Informação Relevante | [Docentes] 8.ª Edição dos Projetos Semente da UC | 8th Edition of UC Seed Projects – Applications open from 26 October to 27 November

Caros Investigadores,
Caras Investigadoras,

A Universidade de Coimbra vai lançar a 8.ª Edição do concurso Projetos Semente de Investigação Interdisciplinar, financiado pela Fundação Santander Portugal.

As candidaturas estarão abertas de 26 de outubro a 27 de novembro de 2026.

O concurso destina-se a investigadores/as em início de carreira, até dez anos após a conclusão do doutoramento, que pretendam desenvolver projetos de investigação interdisciplinares e alinhados com as Áreas Estratégicas da UC, promovendo a independência científica, a colaboração entre diferentes áreas do conhecimento e o desenvolvimento de competências de liderança.

Nesta edição serão atribuídos cinco prémios, um por cada Área Estratégica da UC, no valor de 20 000 € por projeto, correspondendo a um financiamento total de 100 000 €.

À semelhança das edições anteriores, o concurso pretende incentivar a colaboração entre investigadores/as de diferentes áreas científicas. Cada equipa deverá integrar investigadores/as de pelo menos duas unidades de investigação distintas da Universidade de Coimbra.

Convidamos os/as investigadores/as elegíveis a conhecerem esta oportunidade e a explorarem a possibilidade de desenvolver uma proposta interdisciplinar com colegas de outras áreas.

A página da 8.ª edição, incluindo o regulamento, o modelo de candidatura e as restantes informações, estará disponível a partir de 26 de outubro, data de abertura do concurso, em: Projetos Semente da UC

Com os melhores cumprimentos,

João Ramalho-Santos
Vice-Reitor para a Investigação
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[EN]

Dear Researchers,

The University of Coimbra is launching the 8th Edition of the Seed Projects for Interdisciplinary Research, funded by Santander Portugal Foundation.

Applications will be open from 26 October to 27 November 2026.

The call is aimed at early-career researchers, within ten years of completing their PhD, who wish to develop interdisciplinary research projects aligned with UC’s Strategic Areas, fostering scientific independence, collaboration across different fields of knowledge, and research leadership.

This edition will support five projects, one in each of UC’s Strategic Areas, with €20,000 awarded to each winning project, for a total funding of €100,000.

As in previous editions, the call encourages collaboration between researchers from different scientific fields. Each team must include researchers from at least two different research units from distinct domains at the University of Coimbra.

We encourage eligible researchers to learn more about this opportunity and consider developing an interdisciplinary proposal together with colleagues from other areas.

The 8th Edition webpage, including the call rules, application template and further information, will be available from 26 October, when the call officially opens, at:

UC Seed Projects

Kind regards,

João Ramalho-Santos
Vice-Rector for Research
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Universidade de Coimbra • www.uc.pt
Com os melhores cumprimentos,

Marta Santos
(Pelo Secretariado)

Revisiting the G7 ... G20

'Under the Trump administration, the US is retreating from the global leadership role it has played since the end of the second world war. The world is bedevilled with challenges and there is a desperate need for stability and co-ordinated solutions to global problems. Where will the leadership to solve them come from? 

Some have argued that we are now in a "G zero" world in which no one is in charge. There is great uncertainty and the powerful dictate solutions to smaller players. Others say we are moving to a regional carve up - a G3 where the US. Russia and China have spheres of influence in a modern day version of the Three Emperors League. 

Some version of a new multi-polar order may yet take shape. But it also seems clear that a G minus one world is starting to fill the vacuum in some domains — with countries coming together to find solutions to global problems without the US.' p.11.

 

Individual

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      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

imaginary - *You cast your vote and get the  global leadership we all deserve. ...	- numbers
... Discuss.	G20 G7 G-0? Goto*

My source: 

Minouche Shafik, How to live in a G minus one world, Opinion, FTWeekend. 26-27 July 2025, p.11.

https://www.ft.com/content/7b884f20-e44e-4afe-9c0c-0c602f76b3f6

Previously: 'G7'

Politicians! Please leave it to the Public ...

