Panels.docx

Panels/Workshops/Presentations

-(2016) Discussion Panel member post screening of God Knows Where I Am at Illuminate Mental Health Stream, Cork Film Festival, 19 November 2016.
Sapouna, L., Brosnan, L. & O'Donnell, A. (2016) Storytelling An Act Of Resistance Or A Commodity? Critical Perspectives on and beyond Activism and Acts Of Resistance... Brookfield Health Sciences Building, University College Cork 9 November 2016.
-(2016) Respecting our Will and Preferences? Service users' Concerns and Expectations re the Assisted Decision Making Act 2015 at Perspectives for the Professionals: The role of the family in promoting Recovery, A joint College of Psychiatrists of Ireland & SHINE 1 day conference, 14th October 2016, Harbour Hotel, Galway.
-(2016) Mad Studies and Survivor Research. Panel celebrating launch of Searching for a Rose Garden at Lancaster Disability Studies Conference, Mad Studies Stream. 7 September 2016.
-(2016) The Politics of a Survivor Identity. Plenary Address at Inaugural UK Mental Disability Law Conference. Law and Social Sciences Building, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus, Nottingham NG7 2RD. 30 June 2016.
-(2015) Mad Studies: An Alternative Learning and Reflective Space Critical Perspectives on and beyond the therapy industry. Brookfield Health Sciences Building, University College Cork 12 November 2015.
-(2015) VOICES: Voices Of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination – An innovative methodology to inform law reform on legal capacity. Current Irish Research in Disability: Irish Disability Studies Association. Research Seminar in UCD 9 October 2015.
-(2015) Voices from the Margin. Mental Health Law Conference 2015. Áras na Laoi, University College Cork. 25 April 2015
-(2014) 'Recovery Experts by Experience, Human Rights in Mental Health and Ireland's Legal Capacity Reform Coalition.', in Engelli Bireylerin Hukuki Ehliyete sahip Olması adına İşbirliği: İrlanda Deneyimi, Istanbul, Turkey, 7th November 2014, EU_PERSON Project.
-(2014) Mental Health Service-User Involvement: Issues Professionals Need to Hear About. SLaM Occupational Therapy Annual Professional Development Conference, 'New Frontiers and Innovations'. The ORTUS Maudsley Learning Centre, Maudsley Hospital, London. 6th November 2014.
-(2014) Introducing the 'Power Cube' Conceptual Framework to Mental Health Service-User Involvement: Explicating the inherent tensions, inequities and power dynamics. BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference 2014 Wednesday 10th – Friday 12th September 2014 at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
-(2014) 'Research as Praxis: Practical considerations illustrated by empirical examples ', in Constructing evidence of innovative practices in health and social care: Critical Prespective International summer school, Ionniana, Greece, 9 July 2014, Co-organised by Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I. of Epirus) and University College Cork, 9 July 2014.
-(2014) ''Research as Praxis: Context for User-led and user involvement in Mental Health Research and Practice'', in Constructing evidence of innovative practices in health and social care: Critical Perspectives International summer school, Ionniana, Greece, 7-10 July 2014, Co-organised by Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I. of Epirus) and University College Cork. 8 July 2014.
-(2014) '"We need to be careful about the questions we are asking": Critical Enquiry and Research' at ISS21 Disability and Mental Health Working Group in University College Cork, May 23 2014.
-(2013) 'Service-User Involvement in Irish Mental Health Services: The Inherent Tensions, Inequities and Power Dynamics', Meanings of Madness: Critical and Creative Perspectives. A Conference Organised By The Catherine Mcauley School Of Nursing And Midwifery, The School Of Applied Social Studies, In Association With The Critical Voices Network Ireland, 14 November 2013, University College Cork, Ireland.
-(2013) 'Madness as Defined by Einstein! Service-User Involvement in Ireland Workshop', in Meanings of Madness: Critical and Creative Perspectives. A Conference Organised By The Catherine Mcauley School Of Nursing And Midwifery, The School Of Applied Social Studies, In Association With The Critical Voices Network Ireland, 13 November 2013, University College Cork, Ireland.
-(2011) Can Mental Health Service-user Involvement Really Influence the Power And Privilege Of Psychiatry?', in Critical Issues in Irish Society Network presents Ireland in Crisis? Health in Crisis, Room F308 Newman Building Belfield UCD, 29 April 2011.
-(2011) 'Storming The Ramparts Or Mining Under The Moat? Can Mental Health Service User Involvement Really Influence The Bastions Of Power And Privilege Of Psychiatry?', in 38th SAI Annual Conference, University College Cork, 6th. – 8th. May 2011.
-(2011) 'Lunatics Running the Asylum? Can Mental Health Service-user Involvement Really Influence the Power And Privilege Of Psychiatry?', in 5th Annual International Conference on Sociology, Athens, Greece, 9-12 May 2011.
