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*UPDATE* November 4th 2014
Thanks to all who attended last nights Workshop 2 in Brighton and thanks to CUPP Brighton for hosting us! We had a very productive evening in which we agreed some very good next steps. A follow up post will go out here on the blog in the next few days with the specifics, but in brief we agreed an overarching research question, and four sub-questions. We identified 4 potential projects who would be keen to participate in the research project that will start to test the impact of:

  • Discovery: where Patients participate in research and enquiry about their own conditions and the conditions of others
  • Technology: where Patients use existing and emerging technologies and social media to promote collaboration between themselves and others
  • Space and spatiality: where Patients build and design spaces and places that promote the flow of life, removing walls and barriers that prevent our ability to communicate with each other
  • Research and Evaluation: where Patients work together to evaluate our success and failures in the co-production of health and wellness

Everyone is a Patient. 

*UPDATE* September 5th 2014 
Date for workshop 2 launched - November 3rd in Brighton



*UPDATE* July 7th 2014

Notes from the follow up meeting are available below. Look out for the date of our next workshop. We will be inviting people involved with innovative projects to join us. To explore what they are doing that is unique and special and how we can capture and share that as part of the Hospital University living research community. Keep an eye out for dates, please email us at hospitaluni@gmail.com if you want to join the mailing list or join the co-operative. 

The meeting was held as a follow up to the Roundtable event held on May 23rd and to explore next steps.

In attendance were:
Jessie Cunnett (Hospital University Co-op)
Dave Wolff (CUPP Brighton)
Gilian Bendelow (Professor of Social Science Brighton University)
Sarah Andersen (FutureHealth)

Apologies were received from:
Mike Neary (Hospital University Co-op)
Jane McGrath (Hospital University Co-op)

  • The report of the Roundtable Event has been well received. Copy available here Hospital University Roundtable event report
  • Next steps discussed as something practical and tangible.
  • A call out for projects that would like to be associated/affiliated with Hospital University with CUPP offering to support a meeting with them to look at how we might: Identify unique features of their projects against some evaluation criteria, explore what evaluation criteria might be and how information could be gathered/written up etc..
  • CUPP agreed to support the next steps in the form of venues, refreshments and admin etc.
  • Gillian Bendelow keen to be involved and agreed to explore a £5k grant from Wellcome Trust to support the setting up of a website and social media platform.
  • Health Unlocked have offered to set up a Hospital University on-line community  – Jessie to pursue.
  • Next steps to agree a date, time, venue and invitees for a Hospital University small projects workshop as above.


*UPDATE* June 19th 2014

Roundtable Event Report from May 23rd 2014 in Brighton
Hospital University are pleased to make available the report from our recent Roundtable discussion. Many thanks to all those who took part and particular thanks to CUPP Brighton for hosting us.

A copy of the report is available at the following link. 

Roundtable Event Report May 23rd 2014


You will see from the report that there is an invitation for you to join the Hospital University Co-operative. To do this, all you need to do is make contact in the first instance to express your interest. Joining the co-operative is then an easy process and an invitation will be sent to you. If you are interested in joining Hospital University please reply to this email or send an email direct to: hospitaluni@gmail.com to register your interest. 

If you are not sure about joining the co-operative but are interested to be kept updated on progress or attend future events please let us know you are interested and we will add you to the mailing list.

If you have any questions, queries or just want more information please do get in touch. You can email hospitaluni@gmail.com or get in touch via Twitter @hospitaluni

Please feel free to share this report with others who you think may find it interesting. You can find out more about our work at our blogsite http://hospitaluniversity.blogspot.co.uk 

All the best, from the Hospital University Team


Jessie Cunnett, Jane McGrath and Mike Neary


*UPDATE* May 21st 2014

Brighton Roundtable Event this Friday - Fully Booked

What are we up to??

  • The workshop will scope out the very practical issues involved in realising this necessary project.
  • The workshop expresses the importance of the power of ideas.
  • The workshop knows ideas are generated through the power of our collective critical intelligence.
  • The aim of the Hospital University workshop is to feel the rhythm of our pulse!
  • The workshop will also mark the launch of the Hospital University Co-operative

The roundtable workshop is a peer learning event where the particpants are both teachers and learners. 

We have invited a range of people to gather and have 28 people confirmed. A few more than we expected due to interest (got to be good!). We have identified for this first discussion people who we admire in a personal or professional capacity. No one has been invited due to their job role, title or position, but everyone has been invited in the spirit of introducing different perspectives.

Our hope is that the discussions will explore a shared ambition for the future of a healthy society. The roundtable workshop is a space for dialogue not monologue. All friends are invited to engage in the spirit of constructive challenge and inquiry, disagreement breeds progress. 

We hope the roundtable will mark an important moment that really brings Hospital University to life.

Look out for tweets @hospitaluni

*UPDATE* March 12th 2014

We are delighted to say we have a date for our first roundtable discussion which will be taking place on Friday May 23rd,

Not only that but we are thrilled to announce that Brighton Community University Partnership CUPP is hosting it @cuppbrighton http://cuppcop.ning.com

Keep a look our for who will be joining the discussion as we will post confirmed attendees over the next few weeks.

If you want to keep updated please follow us on Twitter @hospitaluni or revisit our blogspot page when you have the time, energy and inclination. 

Bye for now …


Hospital University: Meeting (2) Notes February 13th 2014 at Pizza Express, Victoria Street. London.

Present

Jessie Cunnett

Jane McGrath

Mike Neary


Following initial circulation of the Hospital University blogspot via twitter and direct email through personal and professional networks, feedback has been positive with genuine interest and appetite for some tangible next steps and for clarity of what impact Hospital University could make.


The following actions were agreed:


·  To continue to circulate Hospital University and share thinking

·  To be open

·  To develop and grow the Hospital University community through communication and dialogue

·  To establish a date in early May to hold a round table discussion to test the thinking with a wider audience

·  To invite 20 people to attend bringing a range of perspectives

·  To inform invitations ensure that greater importance is placed on willingness to contribute, interest and perspective than on role, title or position

·  To hold the round table across an afternoon and evening with an opportunity to socialise afterwards

·  To hold the round table in the Brighton area

·  To approach Brighton Community University Partnership (CUPP) to see if they would be willing to ‘host’ the round table

·  To establish the Hospital University Co-operative as a legal entity and open the membership as soon as possible

·  To seek funding opportunities to support the establishment of the Hospital University small projects research community

·  To publish these notes on the blogspot

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