Date: 30th November 2018 Closing Date for Abstracts: 31st October 2018 Closing Date for Registration: 23rd November 2018 Location: University of Edinburgh, School of Health in Social Science, Teviot Place, Doorway 6, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Room 4.1 (4th floor) ‘Corpus Linguistics in Scotland’ Network Meeting Corpus Linguistics in the Arts and Humanities 30th November 2018, University of… Continue reading
Date: 1pm-5pm, 12th October 2018 Location: Birkbeck, University of London, UK Building alliances: Mental health activism and the academy There is a mental health and social welfare crisis in the UK. Disability and service user-led groups are leading campaigns to raise awareness of and challenge government cuts and policy “reform”. The question arises: how can… Continue reading
Date: 8th October 2018, 13:30 – 15:00pm Location: The Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, UK The Centre for Global Health Histories invites you to attend Global Health Histories Seminar 111: ‘Zika’, which will be held at the University of York, UK, on Monday 8th October 2018. Global Health Histories Seminar 111: ZIKA 8 October 2018, 13:30… Continue reading
Date: 11am-3pm, Friday 5th October 2018 Location: SGSAH Meeting Room, University of Glasgow Registration Open Until All Places Are Filled Places are still available for this Friday’s Scottish Medical Humanities Doctoral Research Network – Scoping Meeting, originally planned for the 7th March 2018. The scoping meeting was postponed in March due to planned industrial action. It… Continue reading
Date: 4pm, Thursday 27th September 2018 Location: Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, 23 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh Speakers: Dr Jonathan Pugh, from Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Abstract: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is currently being investigated as an experimental treatment for patients suffering from a range of treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders, with an increasing number of… Continue reading
Date: 6:30-8:30 pm, 27th September 2018 Location: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Speakers: PROFESSOR NICK HOPKINS (Law Commissioner responsible for Surrogacy at the Law Commission) CLAIRE KELLY (a surrogate who has helped two couples have families) DR KIRSTY HORSEY (Chief Examiner and Reader in Law at the University of Kent) ROBERT GILMOUR… Continue reading
Date: 10:00-17:00, Friday 12 October 2018 Location: St Chad’s College, 18 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RH Booking is now open for this FREE training day designed to provide late-stage postgraduates and early career researchers with practical and up-to-date insights into the Research Excellence Framework (REF). With speakers to include Professor Jane Macnaughton (Durham University), Dr Coreen… Continue reading
Date: 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Wednesday 24th October 2018 Location: Lecture Theatre, Hunterian Art Gallery As part of Black History Month, Professor Manuel Barcia will be giving an evening lecture at The Hunterian Lecture Theatre, titled, “Beware, Beware of the Bight of Benin: The Struggle against Disease in the Slave Trade Contact Zones, 1807-1867”. This lecture is part of… Continue reading
Date: 13:30 pm, 25 September 2018 Location: The Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, UK The Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York warmly invites you to attend Global Health Histories Seminar 110: ‘Polio, Immunization and Universal Health Coverage’, which will be held at the University of York, UK, on… Continue reading
Date: Friday 23rd November 2018 Location: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Senate House, London Deadline for Abstracts: 30th September 2018 Working together: collaboration beyond the academy in research in dementia and culture A Dementia and Cultural Narrative Network event Organisers: Dr Sarah Falcus (University of Huddersfield) and Dr Raquel Medina (Aston University) Those working in the broad… Continue reading
