Seeking postdoctoral researchers for ERC project IDENTITY ERROR

Dear Colleagues
Please help connect people in your network with this ERC-funded postdoc opportunity in our department.

"The project will combine computational modelling and group-based experiments to scale individual models of epistemic vulnerability (i.e., belief in misinformation/conspiracy theories) to a social level."

Many thanks,

Mike
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The ERC-funded IDENTITY ERROR project is hiring 2 Postdoctoral Researchers (hosted in the Psychology Department in UL). The project will combine computational modelling and group-based experiments to scale individual models of epistemic vulnerability (i.e., belief in misinformation/conspiracy theories) to a social level. There is a computational post that will require some knowledge of network analysis and/or agent-based modelling, and a social psychology post that will require experience conducting behavioral experiments. We are a supportive group of interdisciplinary researchers, and we do not expect either postdoc to have full knowledge of these methods. We only expect a willingness to learn and a curious attitude. Further details on each post can be found at the links below. The closing dates for applications are October 28th (computational postdoc) and November 3rd (psychology postdoc). 

Each post is estimated to last for 3 years. Contact paul.maher AT ul.ie for enquires.

Computational post: https://my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheulrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=079248

Social Psychology post: https://my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheulrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=079308
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My source: Mike Quayle, Mike.Quayle AT UL.IE
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=simsoc
SIMSOC Digest - 15 Oct 2025 to 16 Oct 2025 (#2025-169)

'New' citation of Hodges' model - Kennedy (2019)

This morning an alert from ResearchGate brought news of a further not so new citation of Hodges' model:

Kennedy, Harry G. (2019). National Forensic Mental Health Service (NFMHS) Model of Care. 10.13140/RG.2.2.30103.59041.

I've extending thanks to Prof. Kennedy, and have added the details to the blog's bibliography (in the sidebar). It is not as if Hodges' model played a key role in service design (care architecture?), but it is nonetheless marvellous to achieve this visibility.

This does make me wonder if there are others?

Any further news welcome.

Sept 2022: 'An introduction to evidence-based health care'

Are you aged 16-18 years, based in the UK or Ireland, and interested in studying a #healthcare-related subject at university?

Sign up here https://t.co/f6gSMgRtYa for 'An introduction to evidence-based health care', a free webinar we're hosting alongside @CochraneIreland pic.twitter.com/r7Kj5MbVZO

— Cochrane UK (@CochraneUK) July 14, 2022

Students 16-18 years old.

School leavers

A career in health care

'Health Career' - 'Life Chances'

Digital Wellbeing Educators - Online Summit

Higher Education has been transformed in recent months in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as face-to-face teaching has been abruptly transformed into emergency remote teaching in virtual learning environments. For many, this has been a first-time experience, accelerating adoption of online education, often in a very agile way without the time and resources to allow for a carefully planned approach. Throughout this process students have also been compelled to change the way that they learn, and many may lack the competences required to fully participate in online education. 

More details and booking ...

See also:
http://www.digital-wellbeing.eu/

My source:
Dr Julie-Ann Sime
Centre for Technology-Enhanced Learning
Educational Research Department | Lancaster University

Developing a Palliative Care Model for People with Dementia in the Community c/o @PallC4Dementia

Challenge

People are living longer, which means that more of us will get age-related illnesses such as dementia. Dementia is caused by different diseases of the brain. These diseases affect the parts of the brain which are normally used for learning, memory and language. Although Dementia usually affects people as they get older, it’s not a normal part of ageing. Many people don’t realise that Dementia is a terminal illness. People may die from dementia, not just die with dementia. Palliative Care aims to improve the quality of life of people and their families who are facing an incurable, life-limiting illness, such as dementia. Palliative care involves actively looking for symptoms of any kind- physical, social, spiritual, or psychological - and providing excellent care to lessen these symptoms. People with dementia need palliative care just as much as people with cancer, but they often don’t get it.

Research Project (currently ongoing)

This project aims to improve the palliative care of people with dementia, and their families, by developing a “model”. This model aims to support people with dementia to live well at home in the community for as long as possible. The model will map out what services, assessments and treatments the person might need and where, so the health system can better organise their care. To develop a model that will work in Ireland, we must first learn what is already known about “good” palliative care for people with dementia. This mixed methods study will be carried out in several phases:

• We will conduct a review of the literature, to find all available research in this area. This will allow us to see what existing models and services are supported by research evidence.
• We will conduct a survey of healthcare workers and researchers to ask them two things. Firstly, what do they think an ideal model of dementia palliative care would look like? And secondly, what existing services providing dementia palliative care are there?

...

• ... Please visit the project's website for full details....

