Dear fellow anthropologists,
Lancaster University Centre forHealth Inequalities Research is delighted to host two exciting seminars thissemester. Please publicise these aroundyour networks, colleagues, students, etc. We look forward to see many of you!Warmest wishesAna
1. The first talk is on Thursday 16th of February 2017. DR KATH MAGUIRE, from Exeter Medical School, will bediscussing therole of participatory action research in supporting the social ownership ofknowledge as a public good. 2. The second talk is on Tuesday 28th March 2017. PROFESSOR CLARE BAMBRA, Newcastle University Medical School, willbe discussing whygeography is a matter of life and death. Find below the abstracts.
-------------------------------------------
Dr Kath Maguire, Research Fellow Universityof Exeter Medical School Who knows? Participatory action research and thesocial ownership of knowledge Thursday 16th February 2017, 12:30 to 1:30pm Management School Lecture Theatre 12, LancasterUniversity Withoutqualifications and living on benefits, our house backed on to an inner citymotorway. My chronically ill child could no longer breathe well enough to playoutside. Radio 4 alerted me to an Asthma UK review of evidence linking airpollution and respiratory illness in children. Pre-internet, I wrote off for acopy and clutching it went to ask the paediatrician to support my request to bere-housed. He said that he could not confirm a connection between my child’sdeteriorating condition and air quality. I asked if he had read the Asthma UKreport. His reply: “I write these things, I don’t read them!”. This statement defines atoxic binary social relationship between those who are legitimate holders ofknowledge and those who are not. This binary relationship is a barrier to theimplementation of evidence. Participatory action research, with its emphasis onco-production and the value of different types of knowledge, offers a way tochallenge this barrier. This seminar tries to answer the following questions:can demonstrating the social production of knowledge support the socialownership of knowledge as a public good? And would socially owned knowledge beeasier to put into practice? --------------------------------------------- Clare Bambra, Professor of Public Health,Newcastle University Medical School Whygeography is a matter of life and death Tuesday 28th March 2017, 1.00pm to2.00pm, Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theatre, A022Bowland Today,Americans live three years less than their counterparts in Spain or Sweden.Scottish men live more than two years less than English men and Northerners inEngland live two years less than Southerners. Londoners living in Canning Townat one end of the Jubilee tube line live seven years less than those livingeight stops along in Westminster. There is a 25 year gap in life expectancybetween residents of the Iberville and Naverre suburbs of the US city of NewOrleans – although they are just three miles apart. This talk examines theseinequalities in life and death, showing that geographical health divides arelongstanding and universal – present to a greater of lesser extent across bothtime and space. Drawingon case studies of the US health disadvantage, the Scottish health effect, theNorth South health divide in England and local health inequalities across thetowns and cities of wealthy countries, this talk explores the historical andcontemporary nature of geographical inequalities in health. It looks at howthey have evolved over time, what they are like today, and their social,environmental, economic and – ultimately - political causes. It examines whathas and what could be done by governments to reduce these inequalities and howhealth divides might develop in the future. The talk presents a wealth ofinternational, historical and contemporary data, to demonstrate how and whygeography is a matter of life and death.
---------- Dr Ana Porroche-Escudero Senior Research Associate NIHR CLAHRC NWC
Division of Health Research Faculty of Health & Medicine Furness Building Lancaster University
LA1 4YG
NIHR CLAHRC NWC Health Inequalities Assessment Toolkit: http://www.hiat.org.uk/
Breast Cancer Consortium, Changing the Paradigm: http://breastcancerconsortium.net/about/
“Oncofertility: Beyond Biological Motherhood, Towards ReproductiveJustice”: http://breastcancerconsortium.net/oncofertility-beyond-biological-motherhood-towards-reproductive-justice/
*************************************************************
* Anthropology-Matters Mailing List
* http://www.anthropologymatters.com *
* A postgraduate project comprising online journal, *
* online discussions, teaching and research resources *
* and international contacts directory. *
* To join this list or to look at the archived previous *
* messages visit: *
* http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML *
* If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all *
* those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: *
* [log in to unmask] *
* *
* Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new *
* CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com *
* an international directory of anthropology researchers
*
* To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and *
* go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. *
*
***************************************************************
|