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Forensic Psychiatry Research Society |
Notes of the meeting of 17th April 2008
| 1. | Present: Seena Fazel, David James, Pamela Taylor Apologies: Tim Amos, Don Grubin, Harry Kennedy, Jenny Shaw |
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| 2. | Committee Membership It was confirmed that Seena Fazel, Tim Amos and David James had all agreed to join an expanded FPRS Committee |
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| 3. | Accounts No formal report received on the accounts, the main immediate issue being covering the cost of today?s meeting. Seena Fazel will liaise with Don Grubin over any shortfall |
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| 4. | Future Programme The next meeting of the Forensic Psychiatry Research Society should be a London based meeting in or about November 2008. There has been no confirmation yet of how and where that is to be hosted, but plans are in hand. The Danish visitors will not be attending this year, but are due again in 2009 Dr Tim Amos has offered to host a meeting in Bristol for Spring/early Summer 2009 |
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| 5. | Promotion of Research Skills Workshop 2009 David James was able to provide useful advice on the possible relationship of such a workshop to the Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Forensic Faculty Meeting. Various options considered would be to add a day on to that meeting, to negotiate for an extended workshop, which would be repeated, within the framework of the meeting, and to arrange for an independent day. David?s recommendation is to add on an extra pre-meeting day, but suggests that this may be quite hard to negotiate with the College Conference Office, and it would be important to have them on side in order to negotiate best costs for the pre-conference day. A lot will depend on including the new Chairman of the Forensic Faculty in the planning of the day, and having that person on side. Costs of the day were considered, and thought to be broadly the cost of a conference room in the hotel, the cost of any invited speakers, and possibly the additional costs incurred by FPRS members running the workshop. These would basically be the extra night in the hotel. The discussion led to much the same principles for the day as the preliminary discussion in February, with a suggestion that the main component should be a long session on an introduction to research design ? perhaps the whole morning, followed by shorter sessions respectively on systematic reviewing, poster presentations and how to publish papers. It was further suggested that the introduction to research design might be negotiated as a module to be borrowed from existing taught courses, for example the Institute of Psychiatry. Seena Fazel would be prepared to conduct the session on systematic reviewing. David would be happy to contribute in any way, but would be willing to lead the session on poster presentations. David and Seena had heard the editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica present an excellent session on how to publish papers, and, subject to cost, and perhaps linking him in to the main meeting in some way, this would be an excellent option for this session. Alternatively editors from three of the key specialist journals in which people might wish to contribute ? Connor Duggan for the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Jim Ogloff for the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health and Pamela Taylor for Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health, might be persuaded to run a joint session on how to publish. DJ suggested that given the Faculty?s support for research development, it might be possible to negotiate a sum of money, perhaps up to £5,000, from the Faculty budget to support this day. |
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| 6. | The Department of Health request to the Forensic Psychiatry Research Society
for research reviewers for specific research calls was noted. All present were willing to be approached. |
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| 7. | No further news on the correspondence with Stuart Bell | |
| 8. | There was no news on the planning meeting with the Department of Health on
dearth of monies for forensic psychiatric research. PJT will contact Gill Mezey for information. She was attending the planning meeting on behalf of the forensic faculty |
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| 9. | There was no other business | |
| DJ and PJT thanked Seena Fazel for an extremely interesting and successful meeting in Oxford | ||