Healthier Communities
The Centre has won £250,000 of funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to conduct a scoping exercise looking at the barriers and enablers to provision of free online public health education resources by UK Universities (PHORUS).
PHORUS is a consortium lead by the Health Education Academy and comprises the Royal Society for Public Health as well as several institutional faculties and departments that teach public health across various disciplines, including health professions education, hospitality, exercise health, management and psychology.
The programme is being undertaken by academics from the School of Services Management and the School of Health and Social Care and the Higher Education Academy Health Sciences Subject Centre.
Lead: Dr. Ann Hemingway
RN, BEd (Hons), PhD
Dr. Heather Hartwell
BSc, PGCE, PG Cert, PhD, FHEA
The ‘Digging for Health’ blog is an online record of the development of a social enterprise project initiated by Francis Biley and supported by UnLtd Engage and Age Concern, Dorchester, UK.
Having been allocated a community allotment, which was very overgrown and run down, the project aims to return it to being a fully functioning and productive resource, not only producing vegetables but also raising social capital. We are going to engage with volunteers, primarily men, who will probably be in later life, and are perhaps retired, and who may have a wish to become more involved in community life. Why older men? Well, when men retire, or move house, there is the chance that they lose contact with friends and acquaintances. They may not have the opportunity to engage in allotment activities. They may benefit from light exercise as part of recovery from any one of a range of illnesses. This project will give the opportunity to these men to meet up with others and engage in meaningful, productive, social and physical activity. The ‘Digging for Health’ Training Day takes place on the 28 March 2011.
Lead: Dr. Francis Biley
RN, BN, MSc, PhD