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HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

'Kick' - a verb, more often it seems, a noun.	Health and Social Care?
Gent kicking a can Wall poster/photo Corfu Town	... to kick the can down the road!

The Nursing and Midwifery Council: Independent culture review - Reflection, accountability and action

Individual

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      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES                   

HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

Title: 'Registered Nurse' ... Professionalism Reflection	Theory - Practice - Governance [gap*] PROCESSES ACTION
Community of Practice Role models Models of  Care - Across all care contexts

c/o Twi/X

*always trying to bridge ...

Social Care: in the round and square c/o King's Fund

Simon Bottery's Long Read -

What’s your problem, social care? The eight key areas for reform

- and listed below, have been mapped to Hodges' model. The full article and comments are well worth reading and may help readers discern the relationships between the key areas identified.

1. Means testing: it’s not like the NHS 
2. Catastrophic costs: selling homes to pay for care 
3. Unmet need: people going without the care and support they need 
4. Quality of care: 15-minute care visits and neglect 
5. Workforce pay and conditions: underpaid, overworked staff 
6. Market fragility: care home companies going out of business 
7. Disjointed care: delayed transfers of care and lack of integration with health 
8. The postcode lottery: unwarranted variation in access and performance

I have associated each with the respective knowledge (care) domain in which they are placed:

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

1. Parity of Esteem in Means Testing 2. (Catastrophic) Cost to me, anxiety, depression, stress 3. Unmet need (mental health, counselling ...) 4. Quality of Care (Mental Health, Well-Being..) 5. Workforce (values, person-centred, self-esteem, job-well-done, BE the Difference?) 6. Market fragility (attractiveness as career pathway, having a leader) 7. Disjointed care (number of carers, lived experience...) 8. Postcode (I thought this had been addressed?) (postcode? - a remote 'thing' outside through the window and (summer) garden]

1. Parity of Esteem in Means Testing 2. (Catastrophic) Cost to NHS - innovation, change, prevention, transformation 3. Unmet need (physical, access ...) 4. Quality of Care (Time, Logistics) 5. Workforce (tasks, scheduling, physically reasonable?) 6. Market fragility (scale, bed occupancy, local demographics...) 7. Disjointed care (geography, transfers, A&E admissions...) 8. Postcode ('literally') North, West, East, South, Regions, London, Urban, Rural ...

1. What is your Parity across 2. (Catastrophic) Cost to my family. 3. Unmet need (socialising, access, carer ..) 4. Quality of Care (Relationships, Belonging, Communication, Family Groups..) 5. Workforce (job satisfaction, status, social worth ..) 6. Market fragility (Public perception, marketing, negativity bias - local news, time for outreach, intergenerational engagement...) 7. Disjointed care (input of family, local provisions, self-funding - budgets...) 8. Postcode (pre-social care, pre-lottery?)

Means (let's Test that.) here too?  2. (Catastrophic) Cost to the State? 3. Unmet need (my choices, informal carer ...)  4. Quality of Care (Value for £, Measures, Inspection, safety..) 5. Workforce (pay and conditions, minimum wage?, Unions, contracts, training, BREXIT ..) 6. Market fragility (FUNDING settlements, estate, investment, staff turnover, Qualified staff, commercial history, profit, governance..) 7. Disjointed care (commissioning, ...) 8. Postcode (local policy, funding, protocols ..)

Patient-centred + Treatment = Self Care Week

This week 18-24th November is Self Care Week

Hodges' model might tend to have us equate 'self care' with the humanistic half of the model. As Self Care Week begins I could not help but suggest on twitter that what self care means to me is 4-fold care (or 5-fold taking in the spiritual also).

Then, continuing to read Kinchin more on threshold concepts, care and caring:

"In the case of 'caring' within the clinical sciences (e.g. Clouder, 2005), the concept may link the salient points of the personal perspective (patient-centred discourse) with the biomedical (treatment) discourse (Figure 32).