-(2011) Poster on PhD Research Ireland Through a Social Sciences Lens: Celebrating four years of the Irish Social Sciences Platform, Ground Floor, Iontas Building, NUI Maynooth, North Campus Monday, 5th September, 2011.
-(2010) 'User Involvement: Praxis versus Rhetoric: Challenges for Mental Health Policy', in ISSP Third Annual Conference The Social Sciences in an Age of Uncertainty: Knowledge, Innovation, Society & Space University of Limerick, 2-3 December 2010.
Brosnan, L., Sapouna , L. and Fitzgibbon, N. (2010) ''Tell it Like it is': Service User Involvement in Social Work Education: The Experience from University College Cork ', in Critical Positions On And Beyond Recovery: The Dr Michael Corry Memorial Conference, University College Cork, 10/11 November 2010.
Brosnan, L., Sapouna , L. and Fitzgibbon, N. (2010) ''Tell it Like it is': Service user involvement in social work education- The experience from University College Cork', in Changing Health 2010: Acting and Reacting, Challenges for Social Work Theory and Practice. 6th International Conference on Social Work and Mental Health, O'Reilly Hall, UCD, Dublin, 28 June-2 July 2010.
-(2010) 'Why We Need To Learn Legalese: Human Rights Based Approach and the Principle of Mental Health Service User Involvement.' in Global PhD & Researchers Colloquium on Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway, 26-27April 2010.
-(2010) 'Pathways: Reflections on Emancipatory Research Methodology in Practice in Ireland', in British Sociology Association Annual Conference 'Inequalities & Social Justice', Caledonian University, Glasgow, 7-9 April 2010.
-(2010) 'ESTEP: Empowering and Equipping Residents in a High Security Forensic Environment with Peer Mentoring Skills on Computers', in Lifelong Learning and Empowerment in Mental Health, International Conference, Ministry of Defence, Paris, France, 11th & 12th February 2010.
-(2010) 'Methodology and Ethics of Research with 'Vulnerable' People', in ISSP/ ISKS Knowledge Transfer Seminar series University of Limerick, March 16 2010
-(2009) 'Problematising Partnership With Mental Health Service Users: From 'Buzzword' To Meaningful Reality', in British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 41ST Annual Conference in Manchester.4/09/2009.
-(2009) 'User Involvement; Lessons from the Literature'', in 'Recovery Beyond Psychiatric Care' organised by Dept of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork and Altering Images, CROWE (Community, Recovery, Ownership, Wellbeing, Empowerment), University College Cork, 8/05/2009.
-(2008) 'Pathways Research Project: Experiences of Mental Health Services from a User-led Perspective: A Model For Participatory Action Research'', in Postgraduate Student Conference, Sociological Association of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, 8 November 2008.
-(2007) 'Service User Perspectives in Research', 'Making a Difference; Mental Health Act 2001', First Annual Conference of Mental Health Commission, 8-9th November 2007, Radisson Airport Hotel, Dublin.
Brosnan, L., McDaid, S., and Maguire, L, (2007) 'Partnership and Participation', Health4Life Conference 'Thinking, Feeling Being: Critical Perspectives and Creative Engagement in Psychosocial Health', in the School of Nursing, DCU, 10-12 September 2007.
-(2007) 'Partners in Words or Deeds' Health4Life Conference 'Thinking, Feeling Being: Critical Perspectives and Creative Engagement in Psychosocial Health', in the School of Nursing, DCU, 10-12 September.
-(2007) 'What Part of the Picture? Perspectives of Service Users and Carers on Partnerships within Mental health Services', Sharing Best Practice in Nursing conference organized by NUIG and NMPDU in HSE, Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill Galway. 15th Feb 2007.
-(2007) 'What Part of the Picture? Perspectives of Service Users and Carers on Partnerships within Mental health Services.' Loughrea/ Athenry Mental Health Services Team Away Day, Gullanes Hotel, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, 13th March 2007.
-(2007) 'What Part of the Picture? Perspectives of Service Users and Carers on Partnerships within Mental health Services', Academic Psychiatry Meeting, Dept of Psychiatry UCHG 23rd January 2007.
-(2006) 'Signposts and Potholes on Recovery Route; Reported First Hand Experiences of Service Users and Carers', Mental Health Innovations Forum, Conference on Mental Health Recovery, 27th April 2006 University College Cork.
-(2006) 'Recovery and Partnership', Schizophrenia Ireland 15th Biennial Conference 'The Recovery Journey' 10th – 11th November 2006, Radisson SAS Hotel Athlone.
-(2005) 'Pathways: a Mental Health Service User-led Research Project in Ireland', Per Un'Europa Senza Manicomi; European Congress of Democratic Psychiatry, 10-12 November 2005, BIT (Bureau international de travail) Turin, Italy.