ASBO | PSPO Where do we draw the line? BBC Radio 4 Moral Maze

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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Moral maze...	"Public Space Protection -
"Anti-Social Behaviour -	...Order"!

Link: BBC Radio 4 Moral Maze - Social Convention

Mental Life and Death in Squares*

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Mental  health

"Approximately half of all deaths in or following police custody involve detainees with some form of mental health problem. The IPCC is keen to get a better insight into the issues concerning mental health and custody. A key way in which individuals with mental disorder may have contact with the police is when they are in a public place and are believed to be in need of ‘immediate care and control. ... " Please see: IPCC

'cost to ...'

Deaths in police custody

BBC: Custody deaths represent failure...

*or rectangular cells.

Doyle, M., Jones, P. (2013). Hodges’ Health Career Model and its role and potential application in forensic mental health nursing. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 20, 7, 631-640.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2012.01961.x/abstract

Conference: Design as Caring in an Urban World - Final Call for Papers

Design as caring in an urban world: Royal Geographical Conference, London, Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 August 2014

In his essay, “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”, Heidegger considers the interrelationships between care and design by arguing that we are only capable of building well when we know how to dwell, that is, cultivating attachments to our environments and, through this cultivation, giving and receiving care. Recent work in areas such as urban and cultural geographies, and science and technology studies, has further elaborated on this connection between care and design by exploring the affective and relational work that goes into shaping and repairing the fragile attachments between the human and non-human materials that compose the urban world. At the same time, the materiality of urban environments is often found to be inattentive to human difference and diversity, and rarely shaped by, or exposed to, a caring design ethic.

In this session, we seek to bring concepts and practices of care and design into a closer dialogue with one another in order to develop new ways of thinking about the (co) production of urban environments. It is our belief that now, more than ever, a rethinking is required about the relationships between urban design and care, as issues such as sustainability and inclusivity ask for modes of designing and dwelling that convey the affective and relational sensibilities and values of caring.

We are interested in stimulating an exchange of ideas and inspirations between urban design and care by engaging with the ways in which caring skills and sensibilities can become expressed through design practice and thinking, and also the ways in which caring knowledge can be a resource for reconfiguring urban spaces. The questions explored in the session include, but are not limited to, the following:

• How is caring embedded and expressed in daily encounters between people and urban environments, including buildings, spaces and technologies?
• What kinds of skills and values of urban design do these encounters cultivate and what can be done to make public and support these?
• How can an ethics and politics of care and caring be instilled into the design of places and what does a caring design ethic refer to and entail for practice?
• What are the pedagogic and practical challenges in creating caring design values and practices?
• How could an ethics and politics of care be mobilised as a form of constructive critique of current urban design discourses where the sensibilities and values of care have often received less attention?

Session convenors: Charlotte Bates, Rob Imrie, and Kim Kullman

Please send a proposed abstract of 200-300 words to Charlotte Bates (c.bates AT gold.ac.uk) or Kim Kullman (k.kullman AT gold.ac.uk) by February 19th 2014.

ESRC PhD North West Doctoral Training Centre (NWDTC) CASE Studentships 2014: The spatial and social dynamics of public inclusion for people with dementia & Masters HI Sweden

The Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University offers an exciting opportunity for an ESRC funded +3 collaborative studentship for PhD research: The spatial and social dynamics of public inclusion for people with dementia

Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply for this fully-funded three-year PhD CASE studentship which is a collaboration between the Centre for Ageing Research, at Lancaster University, and AgeUK Lancashire. The studentship covers full fees plus a Basic Maintenance Grant (£14,421 p.a.). The student will receive a small contribution for research costs.

The CASE studentship will draw on innovative participatory mixed methods to assess the impact of a range of dementia friendly community initiatives to explore how people with dementia experience social and spatial inclusion, across personal and public spaces. The research offers an opportunity to engage with important policy initiatives and how they impact upon people’s lives. The successful applicant will also benefit from the work placement opportunity within AgeUK Lancashire.

The studentship will be supervised by a team lead by Dr Katherine Froggatt and Professor Christine Milligan at Lancaster University and Mrs Diane Armstrong, Dementia Support Coordinator at AgeUK Lancashire.

Eligible candidates will be UK/EU honours graduate students with a good 2.1 from a recognised University, who show evidence of exceptional ability; they must have completed research methods training as part of an ESRC recognised Masters (or demonstrate research training to an equivalent standard) in a relevant health and social sciences discipline. Students who are currently undertaking a Masters degree (or equivalent) and are expecting to graduate during the 2013-14 academic session are also eligible to apply. Candidates should demonstrate a committed interest and experience in the field of dementia ageing research, preferably in community contexts.

