Glenside
Part of the Glenside Hospital Building (now Faculty of Health and Social Care, UWE)
Glenside, Bristol is located in Bristol
Glenside, Bristol
Location within Bristol
General information
Town or cityBristol
CountryEngland
Completed1861
Design and construction
Architect(s)Henry Crisp

Glenside campus is the home of the School of Health and Social Care at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. It is located on Blackberry Hill in the suburb of Fishponds. grid reference ST625763. Its clocktower is a prominent landmark, visible from the M32 motorway.

History

Beaufort Hospital was founded as a lunatic asylum in 1861, designed by Henry Crisp and built next to the co-located Stapleton Hospital mental health facility. Stanley Spencer worked as a medical orderly at the Beaufort from 1915-16. It was renamed Glenside under the NHS reforms of the 1950s.

From January 1993, the two hospitals merged to become the jointly named Blackberry Hill Hospital. Patients of Glenside were assessed for capability, with many placed within the Care in the Community programme, while the residual were moved in to new buildings constructed on the former Manor Park site for their long term care.[1]

The former Glenside Hospital campus was bought in 1996 when the Avon and Gloucestershire College of Health and Bath and Swindon College of Health Studies, joined with the existing UWE Faculty of Health and Community Studies.

Buildings

The buildings on the site include several Grade II listed buildings:

Museum

Old Chapel, now Glenside Museum

The museum, founded by Dr Donal F. Early used to be situated in the balcony of the canteen, but has since re-located to the Grade 2 listed Glenside Chapel. The museums collection consists of a wide range of paraphernalia and images from the life of Glenside and of the local Learning Disability Hospitals of the Stoke Park Group and the Burden Neurological Institution. The museum charges no entrance fee, but depends on donations from the public, and currently opens every Wednesday 10am-12pm and Saturdays 10am-12pm.

Departments

The School of Health & Social Care is part of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences and includes the following schools:

The school hosts both the whole systems action research group Centre for Social and Organisational Learning as Action Research (SOLAR) and the Centre for Local Democracy which is a multi Faculty research centre of the University.

Courses

The Lodge at Glenside

The faculty offers full- and part-time courses at all levels, from BSc and Diploma courses to MSc and PhD, plus a wide range of continuing education, in the areas of Midwifery, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Radiography, Social Work and other health-related professions. Many students undertake placements as part of their course within the Avon, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority.

Facilities

The campus provides a range of facilities including:

References

  1. ^ "Blackberry Hill Hospital". BBC West. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  2. ^ Pusey, Sarah. "CSI: UWE Style". Western Eye. UWESU. Retrieved 2009-01-26. [dead link]
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