Epiphany Storytelling as a means of reinforcing and embedding transformational therapeutic change

Recently the mental health field has seen a groundswell of interest in user perspectives as a crucial element of enlightened research, training and service enhancement. Despite a stated commitment to user empowerment and collaboration, due to a range of ethical concerns there has been relatively little research into the phenomenological, micro-momentary experience of those on the receiving end of therapy. We have failed to mine the rich experience of clients, particularly members of social minority groups. This paper aims to address this gap by shedding light on the intricacies of the therapeutic relationship; the alchemy between a particular professional and client that can lead to profound and transformational change. The paper highlights the somatic-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions to such encounters or “turning points”, their autobiographical significance and how these dimensions can usefully be encapsulated and explored within the concept of “epiphany”

Improving young people’s health and wellbeing through a school health research network: reflections on school-researcher engagement at the national level

The School Health Research Network is a policy-practice-research partnership established in Wales in 2013. The Network aims to: provide health and wellbeing data for national, regional and local stakeholders, including schools; co-produce school-based health improvement research for Wales; and build capacity for evidence-informed practice in the school health community. School-focused engagement activities include providing member schools with bespoke Student Health and Wellbeing Reports, hosting school health webinars, producing school-friendly research briefings, and holding annual events for schools. The Network’s model for co-producing research with schools is described and its impacts on schools is explored. These include more efficient recruitment of schools to research projects, school involvement in intervention development, schools beginning to embed evidence-informed practice by using their Reports and other Network resources, and securing funding to evaluate innovative health and wellbeing practices identified by schools. Drawing on the Trans-disciplinary Action Research (TDAR) literature, the article reflects on how TDAR principles have underpinned Network progress. The concept of reciprocity in the co-production literature and its relevance to engagement with schools is also explored, along with the Network’s contribution to our understanding of how we can build sustainable co-production at large scale in order to generate national level action and benefit

Genomic signatures of heterokaryosis in the oomycete pathogen Bremia lactucae.

Lettuce downy mildew caused by Bremia lactucae is the most important disease of lettuce globally. This oomycete is highly variable and rapidly overcomes resistance genes and fungicides. The use of multiple read types results in a high-quality, near-chromosome-scale, consensus assembly. Flow cytometry plus resequencing of 30 field isolates, 37 sexual offspring, and 19 asexual derivatives from single multinucleate sporangia demonstrates a high incidence of heterokaryosis in B. lactucae. Heterokaryosis has phenotypic consequences on fitness that may include an increased sporulation rate and qualitative differences in virulence. Therefore, selection should be considered as acting on a population of nuclei within coenocytic mycelia. This provides evolutionary flexibility to the pathogen enabling rapid adaptation to different repertoires of host resistance genes and other challenges. The advantages of asexual persistence of heterokaryons may have been one of the drivers of selection that resulted in the loss of uninucleate zoospores in multiple downy mildews

Appendix D Theory of Change for the 2018-19 evaluation

Forms appendix D of the South East London Teaching Partnership Evaluation Report - June 2018 (also in this depository)

South East London Teaching Partnership Evaluation Report June 2018

This evaluation report considers the principal activities of the South East London Teaching Partnership between 2016 and 2018. It identifies the Teaching Consultant programme, the approach to placement provision, the roll-out of the Intervision (intercollegial) reflection practice model and the Academics into Practice programme as activities that have worked particularly well

Appendix C List of Sources for Evaluation

Appendix C of the South East London Teaching Partnership Evaluation Report - June 2018 (also in this depository)

Appendix A CPD Qualitative Evaluation Report

This evaluation report, which is included as Appendix A of the South East London Teaching Partnership (SELTP) Evaluation Report - June 2018 (also in this depository) aimed to provide an in-depth picture of the reactions to, learning from, and experiences of applying their learning in practice from a sample of social workers and managers who had attended four of the courses and programmes developed by the SELTP

Appendix B Teaching Consultant Research

This report, written by Mark Taylor, in 2017, forms Appendix B of the South East London Teaching Partnership Evaluation Report - June 2018 (also in the repository). It investigates the experiences of social workers who teach social work students in the classroom

Acoustic characterization of gadoid larval aggregations in Galician waters (NW Spain)

Based on previous knowledge on the use of acoustics to assess hake larvae, a study was conducted in the Galician shelf (NW Spain) during winter (February-March 2012). An echosounder operating with 18, 38, 70, 120 and 200 kHz split-beam, hull-mounted transducers was employed. We analyzed the acoustic records in order to describe vertical and horizontal distribution patterns of fish larvae aggregations (mainly of the gadoid species blue whiting Micromesisitius poutassou and European hake Merluccius merluccius). Net sampling revealed that acoustic back-scattered energy at 38 and 70 kHz was roughly proportional to the density of Micromesistius poutassou larvae of 3.5mm and larger, while scattering due to zooplankton appear to be negligible at those frequencies. The results described herein suggest that echo-sounding data may provide a viable methodology for the study of spatial and temporal changes and trends in abundance of gadoid larvae, in particular blue whiting. In addition, the characterization of fish larvae aggregation will allow the mapping of their distribution by the analysis of previous acoustic databases