to the International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference 2020. Between Tuesday 15th September and Friday 25th September we will be running episodes that will feature evening panel discussions supplemented by presentations from each contributor that will be available to watch beforehand.
Episode 8 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 23 September 2020] was on the theme of ‘Promoting population mental health' and featured four panellists:
Lai Chan is a dual qualified registered nurse with extensive clinical experience of working in acute wards and community settings. Prior to coming into higher education, she was a Team Coordinator of a local community mental health team establishing collaborative working between community, acute and primary care for clients with severe and enduring mental health problems creating joint care pathways and promoting wellbeing. Lai’s current role is the Associate Head in the Nurse Education department embraces both teaching, monitoring quality of programmes and curriculum developer.
Specific teaching is on: clinical risk, mental health, cognitive behaviour therapy, clinical supervision, and academic supervisor to postgraduate dissertation. External work includes an OSCE examiner for Liverpool University, an external examiner and reviewer to various higher Education. Lai continues to be involved with practice at different levels, honorary therapist (2010- 2015), commissioned to act as a clinical supervisor for a local hospice (2017 to present date).
Steve McCarthy-Grunwald is Senior Lecturer and Pathway Lead for Mental Health Nursing at the University of Cumbria. He has been a registered mental health nurse since 1999, and a qualified healthcare educator since 2014. His focused clinical experiences were within older persons services as a dementia specialist advanced practitioner. His current endeavours include embarking on his PhD Thesis which is looking toward the essence of humour and its impact on our psychological wellbeing.
Dr Peggy Mulongo is a lecturer in mental health nursing at the University of Bolton and a visiting lecturer at the University of Salford and the University of Manchester. The presenter is also a Cross- cultural Mental Health Practitioner, a Human Rights Campaigner and a Consultant with over 15 years’ experience of working with migrant populations.
Her interests are in qualitative research, and during the past 11 years she has managed a number of projects focusing on therapeutic interventions with migrant women and CYP and published several papers. She is a co-founded member of New Step for African Communities (NESTAC) charity, a refugee community organisation.
Charlotte Pearce is a university lecturer in mental health nursing at the University of Cumbria. Charlotte has worked in clinical acute setting of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and has a specific interests in the adolescent brain and brain development. Having recently become a qualified Instructor for Mental Health First Aid England she is on a mission to offer training to University staff on MHFA. Charlotte has also been involved as a co-organiser in developing the annual Festival of Mental Health, with a message that in building mentally healthy communities we can all thrive and reach our potential.
The #MHNR2020 presenters are: Nicky Lambert, Vanessa Garrity, Ben Hannigan & Mick McKeown.
Some Twitter links to follow presenters and guests are:
SMG - https://twitter.com/77McG
CP - https://twitter.com/MindHealthCPea1
NL - https://twitter.com/niadla
VG - https://twitter.com/VanessaRNMH
BH - https://twitter.com/benhannigan
MM - https://twitter.com/mickmckeown2016
Credits:
Presenters: Nicky Lambert, Vanessa Garrity & Ben Hannigan
Panellists: Lai Chan, Steve McCarthy-Grunwald, Dr Peggy Mulongo & Charlotte Pearce
Theme music: Tony Gillam Production & Editing: Dave Munday (https://twitter.com/davidamunday)
