Events

Forthcoming Events

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Past Events

21 June 2018 (11.30-15.00)
Using Science and Technology Studies Approaches in Health Improvement Research (funded by the Health Foundation)
Jubilee Conference Centre, Nottingham, UK

15 December 2017 (11.30am–3.30pm)
East Midlands Medical Sociology Group Winter Event: Chronicity, care and emotion work
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  • Keynote Speaker - Professor Mary Dixon Woods, University of Leicester - 'Fugitive knowledge and its role in patient safety'
  • Speakers - Dr Jenelle Clarke, University of Nottingham: - 'We are 24/7 Therapy': the importance of everyday social interactions in therapeutic communities'
  • Josephine Go Jefferies, University of Nottingham: - 'Telehealth Ninjas: A study of the mastery of technologies for chronic disease care'
16 December 2015
East Midlands Medical Sociology Group Event
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  • Keynote speaker - Professor Simon Dyson, Director of the Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell, De Montfort University - ‘“Talk to me. There’s two of us” Fathers and sickle cell screening’
11 May 2015
East Midlands Medical Sociology Group Event
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  • Keynote Speaker - Professor Joanna Latimer, Cardiff University 'Repelling neoliberal world-making: ageing, dementia and iresponse-ability'
  • Speakers - Oliver Williams, University of Leicester 'Health Inequalities, New Public Health and Area-Based Initiatives: Redressing Ecological Disparities or Placing Blame?'
    Caroline Morris, University of Leicester 'The Practice of Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Primary Care' 

5 December 2014
BSA Human Reproduction Study Group and East Midlands Medical Sociology Group Event
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

  • Keynote Speaker - Dr Petra Nordqvist, University of Manchester 'Researching family sensitivities: Donor conception, secrecy and family life'
    Speakers - Dr Gareth Thomas, Cardiff University 'Everything’s data darling: An ethnography of screening for Down’s Syndrome in UK antenatal care'
    Dr Juliet Rayment, City University 'Emotional labour: doing qualitative research in maternity care'
  • 5 November 2014

East Midlands Medical Sociology Group Event
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

  • Keynote Speaker - Honorary Prof. Nick J Fox, University of Sheffield 'Personal medical devices, micropolitics and materialism'

11 June 2014
East Midlands Medical Sociology Group Event
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

  • Keynote speaker - Prof. Anne Kerr, University of Leeds 'Emotional Work in Biomedical Innovation'
  • Speakers - Kylie Baldwin, De Montfort University 'Social egg freezing: Women’s experience of a new form of fertility preservation'
    Robyn Lotto, University of Leicester 'Decision-making following suspicion or diagnosis of a severe congenital anomaly – The clinician’s perspective'