An Invitation from the Head of School

Professor Chris Stevenson, PhD, MSc, BA(Hons), RMN

Dear Colleagues,

Rapid and often unpredictable change continues to be characteristic of health and health care provision. Key issues include, working from an evidence base, targeting the whole person, technological innovation, complex ethical and legal challenges, new policy initiatives and increased public and professional expectations. The School of Nursing , DCU is responding to these challenges through its inter-disciplinary, inter-organisational research portfolio, Health4Life. The highly successful inaugural Health4Life conference brought together people with different relationships with research, novices and experts, academics and service providers, to debate cutting edge research, engage in research learning and establish fruitful research collaborations.

We are pleased to announce our second Health4Life conference 'Thinking, Feeling, Being: Critical Perspectives and Creative Engagement in Psychosocial Health.' The conference offers a further opportunity for continued dialogue, critical discourse and research linking. The conference will be held in the School of Nursing , DCU from Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th September 2007. We have gathered together internationally renowned speakers as well as local and national talent who will offer wide ranging, sometimes controversial and sometimes conflicting, perspectives on psychological health.

I hope you will be able to attend this important, stimulating and mind changing conference, and look forward to meeting you in September.

Chris Stevenson