Here 'care' is seen to occupy the space that links caring as a therapeutic intervention (to the left) and caring as the nurse-patient interpersonal relationship (to the right), as described by Morse et al. (1990). This positioning enables the carer and the patient to be active partners in linking the chains of clinical practice with the networks of understanding that relate to the patient's wider needs. The key factor within this model is the 'care' that includes consultation with the patient and carer that allows them to relate the two halves of the model - something that is required for learner agency (Kinchin & Wilkinson, 2016)." p.90.

The halves referred to in Figure 32 are those within Hodges' model, merely switched left-right. I will add a photograph soon.

Self care must encompass ALL of Hodges' model.

INDIVIDUAL

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INTER-PERSONAL : SCIENCES

HUMANISTIC -------------------------------------------------- MECHANISTIC

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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GROUP

The patient (questions) Capacity, Motivation, Ability - Knowledge and Skills to Self Care	Medical science Clinical medicine
Carers	Consultation Choices, Engagement

Clouder, L. (2005) Caring as a ‘threshold concept’: transforming students in higher education into health(care) professionals, Teaching in Higher Education, 10:4,505-517,DOI: 10.1080/13562510500239141

Kinchin, I. M., & Wilkinson, I. (2016) A single-case study of carer agency. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 6, 34–45.

Morse, J.M., Solberg, S.M., Neander, W.L., Bottorff, J.L., Johnson, J.L. (1990) Concepts of caring and caring as a concept. Advances in Nursing Science. Sep;13(1):1-14.

Kinchin, I.M. (2016) Visualising Powerful Knowledge to Develop the Expert Student: A Knowledge Structures Perspective on Teaching and Learning at University, Rotterdam: Sense Publishing. p.90.

Book: "Somebody I Used to Know"

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

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

Somebody I Used to Know

My source: Neville, S. (2018) 'Can I go on?' FT Weekend, Life & Arts, Books, p.9.

Wellcome Collection: Handle with Care

Health care is complex
because
care delivery
involves the
handling
of a variety of forms of
knowledge, information and data. 

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ---------------- ...WHAT IT MEANS ... ------------------ mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

to be cared for	to be caring
to care	to be a carer

The handling becomes specialised 

because of those

be's

the 'patient', the 'nurse', the 'carer'...

identities

loved, lost, earned and learned ...

The integration of all this 

can be summarised as so many forms of 'why'

often described as the spiritual -

Let us handle the Planet With Care.

Planning tool for Early Onset Dementia - Mapped to Hodges' model

 This post is prompted by a tweet:

Please re-Tweet this #stillmylife planning tool for early stage #Alzheimers and other forms of #dementia from the incomparable @3SpiritUKNZ! #wellness #wellbeing #aging #geriatrics pic.twitter.com/lHd6hj1Wkh

— Ian Kremer (@LEAD_Coalition) January 27, 2018

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

Self-knowledge of symptoms - Learn about my condition Learn and stimulate the brain Use lists, what I am doing, what interests me music, places, work-experiences ... Consider interventions, record in my biography Feel safe, confront fears and anxieties What does 'well-being' look like for me Positive thoughts, dreams, aspirations Use Mental Capacity for Future Planning	- and signs  Seek environments that support me; avoid those that drain or inhibit me Use technology to create biography (Research into diagnostic journey) Take control - strategies on nutrition and health
Share biography with loved ones, friends. Tell them how they can help -  Ensure (assure) future needs are/will be met as I would like them (Hey!) I can still contribute to society so ..	- consider getting help e.g. Dementia Advisors (Guidelines for health services, esp. primary care, GP, family physicians) Mental Capacity Act, Power of Attorney, Advanced Decision Making Yes: to occupation, earning or volunteering

Apologies in advance, as the formatting may be disrupted on some devices so two lines may not scan across the care domains as intended.

