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Student mental ill-health was reported at 'crisis' level in 2020. Since then, COVID-19 has added extra stress and further professional concern.
This session will explore the extent of the student mental health crisis, and consider some of the implications and risks for Higher Education Institutions in managing this crisis.
Jackie Locke BSc (Hons) MSc Podiatry, MCPod, FFPM RCPS (Glasg), PgC LTHE fHEA
Jackie Locke is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, and has been undergraduate programme leader since 2014. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow) and a Fellow of the Academy of Higher Education. He has a longstanding special interest in local anaesthesia in podiatric practice, and nail surgery in the high risk patient and continues to practice clinically in these areas. In addition to being responsible for theoretical and practical delivery of local anaesthesia and nail surgery to undergraduates, he has delivered post graduate updates nationally and internationally. Other areas of interest include anatomy and all things medical especially neurological disease, and his current research is in student mental health. At a personal level interests include reading, photography, golf, cooking and travel, as well as spending time with children and grandchildren.