Newsflash

Research Funding -

Going Begging!

If you are interested in reseach for

Primary Care proejcts, there is money available in the Chief Scientists Office, according to Helena Chesser, Business Manager of the Scottish School of

Primary Care. If you would like more

information on how to apply for this money please contact Helena direct on 0131 651 4015 or e-mail her on helena.chesser@sspc.uk.com.

Dramatherapy

Training Update

* Dramatherapy training began in EIRE on 20th and 21st September 2002. The course is a new MA (Dramatherapy) at NUI Maynooth, Ireland.

* Unfortunately the Dramatherapy course at

Ripon St John, York has closed.

* The University of Ulster will be beginning an arts therapy training course in Dramatherapy and Art Therapy at the Magee and Belfast

Campus sites in 2004.

SATF

The Scottish Arts Therapies Forum (SATF) AGM was held in Edinburgh on 11 May 2002. At their AGM a keynote address was given by Jacqui Lundy, Project Manager for Allied Health Professions Strategy at the Scottish

Executive. Jacqui spoke of being impressed by the enthusiasm, energy and positive attitude of arts therapists in tackling the challenges of being small professions. She encouraged the attendees to ‘use our creativity, see

ourselves as ambassadors - a walking advertisement for our work, using our personal influence to find allies. We are a precious resource.’

For more information on SATF contact their secretary and Dramatherapy Scotland member Zoe Brook on 0141 424 1068 or email her at create@bazookaarts.co.uk.

Update

In the News ...

NHS Education for Scotland was launched in May 2002 as a special health board to

promote multidisciplinary training and

education. Drawing together the experience of existing education organisations which represent doctors, dentists, pharmacists and nursing professions, the new body will first

concentrate on bringing together

education for these professions. Health

Minister Malcolm Chisholm also stated how the organisation will later ‘extend their remit to cover all NHS employees from

administration staff to physiotherapists.’

(Taken from Therapy Weekly 23/05/02)

Artslinc

For an example of

how European

funding has been

used to set up an arts training and inform-

ation network project visit www.artslinc.org.

Artslinc is a Wales-Ireland initiative which

aims to research, provide and promote cross

border information and training in the use of

arts as a medium for empowerment with a

range of groups. Recent work has included

a collaboration with the Northern Ireland

organisation ‘Breaking the Silence’. The

groups together presented an interesting

paper on the Role of the Arts in Enabling

Those Experiencing Symptoms of PTSD at

the BADTh AGM and Conference in Derry

last month.