Phase 1: The research team designed a survey to i) identify existing models for dementia palliative care in Ireland and the UK, and ii) to identify key components of effective models. The survey is currently live on this website. The research team has also developed a protocol for a scoping review to guide their search of the literature for relevant research. The protocol is registered with PROSPERO ID: CRD42018091158, and the search is currently underway.

...

Follow us on Twitter

@PallC4Dementia | #PallCare4Dementia

For further information contact

Email: s.fox AT ucc.ie
Email: info AT aiihpc.org 

• ... Please visit the project's website for full details....

BREXIT: On the Border

individual

|

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

	Medicines, Medical products Time - Logistics
	"Border Delivery Group" import - export checks BREXIT DEAL :: NO DEAL REFERENDUM #2 ELECTION (crunch) Commons Vote (deferred)  ?

Source: Hughes, L. (2018) NHS faces risk of reduced drug access for six months, FT Weekend, 8-9 December, p.2.

Film: Sanctuary

CARDI conference Dublin 2011: Hodges' model - a poster element

Here is one element of the poster from last week's conference. This part is A3 in size and the linked preview below is to an archived copy on the Internet Archive. I will post the glocal version on W2tQ  in due course. As ever I wish I had more time to devote to producing such work. The symbol common to memory and giant global graph is intended to highlight a person's memory and the distributed 'memory' that is the Web. Such a representation can never capture all the subtleties involved, the overlaps, the contexts and perspectives.

The placement of some concepts is an invitation for reflection. For example, dementia and the use of anti-psychotic drugs also demands consideration of policy, liaison, primary-secondary-residential care interfaces, shared cared protocols, formal reviews, target behaviours, definitions of challenging behaviour, observation skills, clinical records, therapeutic interventions and the care environment ...  Some of the content, such as under Interpersonal Define 'safety', 'health'... seek to stress the same.

Acknowledgement:
Many thanks to the CARDI Committee for the opportunity to present, my employer Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust for study leave, and Prof. George Kernohan (Ulster.ac.uk) for assistance in supporting my attendance and in the production and printing of the poster. We plan to produce a paper based on the same.

CARDI conference ageing globally - ageing locally: Poster

The last poster I completed in June for the Health Literacy conference in Manchester was made up of four A4 pages. It was OK, but suffered next to the University produced presentations - maybe it was an imposter. So, I determined that the next would be a more professional A1 - A0 effort.

Thanks to George Kernohan - Prof. of Health Research in the Institute of Nursing Research at University of Ulster - next week's CARDI conference in Dublin will see this realised.

Nine A3 pages were produced in total (too many for insurance). The final 'composition' was not straight forward. George suggested Powerpoint and that clinched it after much aggravation. This will be easier next time! With a week to spare I forwarded the draft to George. As before I've tried to strike a balance between graphics and text. There are three diagrams of the model in total that hopefully capture some of the main conference themes:

Title, author details & acknowledgement

Introduction to Hodges' model with basic model graphic axes and domains

h2cm matrix including the 4P's and Global & Local aspects of ageing

h2cm matrix Glocal and notes, the future and bibliography

The overlap here is quite something: I believe that the 4,400 words on local, global and glocal now has some coherence and merit. The context for that 4K is community informatics. The poster has drawn on that draft and in turn a further paper on this theme but specifically addressing older adults, health care, nursing ... will take things further.

The conference is much more than the posters of course. There are some excellent sessions and speakers too. Apparently the poster has arrived across the Irish Sea and looks OK. The boarding passes are printed - Dublin next stop. I'll also find out what Guinness really tastes like and catch up with James Joyce on Friday.

International Conf. "Ageing Globally – Ageing Locally" Dublin Nov. 2011 & h2cm Poster

Today I'm really pleased to report news that h2cm will be presented as a poster at
"Ageing Globally – Ageing Locally".

I will use Hodges' model to explore the dimensions of the conference themes. More to follow ...

Acknowledgement: Thanks to Prof. George Kernohan, Ulster.ac.uk for bringing this event to my attention.
Related post:
Musings... on 'local', 'global' and 'glocal'

Hodges' model: subject of a session at Beyond These Walls - Public Engagement Colloquium

Hodges' model found a place in a session at:

Beyond These Walls - Public Engagement Colloquium
Faculty of Life and Health Sciences
22nd April 2010 at the Ross Park Hotel, Kells

Theoretical review of public engagement in Nursing: Abstract

by George Kernohan, Professor of Health Research Nursing, University of Ulster

Nursing & health professional have wide roles in care of people in need, in sickness and in health and in supporting their informal carers. These roles, by necessity involve people in various ways: in this paper Hodges Health Career Model (Jones, 2009) is used to provide a framework to underpin public engagement in nursing. The model provides a relatively simple way to think about and summarise the variety of engagement types. It comprises two lines and eight words which appear to provide a graph with two axes. The vertical axis involves the recipients of care: individuals and groups, the other involves the care provider and what they do: from mechanistic to humanistic.

