Date: 18th and 19th June 2018
Location: University of Bristol
Deadline: Monday 16th April 2018
Call for Papers: Emerging and New Researchers in the Geographies of Health and Impairment (ENRGHI) Conference 2018
Papers are invited for 19th ENRGHI Conference, a two-day event organised by and for post-graduates and early career researchers, with generous support from the RGS (with IBG) Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (GHWRG). This longstanding conference offers a supportive environment to showcase research; providing valuable opportunities for networking, research feedback and discussion with researchers and students who have a shared interest in geographies of health, wellbeing, and impairment.
Attracting an international audience, the conference welcomes abstracts from individuals involved in health or wellbeing research within social, geographical, and/or environmental contexts. We invite submissions from both those working within and outside of geography as a discipline. The 2018 conference will take place on the 18th and 19th June 2018, hosted by the University of Bristol.
Conference papers can be based on work-in-progress or completed work. PhD students are encouraged to focus on a particular study aspect, such as a specific method, a literature review, or one aspect of empirical findings, rather than trying to cover their whole project.
The scope of the conference is broad in order to reflect the diversity of topics and research approaches utilised within the field of health, wellbeing, and impairment. Topics covered in previous conferences have included:
- Health inequalities, environmental justice, and equity
- Therapeutic landscapes, green/blue and ‘enabling’ spaces
- Health and wellbeing through the life course
- Mental health, everyday life, disability, and stigma
- Migration, mobilities, and health
- Health-related behaviours and practices
- Health-care delivery and access to services
- Health, mapping, and spatial analysis
- Health and health care in the Developing World
Additional topics of interest could include but are by no means limited to:
- Health tourism
- Healthy ‘norms’, socio-cultural dynamics, and moral judgements
- Traditional medicine and healing
- Environmental exposures and risk perception
- Innovative methods for exploring geographies of health and impairment
Guidelines for Submissions
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words. Please also provide the title, author(s), and affiliation. Oral presentations will be 10 minutes, followed by five minutes of discussion. Posters should be A0 in size and there will be designated time slots for poster presentations during the conference. Please state whether you are interested in doing a presentation, poster and/or chairing a session. Abstracts should be emailed with the subject title as ENRGHI CfP to enrghi2018@gmail.com by Monday 16th April 2018.
Prizes for the best presentations will be nominated by delegates and awarded at the end of the conference. Details of registration and travel bursaries will be made available in March on the ENRGHI 2018 website: www.enrghiconference.wordpress.com