This page lists know research and projects relating to disabled peoples' access to the health care professions. If you are aware of any other projects, would like to add to the page, or find any errors, please email David Wright.
This page is not listed in any particular order.
Deaf peoples' access to nursing project: http://jarmin.com/demos/resource/nurse/index.html
Contact: Naomi Sharples (n.sharples@salford.ac.uk)
School of Nursing, University of Salford.
Also see: http://www.nursing.salford.ac.uk/Programmes/deafaccess.php
The aim of the Deaf Access project is to create an educational environment that is accessible, supportive and effective for deaf people. This environment will enable deaf students to attain the qualification of RMN (Registered Mental Nurse). They should then progress to become employed in services, where they are valued for their professional skills.
Developing a Best Practice Guide in learning support for students with hidden disabilities undertaking professional practice placements
Web site at: http://www.hull.ac.uk/pedds/
Contact: Jane Wray, Project Manager (j.wray@hull.ac.uk).
Benedict Fell, Research Assistant (b.fell@hull.ac.uk)
School of Nursing, Social Work and Applied Health Studies, University of Hull.
Professional placements raise a number of critical questions for disability support since crucial dilemmas are exposed in relation to issues of confidentiality, capacity, competence to practice and public confidence and protection. This collaborative project will work in partnership with key stakeholders to develop an evidence based Best Practice guide for staff to promote effective and consistent support to meet the learning support needs of disabled students undertaking professional practice placements.
The project will focus upon social work students with hidden disabilities in the first instance but anticipate the guide to be of value to other disciplines that use practice placements as an integral part of professional training. For example, nursing, medicine and teaching. The research interviews will be carried out with students, Practice Teachers in social work agencies, Practice Co-ordinators in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) and Disability Support staff in HEIs.
The project is supported by national organisations including the SWAPltsn subject centre, the National Organisation of Practice Teachers (NOPT) and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). In addition the project will work with the Health sciences and Practice LTSN (LTSN) to promote wider dissemination of project experiences and outputs.
DIVERSE: The UK Veterinary Medicine Disability Project
Website at: http://www.medev.ac.uk/diverse/
Anne Tynan (atynan@rvc.ac.uk)
LIVE! Fellow
The Royal Veterinary College
Royal College Street
LONDON, NW1 OTU
Direct line – 07899 075605
DIVERSE is the largest project to be funded within the 2003-2005 HEFCE special funding programme: Improving provision for disabled students. 23 projects were awarded funding to develop and disseminate resources relating to the learning and teaching of disabled students.
All projects are expected to have a sector-wide impact; the DIVERSE project includes work reaching out to other professions including medicine and dentistry.
Also see the press release [Download here - Word document]: LIVE! the Centre for Excellence in Lifelong and Independent Veterinary Education, has just appointed the first Fellow to focus on disability issues within the Centre’s Fellowship programme.
The experiences of student nurses with dyslexia in clinical practice
Contact: David Morris (d.k.morris@apu.ac.uk) & Patricia Turnbull
School of Health Care Practice, Anglia Polytechnic University.
Commenced January 2003.
Method: Phenomenological approach utilising individual interviews.
The data collection should be completed by September (2003) and writing up of the study, hopefully complete by the end of the year.
Dyslexicon http://www.sbu.ac.uk/psycho/dyslexicon/
Contact: Christopher Sterling (sterlicm@sbu.ac.uk)
Division of Psychology
South Bank University
To develop a self-help programme for students with dyslexia in order to assist them in learning to read and spell problematic words such as specialist terms.
Although not health care specific this project may prove useful in helping healthcare students develop spelling of health terminology.
Successful student diversity (HEFCE 2002/48): http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2002/02%5F48/cases.htm#widen)
Case studies
23 examples from higher education institutions contributed to the guide and illustrates departmental strategies and practices to widen participation in higher education. One of the projects included healthcare professionals with disability, highlighting ways to provide support and adapt existing courses so that all students have a fair chance of succeeding.
Case study 20: Role of departmental disability tutor in meeting students’ needs. The University of Hull, Department of Psychology
Full paper: [ MS Word 80K | Zipped Word 22K | Adobe PDF 48K | Zipped PDF 37K ]
Incorporating Disability Equality in Clinical Practice: News release at: http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2002/disability.htm
See the Partners in Practice Project below.
Improving provision for pharmacy students with disabilities: http://www.ulsop.ac.uk/registry/disability-project.htm
Contact Joan Hartley, Disability Project Officer: joan.hartley@ulsop.ac.uk
Report on the project August 2004 By Joan Hartley, Disability Project Officer.
Improving Provision for Disabled Psychology Students http://ltsnpsy.york.ac.uk/ipdps/
IPDPS is a project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and is one of the National Disability Team's (NDT) Strand Two projects.
This project is a collaboration between the Universities of York, Middlesex, and Aston .
The IPDPS project aims to facilitate an improved learning experience for disabled students studying psychology at university, by providing evidence-based information and guidance to staff and potential and current students.
Partners in Practice Project: Disability Equality in Health Care: http://www.bris.ac.uk/pip/
Contact:
Margaret Byron, Project Director: margaret.byron@bristol.ac.uk
Caro Howell, Project Coordinator: caro.howell@bristol.ac.uk
Marcia Dring, Project Administrator: marcia.dring@bristol.ac.uk
Partners in Practice
39-41 St Michael's Hill
Bristol, BS2 8DZ
Tel: 0117 954 6537
Fax: 0117 954 6525
A three year collaboration between the University of Bristol, the University of the West of England and the Peninsula Medical School.
Partners in Practice will create a curriculum framework that embeds disability equality in healthcare education, thereby enabling future generations of doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists radiographers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other health and social care professionals to eliminate disability discrimination from clinical practice.
The project is about training healthcare workers, the majority of whom are non-disabled, to work more effectively with disabled people as patients and service users. However, raising awareness of disability equality within healthcare will also, hopefully, contribute to increasing the number of disabled people who become healthcare professionals.
AchieveAbility: http://www.achieveability.org.uk/
Contacts:
Project Manager
Katherine Hewlett
Tel: 020 7911 5000 ext 2910
Mobile: 077 6516 7483
Email: hewletk@westminster.ac.uk
Project Coordinator
Michelle Gammo-Felton
Tel: 020 7911 5000 ext 2908
Mobile: 078 6875 9433
Email: gammofm@westminster.ac.uk
Project Administrator
Velvet Kearley-Heywood
Tel: 020 7911 5000 ext 2910
Email: V.J.Kearley-Heywood@westminster.ac.uk
AchieveAbility
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS
A ground breaking Aimhigher national project, which aims to break down barriers to higher education for students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) Our purpose: To improve access to Higher Education for learners with SpLDs
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia
- Dyscalculia
by raising awareness of opportunities and support; leading to the achievement of Progression to Higher Education
- Qualifications
- Employment
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