As you can see this brief 'sketch' of #StillMyLife shows that the emphasis of this planning tool is well-placed. This also highlights what I have referred to as 'holistic bandwidth'. There are many claims regarding the centredness of various things, for example; student education and learning, health and nursing care, government and the way business is conducted. In this instance, the question of what is the conceptual, disciplinary and professional extent of a tool, approach, theory or practice. Is its claimed philosophical, ethical, social or other objective fully deserved? Is it person-centred, or task centred? Does it deal with the political dimensions of significance to an individual with a disabling health condition as it claims?

n.b. Note the boxes and the absence of ticks.

Top 4 Branding Tips: "Between MIND and BODY lies the soup"

HODGES' SOUP

Full of holistic & integrated goodness

Colouring agents & agency guaranteed

Quality Additives Assured QAA™ 

INDIVIDUAL

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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POPULATION

You would like some soup. Yes. We should start here. [For as the ancients recognised: "In-between MIND and BODY lies the soup."] As we can (and do) debate exactly 'where' and 'when' action begins. Do you know you're hungry? Do you know you want soup? Do you know where it is? Did you buy some three days ago? If you don't, do know how to make this happen? Can you ask someone for help if needed? Do you know where the kitchen is? Is your kitchen, one that you can walk in (also known as your's),  or is it one of those "off-limits" designs (see below right)? Like many of the things we take for granted Soup IS Knowledge

There you are! In the kitchen. You are aok opening the can, carton. Home-made excellent! [And the bread! Wo!] Can you reach for and open things? Grip, twisting it is quite an operation - fingers, hands, wrists, balance. We don't want you to spin around do we? Most have a opener of some sort, maybe a drawer or a rack full. Perhaps something to sit - perch on would help? Can you read the instructions? tiny print and poor eyesight What about Imperial and Metric? Take care with that can? Safety first, cooker, gas...? Are you up to date with Tetanus jabs? Where's the plasters? 1st Aid Kit. "Is there a Dr in the house! :-/ " Quick - grab the ice!

How does the soup taste? Taste? Yes it is  subjective ... but... Are you on a big hike? If so, it's the best soup you ever had? Attitudes to food inc. soup are laid here. Somehow it tastes better in company.  Like its constituents soup is best crowdsourced. Here is the place and down the agees  that the crowd (family-friends) together with home-made are ingredients made for each other. Ah! They're here. My Carer = company + soup ... How much time don't we spend on a communal meal. An event in itself. Thanks Stan your soup was delicious!

Whether a kitchen, outside oven, or camp fire this place is a powerful place. Assessment for Personal Independence Payments Powerful too are foodbanks and soup kitchens. Oh dear. Yet another new carer = lost time 'dear' indeed. Stop! Are those vegetables ok? What's the BBE - Expiry? So much food goes to waste - tragic. Is there an Occupational Therapist in the team? What about a Physio, or do we have to refer on? Who controls the labelling on this product anyway? "Kitchen - Catering STAFF ONLY"

Framing a Life Animated

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group-population

(mental) Life	Animated
communication  meaning singing  dialogue family friends relationships	documentary activism awareness

My source: Whitworth, D. (2016)  The autistic boy whose life was unlocked by Disney, Arts, The Times, 13 December. p.8-9.

‘Brain training’ app may improve memory and daily functioning in schizophrenia

Cambridge Advanced Training Programme
Credit: Peak

A ‘brain training’ iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the University of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at work and living independently, according to research published today. ... [3 August 2015].


My source: 
FT Weekend Magazine, 15/16 August 2015, p.41.

P( l ) AY: Spot the difference?

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group

Nurses get 1% pay rise MPs should get 10% pay rise, says regulator	NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA)

BBC Radio 4: World At One 5 June 2015 clip Mark Field: "Many of my constituents wonder how it is that any MP could live on £70,000 a year"

Yahoo Finance: Sky News - UK Wage Growth Jumps To 2.7%

Definitions of: 'independent', 'upwards', 'downward', 'vocation'.

Source: link - The Guardian, and various media.

1 in 3 will be older adults by 2025 in Japan

In June Dr Mayumi Hayashi described Japan's vision of 'total care' for its older population in HSJ. The article that prompts this post follows another with lessons for England.

