The Faculty of Health & Social Care at The Open University presents this free lunchtime seminar:
‘Please help me Aunt Agony: I’ve nobody else to turn to’.
Petra Boynton is a Social Psychologist working in International Primary Health Care, During her academic career she has specialised in
evidence based healthcare, and understanding research methodologies. He research and teaching is based on making research skills and evidence accessible to practitioners, students, and service users, and focuses
on sex and relationships issues in public health and media coverage of relationships.
She has applied this work for the past 12 years by working as an Agony Aunt at various magazines, newspapers and radio stations in the
UK and worldwide. She currently writes a weekly advice column for The Telegraph.
Advice columns remain a hugely popular part of our media but little is known about them. Who uses them? When and why do they contact an
Agony Aunt? Are advice columns helpful – or can they cause harm?
Drawing on her own experience, interviews with other Agony Aunts, analysis of advice columns and a review of the available literature
Petra will try and answer these questions. Using a framework of real reader problems where you get to be an Agony Aunt for the day. From this we can talk about the opportunities and limitations of media advice given in relation to physical and mental health
care and research.
Date: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Time: 13.00 - 14.00hrs
Venue:
Rooms 1 & 2 Michael Young Building, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
All university staff, students and external visitors are welcome. Feel free to bring a (cold) packed lunch with you - we will provide
tea, coffee and water.
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