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**FINAL REMINDER 'THE BODY AND SOCIAL POLICY' CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
DEADLINE: 20TH DECEMBER**

Please find below the final programme for the conference on 'The Body and 
Social Policy' - due to take place at The University of Leeds on the 15th 
January 2008. Guest speakers are Prof. Julia Twigg and Prof. Chris 
Shilling. You are warmly invited to attend this event!

Registration fees for the conference are £40 for BSA/SPA members and £50
for non members. The deadline for registration is the *20th December*. To 
request a registration form please contact me at: [log in to unmask]

Best wishes,

Angharad Beckett.

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The Body and Social Policy
Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds
15th January 2008

Programme

10.00-10.30 Registration and Tea/Coffee

10.30-11.30 Welcome and Key Note Speaker: Prof. Julia Twigg (University of 
Kent). Julia’s paper will address the conference theme.

11.30-12.30 Paper Session 1: (3 parallel sessions)

A: Body and Care
Cinnamon Bennett, Lisa Buckner and Gary Fry (University of Leeds): ‘“I 
don’t feel the way I used to – particularly strong, alert or sharp or 
anything.” Carers’ poor health and policy responses.’

Andrew Power (University of Lancaster): ‘Embodied Geographies of Care: 
experiences of “caring” for young adults with intellectual disabilities’. 

B: Gender/Body/Policy
Sally Hines (University of Leeds): ‘Transforming Bodies: transgender 
embodiment, social theory and social policy’.

Kay Inckle (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Body and Soul: developing a holistic 
response to self-injury’.

C: Sport/Body/Policy
Catherine Palmer (Durham University): ‘Concealing Bodies: veiling, sport 
and Muslim refugee women’.

Amanda Waring (Loughborough University): ‘Physical Education as Embodied 
Practice: the development of capital through body work and physical 
activity’.

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.30 Paper Session 2: (2 parallel sessions)

D: Ageing Bodies/Policy
Theresa Ellmers, Sara Arber, Ingrid Eyers (University of Surrey): ‘Our 
Sleep Our Bodies Our Say – investigating sleep in care homes for older 
people’.
 
Wendy Martin (University of Reading): ‘Gender, Emotions and the Body in 
Later Life: lived experiences, policy concerns’.

E: Body/Surveillance/Policy
Lynda Measor (University of Brighton): ‘“Reading” Condoms - Resisting 
their Use: young people’s reactions to condom use in the UK’.

Mary Stewart (University of Oxford): ‘Midwives and Vaginal Examination in 
Labour: panoptical power and the gaze’.

14.30-15.30 Paper Session 3: (3 parallel sessions)

F: ‘Deviant’ Bodies/Policy
Teela Sanders (University of Leeds) ‘Rehabilitating the Prostitute Body: 
compulsory lifestyles, regulatory therapy and New Labour’.

Richard Huggins (Oxford Brookes University): ‘Embodied Drugs Use: mapping 
social and policy representations of the addict’s body’. 

G: The Body and Health Policy
Jeff Fernandez (Islington Primary Care Trust): ‘Changing One’s Spots: a 
case study of making a local NHS service culturally responsive’.

Pam Lowe, (Aston University), Frances Griffiths, Felicity Boardman and 
Roger Gadsby (University of Warwick): ‘Conception Journeys of Women with 
Type 1 Diabetes’.

Daphna Carmeli (University of Haifa, Israel): ‘Adoption, Fertility 
Treatments and the Privileging Natural Relatedness in Israel’.

H: Children’s Bodies/Policy

Rachel Colls (Durham University) and Janet Shucksmith (University of 
Teeside): ‘I Thought They’d Go, Like, “You’re Obese”, or Something: 
bodies, knowledges and children’s experiences of the Body Mass Index (BMI) 
surveillance programme’.

Tish Marrable (University of Sussex): ‘Children’s Bodies, Children’s 
Services: a discussion of positioning the body in “children with 
additional needs”’ 

15.30- 15.40 Short Break

15.40-16.30 Plenary Session - Prof. Chris Shilling (University of 
Kent): ‘The Body Pedagogics of Human Wellbeing’

16.30 Conclusion and Thanks


Additional Information:

Weetwood Hall is accessible to wheelchair users.

There is free parking in a large car park at the venue.

Lunch will include vegetarian option/s.

Complimentary refreshments (tea/coffee/fruit cordial) and energising 
snacks (!) will be available throughout the day until 3.30pm.


For further information about this event please contact: Angharad Beckett 
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