News and Views

Suresearch members are involved in many research, education and creative activities and organisations in the Midlands and nationally. This area provides members with an opportunity to share news and views on mental health issues. Contributions can be emailed direct to Suresearch, or you can use our Contact Us page. Views expressed are those of the individual contributors unless otherwise stated. Images may have been selected by the contributor or our editorial team.

Music Care Training

Music Care Training

[Originally posted on 11 October 2017] In November 2017, a Canadian team from Room 217 <https://www.room217.ca/> will be bringing their highly popular Music Care Training to the UK, in partnership with the University of Nottingham’s continuing professional...

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Using Creative Resources in Healthcare

Using Creative Resources in Healthcare

[Originally posted - 24 September 2017] The use of creative resources/creative practice in healthcare, including poetry and the arts has been demonstrated as having a beneficial effect for many people, helping them not just to recover from the effects of illness, but...

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Brainstorm music sessions

Brainstorm music sessions

[Originally posted on 1 November 2017] Brainstorm is an open mic session that meets at the Spotted Dog pub in Digbeth, Birmingham, on the third Wednesday of each month. The session is open to anyone, but it was started by mental health service users and people working...

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Peter Sedgwick : A Marxist Bibliography

Peter Sedgwick : A Marxist Bibliography

Conference on Sedgwick’s relevance for Radical Mental Health Movements in 2015, Liverpool Hope University. A bibliography of Sedgwick’s writing on Psychology and Psychiatry was given at the above conference. Following the conference, I continued to work on a...

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Depression Isn’t Fair

Depression Isn’t Fair

We have just posted a short piece of writing by Barbara Norden on depression – Depression Isn’t Fair – on the Creative Writing page in Creative Resources. We would like to publish other members’ creative writing on aspects of mental health on the website....

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