The first quadrant [SCIENCES] deals with scientific response to individual signs and symptoms: where engagement aims to ensure that people comply with the healthcare intervention: engagement is about informing the patient and their informal carer about their physical needs and responses.

The second quadrant [POLITICAL] deals with mechanistic and group activity: for example political interventions to agree rules, policy and systems. Engagement here refers to members of groups working under a specific governance system or approach– activists and unions lobby for change, in this care domain. Arrangements for protection of vulnerable people are set through engagement here. Ethical issues guide the group mechanistic activities.

Thirdly [SOCIOLOGY], there are more humanistic aspects of care: speech, thought, narrative and free text: stories contribute to group actions. Here we have the social and cultural components to remind us that engagement must work in a social context.

The final domain [INTER-intraPERSONAL] emphasises the role of the individual in needing tailor-made care, requiring dignity and respect. Here lies a more holistic type of care and is more ‘mind’ than ‘body’ where interpersonal aspects of engagement are more person-centred.

Across all four care domains, public engagement is a key sustaining action to make the model meaningful but also to provide some reassurance that engagement although complex and varied, can be managed in a logical way to enhance care.

Jones, P. Hodges Health Career - Care Domains – Model. 2009.
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ accessed 25/03/2010 [1998-2015]

Chambers, R. Involving Patients and the Public. How to do it better. 2000. Radcliffe, Oxon

Related links:

Kernohan, G. Theoretical review of public engagement in Nursing. Proc 1^st Public Engagement Colloquium, Kells, Co Antrim, 22 April.

Hodges Model in Residential Care, Ireland

Claire Welford, Clinical Link Facilitator – Gerontology: a joint appointment between the National University of Ireland, Galway & The Nursing & Midwifery Planning Development Unit, HSE West - e-mailed me to say she is using Hodges' model.

It was great to hear this news. I put some questions to Claire as follows:

Q. What attracted you to Hodges model?

A. Its ability to address social needs.

Q. What are your objectives?

A. To prompt staff to address older people's social participation needs in long-stay residential care. To include all team members in care planning, including Health Care Assistants.

Q. How are you finding using the model - pros and cons (any surprises)?

A. No major problems yet. Some staff are struggling with new terminology. So many staff are used to Roper, Logan & Tierney, which I believe is not suitable for older person care.

Q. What feedback are you receiving from staff and students?

A. Staff as above. Students are interested and their Clinical Placement Co-ordinators have attended the educational sessions.

Q. Any comments from your colleagues?

A. User-Friendly. Succinct.

Q. Did you use any resources from the website, Brian's notes for example?

A. I didn't really use the notes, just used the general theory and went from there myself.

Q. Have you created any tools to help you, or do you feel there is something missing?

A. I have included assessment tools for nutrition, pressure sores, continence, manual handling and falls risk assessment.

Q. Would you be interested in doing a podcast interview, (if I can fully master the technical aspects)?

A. Happy to do a podcast. It would be great to see Hodges' model used more.

Q. Can you tell me about your role and work Claire?

A. For my role please see above, while my research interests include:

* Promoting quality care for older people.
* PhD work looking at autonomy in long-stay care of older people.
* Person-Centred Care.
* Action research/Qualitative methodologies.
* Currently a member of the Departments research cluster for older person research.

Claire also forwarded a publication on care planning in relation to the introduction of this model.

It sounds like Claire's use of Hodges model is at quite a high level, which supports the idea that the model is not prescriptive in terms of care philosophy or approach (note also the range of assessment tools). The way the model has been adopted also suggests it is quite accessible. Hodges' model is helping to extend the thinking and reflection of staff as they assess, plan and evaluate care in the residential setting.

For some people there may be a problem with Claire picking up the model and applying it in this way. Where is the evidence that the model is being used consistently? What about quality assurance? This brief Q&A sesssion prompts many more questions, that I hope we will have an opportunity to explore in the future.

On the other hand information literacy and knowledge management allied with the Web, are supposed to encourage the dissemination AND use of tools and resources. Given Claire's role and skills she has made a professional judgement, evaluated and appraised Hodges' model and found it of potential use and has set about testing her assumption. She is not doing this alone, but has Clinical Placement Co-ordinators on board. Quality assurance and detailed research do need to follow (this is why I created the website), but lack of this should not hamper progress.

Claire asked about keeping in touch - definitely - and thanks++ for sharing your work.

[For an introduction to Hodges model there is a 30 minute podcast.]