Referring to a "2025 vision" this forward thinking has its roots in established systems of healthcare set up in 1961 and social care established in 2000 (p.25).

Care integration is not new as a fundamental issue in health and social care. It is for me a career legacy issue. As a student nurse it was discussed and debated, closely allied with multidisciplinary and holistic (joined up physical and mental health) care. Even now 37 years later it will drive many arguments and policy deliberations in the run up to the next election here.

Many nations are faced with stark demographics. As the population ages and works its way through wooden blocks, Rubik cubes, it is the population pyramid that takes on increasing significance.


Dr Hayashi lists the need for inclusion, integration and continuation of four components that are essential to the realisation of this vision:

• maximising the integration of healthcare and social care;
• promoting policies for prevention and outreach together with safeguarding;
• embedding supported living programmes and dementia friendly community initiatives; and
• addressing “late life specific” housing needs.

I have mapped these to Hodges' model below:

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

embedding supported living programmes and dementia friendly community initiatives	integration of health and social care
"late life specific" housing needs (integration of health and social care)	promoting policies for prevention and outreach, together with safeguarding

It becomes clear to see in Japan, China and other nations how telecare and smart homes have a role to play. Getting the basics of integrated care resolved firstly is the prerequisite whatever the culture.

Where achieved the integration of health and social care can act as a diagonal brace as it straddles two care domains. Perhaps the model also reflects the ongoing challenges of parity in esteem in mental health care and physical care; and the funding ambiguity for people living with dementia as opposed to other medical conditions?

In January 2014 the FT Weekend magazine also featured an article on ageing in Japan.

Hayashi, M. (2014) Japan's vision of a 'total care' future looks bright, Health Service Journal, 124, 6404, 25-27. 

FT magazine cover image:
https://www.facebook.com/financialtimes/photos/a.10150157857040750.297340.8860325749/10152119294570750/?type=1

Self-determination: individual - group (high-low) resolution

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

	Border Binary Decision
magnanimity

Image sources:
"Flag of Scotland (Union Jack colours and proportion)" via Wikimedia Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg

So many gardens: Press Release [ now ]

It had to happen. Twice over.

The irony that just as so many homes with older people living in them have gardens that are in a state of neglect, so too do many nursing and care homes.

Of course this is a sign in those domestics homes of reduced abilities.

In the residential care and nursing homes, garden neglect is reassuring.

A $ure sign that the love and spending is on the blooms inside?

Zero, One, Fifteen, (Thirty, Sixty...?)

SOCIETY

care-S S-cares

context: UK news media 15 minute carer visits to elderly clients

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual

Reflecting on Social Care with Hodges' model

The one, self, me, a person. Carers: ethics (and common sense? when is 15 minutes of 'fame' enough?), demonstration of rapport, empathy, dignity, loneliness, independence. Carer stress. Job satisfaction. Staff knowledge and skills. Observation. Mental state. Mood. Choices - personal preferences. Personal - carer's values. Cognition - Re-cognition. Case review. Individualized care? Expressed concerns (wither...?)

theory: task vs. person-centered care mechanistic aspects of care, travel, geography, arrival, tasks, plan, recording, constraints - esp. time, practical problems encountered. Number of carers involved. Safety. Protective clothing. Seasonal factors. Evidence base? Best practice? Relapse rates? Telecare role? Physical mobility - movement. Systems, processes, logistics and scheduling. Degrees of freedom - flexibility. Data, information, datasets. Admissions - depth of data?

practice: task vs. person-centered care Caring relationship building, trust - very personal - intimate care, subjective: time with someone I like / don't like? Relatives experience. Social care infrastructure - community centers. Ability to go out shopping with a carer. Media: BBC 2 Newsnight 7/10/13; The Times; C4 News. Social contact. Social mores (time?)

