REMINDER
Women's Informed Childbearing and Health (WICH)
Research Group
University of Sheffield
Pollution and Safety: Exploring the ‘dirty’ side of women’s health
Sheffield
June 14th 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
Closing date for submissions: 1 November 2003
The WICH Research Group, within the School of Nursing and
Midwifery at the University of Sheffield, is hosting this conference in
response to an increasing body of research on aspects of
pollution and women’s health.
The development of modern health care and birthing practices has
been associated with emphasis upon safety and clinical cleanness
along with significant changes in roles and beliefs. Yet themes of
dirt recur, for instance, in research on practices within modern
labour wards, around sexually transmitted diseases and in many
medicalised aspects of women’s health care as well as in
traditional settings.
The conference aims to examine aspects of ‘dirty work’ as well as
‘feeling dirty’, exploring concepts of pollution within personal
experience, work practices and organisations. Papers that address
the formulation and rationalisation of practices around pollution, or
that explore the place of concepts of pollution within authoritative
knowledge are especially welcome.
The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners
from a range of disciplines and a number of countries.
Funding is being sought for a small number of student bursaries.
Guidelines For Abstract Submission
Anonymised abstracts will be reviewed by an international, multi-
disciplinary scientific committee.
Papers will be considered for oral or poster presentations.
Authors of oral presentations should plan to speak for 20 minutes
and allow 10 minutes for comments and questions.
Offers of papers and abstracts of 250 words should be sent by 1st
November 2003. Please use 12 point Arial font if possible.
Accepted abstracts will be reproduced for conference participants.
There are TWO ways to submit an abstract,
§by e-mail to:
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§or on disk (in word 6/97/2000 format) to (please note abstract
title and format on the disc):
Jane Flint
Conference Organiser
School of Nursing and Midwifery
University of Sheffield
Winter Street
Sheffield S3 7ND
Information To Be Provided
The presenting author should be first author on a paper. Please
provide the following information for this author on a separate page
from the abstract:
§Family name
§First name(s)
§Address for correspondence (including postcode)
§Telephone and fax numbers during daytime (including country
and area dialling code)
§E-mail address
§Short work address (two lines maximum). This should include
name of institution (etc.), city, country and postcode.
§Title/Post
§Whether the author is a first time presenter, and/or a
postgraduate student.
Registration forms will be available from January 2004 from the
conference organiser.
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Mavis Kirkham, Professor of Midwifery
Women's Informed Childbearing and Health Research Group
School of Nursing and Midwifery
University of Sheffield
Bartolome House, Winter Street, Sheffield, UK S3 7ND
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 9707
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 9712
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/wich
