Advanced Workshop for Anthropological Research on Health, Medicine, and Wellbeing
| Event Name | Advanced Workshop for Anthropological Research on Health, Medicine, and Wellbeing |
| Start Date | 16th Apr 2018 11:00am |
| End Date | 17th Apr 2018 5:00pm |
| Duration | 1 day and 6 hours |
| Description | The University of Edinburgh and Durham University co-host a yearly Advanced Workshop for Anthropological Research on Health, Medicine, and Wellbeing. The workshop is designed to provide a supportive environment for postgraduate students to present ongoing and planned research; to explore issues in carrying out and supporting research in health-related topics; to develop plans to improve research training and support for students working on health and wellbeing; and to provide opportunities for networking between staff and students at the two institutions. Day OnePanel One: Biosociality (11:00-12:15) Misheck Nkhata: Learning to manage uncertainty: diabetes education in Malawi Fredrik Nyman: “Shifting conditions”: Doing ethnography of a support group in transition Emily Tupper: “Getting fit and doing good”: Understanding processes of wellbeing through active research in “GoodGym” Bridget Bradley: From Biosociality to Biosolidarity: Advocacy and relatedness for people living with Body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) Panel Two: Technology (13:20-14:20) Alice-Amber Keegan: Parenting in the first 24-hours Abby King: Telehealth, the changing geography of care, and the normalisation of the virtual patient Lilian Kennedy: Strategies to mitigate temporal disorientation in Dementia : An opportunity to keep 'being with' each other Panel Three: Outside/In (14:25-15:25) Lila Warawutsunthon: Caring for Stray Animals in Thailand: Veterinary Medicine, Buddhism and the Problem of ‘Unowned’ Bodies Upul Wickramasinghe: Water, health, and kidney disease in Sri Lanka: perspectives from anthropology and Chemistry Roslyn Malcolm: “Because of the oxytocin being produced”: The fixity and flow of oxytocin as a substance of kinship Panel Four: Renegotiating (16:00-17:00) Alabi Timothy Olanrewaju: Ethnography of Mental Healthcare Practices and Quality of Care in Southwestern, Nigeria Janelle Wagnild: The prevalence and correlates of objectively measured sedentary time in pregnant women at risk of gestational diabetes in the UK: a mixed methods study Guy Paikowsky: ‘Trauma Play': A Care Ethic among Israeli Defense Forces Veterans Day TwoMSc Roundtables (9:00-10:00) Workshop: Impact on Paper and in Practice (10:30-13:00) |