Candidates must satisfy the ESRC's academic and residential eligibility requirements and be UK or EU citizens who have been resident in the UK for three years. Further information on eligibility can be downloaded from the ESRC web site: ...
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To apply please submit the following documents electronically, by 5.00pm Thursday February 13th 2014, to Dr Katherine Froggatt: k.froggatt AT lancaster.ac.uk with ‘ESRC CASE studentship’ in the subject line:

• An up-to-date CV: including two named referees (one of whom should be your most recent academic tutor/supervisor); the applicant will be expected to have approached their referees to arrange for references (including anticipated grade if Masters is ongoing) in advance of shortlisting.
• A letter of application (not exceeding 2 pages) outlining your suitability for the CASE studentship and how you would anticipate approaching the research.
• A copy of your first degree and Master’s degree transcripts.

Shortlisted candidates should be available for interview on February 21^st 2014

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Every incredible view...

The Shard, London, UK

Every incredible view, whether achieved 

by natural, artificial or conceptual means
relies upon a structure, a framework.

Image source: The view from The Shard

Spaces that Speak*: Theatrum Mundi / The Global Street

Even as I search for extraterrestrials we are creatures of space.

The Agora in
400 BCE

Womb, swaddling clothes, crib, play pen, 'home', garden, neighbourhood, community, village, town, city...

Here on W2tQ cognitive and conceptual space is the focus. Hodges' model provides a space for individual or group reflection. In addition to providing a conceptual space the model can represent our physical spaces, our social spaces - incorporating the various means of denoting relationships be that social network, family - genogram, or community group.

As a unit of 'civilization' there should be civic spaces in villages, towns and cities.  This is frequently not a 'civil' space as might be envisaged in the political sense. In contemplating the health of the individual we must also see the group, the citizens and ultimately the global community. If in future individual's must assume greater responsibility for their health, through which space will that responsibility be communicated? Will the channel of choice be the 2nd, or 3rd household TV, the PC-laptop screen; smart phone or merely the Parliamentary debate?

Where is 'public space', where can women and children meet in safety, where can free speech be voiced, be heard? If the presence and stability of public space is not an indicator of 'public health' what is it? What is the impact of policy? When cars are removed from an inner town and the area pedestrianised does a public space follow - the people as they walk by(e)? Can philosophy break out of the public houses and into other public spaces?

The following initiative is centered upon only three cities Frankfurt, London and New York, but will hopefully provide some insights:

Theatrum Mundi / The Global Street 

- is a new urban forum. It seeks to understand what brings life to a city, particularly in its public places and asks how these might be better designed. It brings architects and town planners together with performing and visual artists to reimagine the public spaces of twenty-first century cities.

 
*and listen.

My source: Heathcote, E., Design. A breath of fresh air for public spaces. FT Weekend 27-28 October 2012. 4-5.

Former link image source: http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/grk201/GRK201.Agora.400.html

Smoke gets in your eyes, hair, socks and underwear....

July 1 2007 England: at last smoke free indoor public spaces!

I don't smoke. Hate cigarettes, but not people who smoke.

I've seen cigarettes used to control patients in the past and seen the effects on people when if the supply of cigarettes was not 'managed' then major problems ensued.

Both patients, staff and nicotine were well and truly locked in an institutionalised embrace. This relationship was strongest in the old mental health institutions on the long-stay (or 'rehab' wards).

I used to arrive home from work and ALL my clothes absolutely reeked of cigs. Into the shower. Nausea as the water ran over my hair.

As I prepare to return to work in the community: on home visits if someone goes to light up, I beg their pardon and acknowledge that I am a guest in their home - but could they please possibly hold-on a while. This isn't just a strategy to shorten visits. The first lesson of first aid is DO NOT become the next casualty. I also take the role of health promotion seriously. When people put the smokes away, I thank them on leaving highlighting the great favour granted to me. In summer and sometimes winter - their addiction helps me to help them - an excuse for us to venture outside to have a walk: ecotherapy! If people value your input, most do not mind. They also remember for next time - so social skills are employed. If needed though in the car I have a jacket just for the 'smoky visits'.

Cigarettes have been the cause of so many problems on wards resulting in aggressive behaviour.

Before I start sounding holier-than-thou - one of the worst instances was an elderly gentleman on a then 'psycho-geriatric' ward who with no smokes was livid. He wielded his zimmer walking frame at staff. We sorted the problem, calmed him down and no one was hurt; but the distress caused to this gentleman and many others over decades....

IF there is a benefit to be associated with cigarettes it's teaching the art of anticipating a person's needs and differentiating between the person and their behaviour.

An organic, naturally occurring pesticide must be bad for you and that's just one of the poisons in a cigarette (a regular chemical factory).

There is an established body of research on the links and effects between mental health, specific diagnostic groups and smoking. As for summer 2007 looking at the grey skies over the UK at present, many people WILL struggle. You have to wonder how referrals to all mental health services (primary and secondary care) will run over the next 12 months (next spring!) and how well we can monitor the effects?

Source: Nicotine molecule image (permission sought): Ron Perry and Sarah Frisken

P.S. To what extent have cigarettes affected human genetic development?