Sleep Problems and Self-Harm at University
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Michaela Pawley
- 02 April 2024
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Healthcare, Management & Leadership, Education
We spend approximately one third of our life sleeping, or at least trying to (Aminoff et al., 2011), however little is understood about the functions of sleep. What is known is that sleep difficulties are associated with mental health problems across all ages (Baglioni et al., 2016) , and that more and more individuals worldwide are getting insufficient sleep (Roenneberg, 2013), particularly adolescents (Chattu et al., 2018). Adolescence is the most common developmental phase for the onset of me…
How can ethical AI support efforts to safeguard our children?
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Gavin Day
- 18 March 2024
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Healthcare, Education, Planning & Development, Management & Leadership
How can ethical AI support efforts to safeguard our children?
Present safeguarding arrangements are largely manually driven, reactive and subjective. The result – Child Safeguarding failures: 40% are related to data silos, 41% related poor risk assessment (MacAlister, Independent Review of Children's Social Care 2022). Over the past five years a ground breaking ethical AI solution, CESIUM, has been co-designed and adopted by Lincolnshire Police. A validation of the solution in 2022 identified 1…
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Sam Gamblin
- 26 July 2023
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Healthcare, Management & Leadership, Education
UMHAN are celebrating our 20th year in student mental health this year. Set up as a small networking organisation for Mental Health Advisers, we now have around 600 members in many different roles across the education sector. UMHAN was a key part in a series of important firsts in Higher Education, including the emphasis on practical and whole-institution approaches to mental health and illness, the development of mental health-specific services in Higher Education, facilitating awareness-raisin…
