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About Dragana's FETL Fellowship Research

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About Dragana's FETL Fellowship Research

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Dragana’s FETL Fellowship research focuses on two main themes: a vision for public sector partnership and the leadership characteristics needed for its development.

The purpose of the research is to stimulate stakeholders to reflect strategically on the values of joint work, create a new vision of partnership working between the adult education and health sectors and begin to articulate the leadership characteristics necessary for developing this vision. The main ambition of this new vision is to accomplish improved outcomes for adults with mild and moderate mental health issues through more effective collaboration between the sectors.

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Dragana has 16 years of experience of teaching, managing and leading work reaching out to those most disadvantaged and distanced from the learning experience. She has led a wide range of projects within specialist providers of adult learning, including community interpreting, mental health, community music and capacity building. Her postgraduate studies focused on the role of educational experience on integration of European migrants in the UK. Her current research interests focus on the value that adult education can bring through collaborative partnerships and altruistic leadership. Collaboration and Leadership for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing.

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International evidence shows that adult learning has a positive impact on mental health and wellbeing, as well as on a range of other aspects of adults’ lives.

This paper asserts that the impact tends to be most effective when organisations, national and local, work collaboratively in ways that involve local communities.

In the context of increased devolution and delegated adult education budgets to local areas, this paper asks:

What are the shared values and benefits of collaborative working between the primary care mental health service and adult and community learning sectors?

What could a shared vision of collaborative working between the two sectors look like?

What are the key leadership characteristics needed to make such a vision the reality?

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Here's the link to a brilliant animation that Dragana showed at her webinar. It 's just 2 minutes long.

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Collaboration and Leadership, Adult Community Learning 2018

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Here are the slides Dragana used in her FETL webinar on Friday 5 October 2018. She's happy for you to use them.

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Watch the recording of Dragana's FETL webinar on Friday 5 October 2018.

Don't forget to share this with others and leave a comment on YouTube.

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FETL Webinar 05 October 2018. Dragana J Ramsden and Paul Grainger