Policy, professionalism, recording, outcome measures. Agreement - care plan. Care reviews. Ban on 15 minute visits? Management. Standards. Supervision. Zero hour contracts. Pay and conditions. Staff turnover. Vulnerable adults. Personal development, training. Risk of organization's reputations being damaged. Corporate responsibility, values. 'Value for money'. New commissioning systems. Advocacy (position significant). Whistleblowing. 'Francis effect' increase in nursing posts. HSJ, 25 Oct 2013, p.6. 'Funded establishment'.

group - population

Discount the contract, you can then 'discount' the individual worker and the client.

Care Relationship = Care Transaction

Wikipedia: "15 minutes of fame"

A New Dynamic of Ageing: The NDA Programme & Age UK research showcase of the decade

London, The Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Greater London N1 0QH

You’ll know that the UK population is ageing. You’ll know that there is significant work to be done to be better prepared for ageing in our society. So it’s crucial that all of us who work in and for later life use latest evidence on ageing to support those preparations. The New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) Programme and Age UK are proud to provide a unique opportunity to present that evidence at our joint event, held on Monday 21 October, at the stylish Business Design Centre, Islington, London.

This is the ageing research showcase of the decade, presenting the most comprehensive selection of state-of-the-art ageing research ever seen in the UK. This includes active ageing, quality of life, independence, dignity, money, work, environments, participation and connectivity to name a few. Throughout the day, you can hear from high profile speakers, pick up latest knowledge through our themed sessions, interact with exhibits in our innovative marketplace and meet the researchers. It will also be your chance to network with a wide range of colleagues from the public, private and charity sectors.

http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/showcase.html

Hope to see you there! PJ

Watch this caring space: Workshop - Robots 4 independence

The KT-EQUAL initiative has another event scheduled for later this month, another workshop on the application of technology to improve the quality of life of older people and their carers. Please find the call copied below. The workshop I attended in September and reported on here was very enjoyable and a great source of information and inspiration.

The topic for the 24th November paradoxically sends me back to The Which Computer Shows at the NEC in Birmingham which I used to attend with my father. In the late 80s and 90s the pace of change was clear to see. The topic for the 24th November is Robots and of course they are already everywhere, but the combination of:

• demographic change - ageing population(s)
• hence need to focus the skills and knowledge of the care workforce
• emerging and refinement of safety and quality standards
• design and innovation
• the rise of 'single households'
• mobile comms and ubiquitous computing
• the expectations of the baby-boomer generation (and those who follow!)
• lessons learned through early telecare(?)
• and much more besides

- means that change isn't just on the cards, it's in neural nets, speech synthesis and the programme for this event. So as they say watch this space - it will change and move! Here is a marvellous opportunity to find out what is really happening in this field ....

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Robots supporting personal independence and rehabilitation

This workshop organised with the University of Hertfordshire will present and discuss the role of technology in the rehabilitation of older people and children, including some of the latest developments in the use of 'robotic' technologies. The perspectives of research scientists, clinicians and users will be explored through presentations, videos and breakout sessions.
Hosted by: University of Hertfordshire
Sponsored by: KT-EQUAL
Event organisers:
Dr Farshid Amirabdollahian, University of Hertfordshire
Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire
Professor Gail Mountain, KT-EQUAL Director
Verity Smith KT-EQUAL Coordinator
Date: 24 November 2009

Venue: The Comet Hotel (Ramada Hatfield Hotel)
St. Albans Road West
Hatfield, AL10 9RH
Hertfordshire
United Kingdom

This workshop aims to stimulate debate among key stakeholders regarding the nature of assistive technologies developed using the latest developments in robotic technologies.
It will include presentations from experts working across the spectrum of development, from basic technology to neuroscience.
The workshop will be of interest to a wide range of practitioners and policy makers, health and social care practitioners, employers, charitable and government bodies concerned with the needs of older and disabled people, as well as researchers and academics from engineering, biological, social science, medical and health care disciplines especially those who are interested in looking forward to a time when radically new technologies will be available. Older people are especially welcome at this workshop.
There is no charge for attendance just an enthusiasm and interest in extending the quality of life through informed user-focused research and its application. Registration is essential. To book a place, please refer to the registration page.