The Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health (CEIMH) is involved in a range of local, national and international events and projects that bring together diverse perspectives on mental health, combined with promoting innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

Learn about the events CEIMH and its project partners are involved in:

5th Survivor Arts Exhibition 2010/11 Open Day

Date: Sunday 19 June 2011 (11.00 - 4.00)
Venue: 7th Floor, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham

By showcasing the diverse creativity and ability of survivor artists, this exhibition hopes to engage, challenge and inspire.

Admission FREE.  Further details, contact: Dawn River, 0121 414 2936, d.h.river@bham.ac.uk.

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Authenticity to Action 'Rhetoric or Reality' Critical Perspectives on Service User and Carer Involvement in Education for Health and Social Care

Date: Wednesday 22 June 2011
Venue: Westleigh Conference Centre, Lea Road, Preston

This exciting one day conference focuses on the involvement of health and social care service users and carers in higher education. The theme of the conference is to examine critically the depth and sphere of involvement and to explore the impact that service users and carers have made to the quality of scholarly and strategic activity within universities. 

Further details and how to book (opens in new window)

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Searching for a Rose Garden. Fostering Real Alternatives to Psychiatry

Date: 2 & 3 September 2011
Venue:  Berlin

This conference is the highlight of the event series "Survivor Control: The Rights and Self-Help Opportunities of People with Psychiatric Experience", organised by the Berlin Association for Protection Against Psychiatric Violence this year.

Searching for a Rose Garden will introduce and explore alternatives to psychiatry that build upon survivors' knowledge.  These are approaches developed in close collaboration with people who have direct experience of extreme crisis and receiving psychiatric treatment.  They are based on survivors' own understandings of madness and distress.  The conference topics will also include suicidality and self-harm which can challenge alternative practices and are often handed over to psychiatry.

Further information on this event (pdf; 372KB; opens in new window)
Booking form for event (word; opens in new window)

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Previous CEIMH events

Meet the Authors - 7 April 2011
Lunchtime seminar, held on 7 April 2011 and hosted by Suresearch and CEIMH, which provided an opportunity  to hear from two Suresearch members who have recently published their work.  They discussed the challenges and joys of creative writing and how they became authors.

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Unsettling Relations: Mad Activism and Academia - 12 April 2011
This seminar, held on 12 April 2011, included special guest speakers David Reville and Kathryn Church from Ryerson University School of Disability Studies, Toronto, in Canada and invited academics and activists from here in the UK.