National recognition for the 'Understanding the me in dementia' module
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It’s been two years since the launch of our 'Understanding the me in dementia' module. Being the first of its kind, completely coproduced and delivered with Experts by Experience, we look back on the journey so far.
Between January 2022 and September 2023, the ‘Understanding the me in dementia’ module was created by Danielle Jones, Clare Mason and 22 experts living with dementia.
It was successfully delivered to students for the first time in September 2023. Several experts by experience worked as co-tutors on the module.
The module team received national recognition, being nominated and shortlisted for a number of awards. In 2024, the module team were:
- Commended for their ‘outstanding contribution to teaching and learning excellence’ at the University of Bradford’s Outstanding Achievement Awards
- Finalists in the Dementia Care Awards 2024 in the ‘Living-well with dementia: Co-production and Partnership Award category
- Nominees for the Learning category at the National INSIGHT: Public Involvement Quality Recognition Awards 2024
- Nominees for the Times Higher Education Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community
It was an honour to have been nominated, and we would like to thank everyone again for making this work possible.
(Above contributors: Agnes Houston, Anne Marie Norris, Teresa Davies, Jacqui Bingham, Julie Hayden)
It is now the second year of teaching 'Understanding the me in dementia', the experts by experience group have worked alongside the module team to deliver the teaching for the module.
Allison Batchelor, Jacqui Bingham, Chris Maddocks, Martin Robertson and Michael Andrews took part in tutorial one, working alongside staff and students to explore media representations of dementia, and how they may fuel stigma against dementia.
For tutorial two, Allison Batchelor, Julie Hayden and Chris Maddocks spoke to students about the impact that language and labelling can have on people with dementia.
Allison Batchelor, Jacqui Bingham, Anne Marie Norris and Michael Andrew worked with the module tutors to assess students work.
(Above contributors: Danielle Jones, Clare Mason, Frances Issacs, Gail Gregory, Keith Oliver, Maqsood Quereshi)
Students have provided feedback for the module; scoring the module five out of five. The input of the experts by experience was also rated at five out of five.
Students suggested that the learning has had a positive impact on their care practice and that the involvement of the experts was “invaluable and thought provoking”.
(Above contributors: Michael Booth, Michael Andrews, Gerry King, Martin Robertson, Allison Batchelor, Chris Maddocks, Lorraine Dunn, Ronald Amanze)
We want to thank all the experts by experience for their continued involvement in this module.
We'll have an update about the module from Associate Professor Danielle Jones later this year!
In addition to the nominations and accolades, we are thrilled to share that a new paper has been published about the module in the Journal of Dementia Care: Read the paper Co-creating and Co-delivering Dementia Education at Bradford: Understanding the Me in Dementia.
Are you working with people living with dementia across health, social, or third sector services? You can take the module 'Understanding the me in dementia' as a single module, or as part of the MSc in Advanced Dementia Studies.
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