BAIL'S TALES - AUGUST - "BAIL UPSCALE"

We have up scaled our BAIL intellectual fire power this month.

Both Claire Freeman and Maria van den Heuvel passed their Masters with Distinction. We are enormously proud of them both and as is the BAIL custom celebrated with a cake.

The celebration corresponded with our Peer Group meeting at which Tracey Partridge presented the findings from a Narrative Review of Community Reintegration following Acquired Brain Injury which was undertaken in 2010-11 in collaboration with Anne Sinnott and Debbie Snell. This BAIL project was funded by a grant from the Canterbury Community Trust and will contribute to the development of other projects in this field. In attendance was the Chairman of Trust, Alec Neill accompanied by two of his staff and they were most impressed with our presentation and the panel discussion that followed.

It has been another action packed month at BAIL starting with hosting the Mayor and his wife to discuss our concerns around the mobility issues of our impaired community during earthquakes and snow storms.

The Connections 2012 SCIN Conference was well represented from Burwood with Anne Sinnott, Ray Singhal and Hans Wouters attending what was a fascinating event. Some very good connections were made which will certainly come in handy as we seek to collaborate more and more with our colleagues across the ditch. At the time of writing our Academic Director Dr Debbie Snell will be in Prague attending the European Health Psychology Society Conference which has the theme of “Resilience and Health”. We look forward to telling you all about it in our next BAIL’s tales.