The new Wellcome Trust Themed Seed Awards are now live, providing flexible funding that will enable researchers to develop an innovative research response to a strategic challenge defined by the Wellcome Trust. In this themed Seed Award round, the Wellcome invite applications that directly address the ethical challenges surrounding social media and health. Areas of… Continue reading
Dr Sheila Dickson, SMLC, University of Glasgow ‘The development of Psychiatry as Medical Specialism in the Enlightenment period: Rotation Therapy for Maniacs, Melancholics and Idiots’ All are warmly invited to the next School of Modern Languages and Cultures Research Seminar on Wednesday 2nd December at 1pm in Room 317 of the Hetherington Building. Refreshments available. Psychiatry… Continue reading
Kelvin Smith PhD Scholarship, University of Glasgow “Geodiversity and human difference: disability, landscape form and process” This PhD project works across ecological performance, geomorphology, human geographies of exclusion, and sociologies of disability to develop new understanding and accounts of the relationships between humans and environments. Using empirical testimony of people with a range of disabilities… Continue reading
Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival Edinburgh, Fri 4th – Sun 6th December 2015 How does biomedical research take place? Is it safe? Who undertakes the research? Should vulnerable individuals, such as children, be used in biomedical investigations? The Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival, the first of its kind, will seek to answer some of these… Continue reading
Glasgow Encounters with Tropical Disease Friday 8th January 2016 Many of the diseases that are endemic to developing countries in the tropics are caused by parasites. An extraordinary number of these parasites were first discovered by Scottish scientists and doctors, many of whom were graduates of the University of Glasgow. This symposium, organised by the… Continue reading
The Brocher Foundation is located on the shores of the Geneva Lake, in Hermance (Geneva -Switzerland). The Brocher Foundation residencies last between one and four months. They give researchers the opportunity to work at the Brocher Centre on projects on the ethical, legal and social implications for humankind of recent medical research and new technologies. Every month a dozen of visiting researchers live… Continue reading
Illustrating microorganisms: Sir William Watson Cheyne and early bacteriology in British medicine Seminar by Jane Coutts, co-hosted by the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine (Tiziana Lembo) and Institute of Health and Wellbeing (Malcolm Nicolson) Monday 30th November 2015, 16:00 – 17:00 Yudowitz Seminar Room 1, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow Sir… Continue reading
Professor John Abraham, Pharmaceutical Progress and Promissory Science: Regulatory Change, Innovation, and Public Health Date: 12-1pm, Thursday 3rd December 2015 Venue: Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Teviot Place, Edinburgh Abstract Drawing on years of fieldwork in the US and the EU, this lecture examines the relationship between government measures to stimulate and increase the… Continue reading
As part of the British Academy funded project, ‘A Tapestry of Tales: Investigating the Historical Geographies of Art Therapy and ‘Art Extraordinary’ in Scotland’ an event entitled ‘Sharing Reflections: Scottish Outsider Art and Art Extraordinary’ is being hosted at the CCA on Friday 4th December (see programme below) at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)… Continue reading
Dörte Bemme, ‘The re-configuration of ‘Mental Health’ into a global object of care’ Date: Thursday 3rd December 2015 Time:12.30pm Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Seminar Room A/B, 1 University Ave, G12 8NN Chair: Dr Ross White Register: DörteBemme.eventbrite.co.uk Visiting lecture by Dörte Bemme, a PhD candidate at McGill University. Her research involves multi-sited fieldwork within the institutional assemblage of… Continue reading
