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Cath Lake, Lianne Knotts, and Jonathan Campbell, who she said had been ‘really instrumental’ in establishing links with NHS Trusts, which could be a particular challenge for academics. Seven NHS Trusts had already expressed strong interest in this initiative, and the team was due to meet with representatives from Broadmoor and Pennine NHS a few days later. Prof. Reavey said it was hoped to submit a bid for around £1.5 m within the next six months for three years’ funded research that would directly feed into the aims and objectives of the DiMHN.
Booklet will focus on seclusion The Professor added: “Currently we are working on the next book – for the 2023 conference, Isobel Thomas has begun work on this as our research associate, which DiMHN is funding, and we are very much on course for producing this publication, which will focus on seclusion and restrictive practices. Lastly,” she continued, “at the last DiMHN ‘away day’, we decided it would be a good idea to think about developing a project to inform design decisions around seclusion and restrictive practices. I have presented a proposal to the Board for a small amount of funding to pay some research associates to help bring together experts-by-experience and designers to try to come up with what I call ‘Citizen Design’ – the idea that service-users will provide consultancy around how seclusion spaces should look, and what restrictive practices should or should not involve. We hope to roll out this project in 2023.” She concluded by thanking Prof. Steve Brown, without whom she said she could not have got much of this work done. She added that she had given a keynote speech at the Violence and Clinical Psychiatry Conference in Rotterdam in October; following it, a number of delegates had approached her and expressed interest in being involved. The report was then proposed and carried unanimously.
Marketing and Editorial Philip Ross explained that Lianne Knotts would give the Marketing and Editorial Workstream report, Cath Lake having sent her apologies. Reading from it, she said: “Our engagement with stakeholders continues to grow year on year, supporting the charity’s objectives and widening our reach. Our website now not only hosts the Network’s Design with People in Mind publications, but also includes a range of opinion and thought articles across varying topics. Thanks to those who have contributed over the last 12 months, and in particular Alan Murtagh at GMA for managing content, and DiMHN Associates, Karen Howell and Philip Ross for continued support. “Over the coming months we look
forward to publishing more valuable and interesting content, and welcome input from all members via blogs, news articles, or community discussion.” Lianne Knotts
THE NETWORK | FEBRUARY 2023
All of the award-winners on stage at in the Premier Lounge at the Coventry Building Society Arena following the presentation of Design in Mental Health 2022 Awards in 12 categories.
explained that the Workstream had included a couple of QR codes within its report – which had been used in some of the recent marketing material on the DiMHN stand at IHEEM’s Healthcare Estates 2022 event in Manchester in October. These invited all those with interesting / ‘challenging’ news or views to discuss to get in touch via social media, via the DiMHN website, or via email, with Cath Lake (cath@designinmentalhealth. org).
As noted in the 2021 AGM report, The Network magazine had now moved primarily to a ‘digital-only’ format, ‘in the DiMHN’s support of limiting the impact of climate change’. Lianne Knotts said, reading from the report: “The ‘digital-only’ publication includes enhanced content which we hope will evolve in future editions. We encourage anyone submitting an article or advertisement to The Network to include video content to enrich the publication and broaden its reach. The Network will continue to publish a hard- copy edition at the time of the annual conference, to be held next year from 7-8 June.”
Growing revenue form the official DiMHN magazine Revenue from The Network had continued to grow, with income up on 2021. The report said: “Thanks go to the Step Comms team, including Jonathan Baillie, Trevor Moon, and Nick Carpenter, for their continued hard work.” Any DiMHN members involved in the design, construction, operation, or use of any mental health settings are very welcome, and indeed are encouraged, to contact the Step Comms team with ideas for future articles.
Election results The AGM’s chair, Philip Ross, next turned to the election results and Board of Directors
for 2022-2023. He said: “Three directors – myself, Trudi Beswick, and Paula Reavey, retired by rotation this year, but all three of us stated that we wished to re-stand, and were re-appointed via a secret ballot.” Meanwhile, two directors had submitted their resignations due to workload and capacity – Alex Caruso and Garry Charlton. Dan Vesty had also tendered his resignation as Associate. Philip Ross thanked all three for their contributions. The Board had not – he explained – been able to seek new Directors from the wider membership in time, due to the resignations being received after the Director ‘recruitment window’, but would shortly be finalising the selection of Associates, following recent interviews. Philip Ross added: “From that, we will consider options for co-opting potential Associates onto the Board as a short-term measure, until the next year’s elections are able to be properly carried out.”
Thanks expressed Here the DiMHN Chair asked, under ‘Any Other Business’, whether there were any other questions or comments. There being none, he said this concluded the formal business of the AGM. However, he added that he wished to record his particular thanks to Jenny Gill and Joe Forster for their continued support as the DiMHN’s Chairs Emeriti, Jonathan Campbell as the DiMHN’s Vice-Chair, all the Network’s Board members for their ‘time and contributions in driving things forward’, and the Associates – a growing group of people who were being ‘more and more active’. He concluded: “A huge thank you to everybody we work with, including our partners, Step Exhibitions – who help us organise our annual conference and exhibition, and Step Communications – who publish our quarterly magazine, The Network.” With this, he declared the 2022 AGM closed.
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