2022 DiMHN AGM
Jonathan Campbell, who leads the DiMHN’s Conference and Exhibition Workstream.
Reading from the Marketing and Editorial Workstream report, Lianne Knotts said: “Our engagement with stakeholders continues to grow year on year, supporting the charity’s objectives, and widening our reach.”
Conference and Exhibition Jonathan Campbell, who leads the DiMHN’s Conference and Exhibition Workstream, was next to present. He explained that the DiMHN’s 2022 Conference and Exhibition, held from 8-9 June at the Coventry Building Society Arena in Coventry, had been ‘extremely well attended’. In all, excluding exhibitor staff, 675 people had registered to visit the exhibition, with several ‘walk-ins’, a record number – at 51 – of exhibition stands, from 47 commercial organisations (of which 15 were DiMHN members, plus four supporting stands (including the DiMHN stand). The Workstream lead said: “In fact we have a bigger floorplan planned for 2023. Notably, as regards a couple of this year’s speakers, Sarah Hughes, the CEO of the Centre for Mental Health, has recently become the CEO at Mind, so we will be looking to secure her as a 2023 speaker, while Nick Smith of Missing Peace Wellness & Support, an expert-by- experience, was very well received by all attendees.”
Award-winners Jonathan Campbell’s report included a list of the award-winners in 12 categories at the 2022 Design in Mental Health Awards (see The Network, August 2022, for a full report), to whom he offered ‘massive congratulations’. Moving to 2023, he said the annual DiMHN conference and exhibition, again being held in Coventry, from 7-8 June, would be the tenth such event to date. He said: “The floorspace has been increased by 25%, and the Conference and Exhibition advisory group is currently reviewing the initial proposals for presentations. Just after Christmas, we will then be going out for award submissions.” Philip Ross proposed the report, and it was unanimously accepted.
Lived Experience Advisory Panel Alex Caruso next presented his report on behalf of the Lived Experience Advisory
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The International Issue, the latest in the DiMHN’s Design With People in Mind series of booklets, was launched at the 2022 conference and exhibition in June.
Panel. He said he had been delighted to get this new initiative up and running; its aim is to improve mental healthcare settings with the help of those who have experienced these environments. Alex Caruso elaborated: “We will be looking to form a group of people with lived experience who will act as facilitators and trainers to work with architects, designers, commissioners, and Estates teams, to improve the quality of mental health environments.” The LEAP lead said it was hoped the initiative would help ‘to address the differences and perceived distance between providers and service-users’. Early engagement with NHS, private, and charitable healthcare providers had confirmed a key interest in the initiative, and it was hoped to make more progress in the coming year. There being no questions, the report was proposed and unanimously carried.
Alex Caruso, who leads the new Lived Experience Advisory Panel, said he had been ‘delighted’ to get the new initiative up and running.
Research and Education Professor Paula Reavey, who leads the DiMHN’s Research & Education Workstream, was the next to detail her Workstream’s activities; she said it had been another very busy year, with a number of projects developed, and some developing still. She said: “For example, we have started The Greater Manchester project with NHS North Manchester Hospital, with a fully funded PhD student at London South Bank University working part time on the project for the next five years with Greater Manchester, looking at transitioning from the old hospital to the new, and design and mental health from a psychological perspective. Thanks go to Jonathan (Campbell), in particular, for setting us up with the link, because I think this work, under the DiMHN’s umbrella, will be really valuable.” Prof. Reavey said ‘another bit of good
news’ on the PhD student funding front was the LSBU and DiMHN match-funded studentship under way. She explained: “The idea here is to develop a project looking at design and mental health from a psychological perspective, but one that really fits with the DiMHN’s aims and objectives.” The Professor explained that she was in the process of working through the funding, with the intention being to have the student in place for September 2023. The student would also assist she and Professor Steve Brown, of Nottingham Trent University, with the production of the Design with People in Mind series of books delivered each year.
Funding bid for research on restrictive practices Professor Reavey also explained that she and Steve Brown had developed a funding bid, in conjunction with NAPICU (the National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units) ProCure23, DiMHN, LSBU, and NTU, as well as UCL, looking at restrictive practices and seclusion. She thanked Board members, Philip Ross,
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