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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Thu, 7 Jun 2018 13:53:19 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] You can follow the BSA MedSoc Group on @BSAMedsoc You can follow the BSA funded blog on health in times of austerity on @Cost_ofLiving +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers: Poverty, Pathology and Pills – one day conference, 15th January 2019 Wellcome Trust, Euston Road, London Poverty and deprivation create and exacerbate mental distress. Although recent years have seen governments committing to expand mental health provision, such strategies are usually underpinned by biomedical and diagnostic assumptions that draw on medical ‘solutions’ whilst overlooking the broader socio-economic context in which poverty-related distress manifests and plays out. This becomes particularly contentious in times of economic austerity, when strategies aimed at reforming systems of welfare support intersect with those aimed at supporting mental health and wellbeing. Building on the findings of our ESRC funded project (DeStress), this full-day, interdisciplinary conference will analyse the inter-relationship between poverty and distress, and will interrogate the relevance and effectiveness of current mental health treatment options. The day will provide an opportunity for people to present their findings alongside DeStress and to develop new research ideas and collaborations. We invite abstracts (<250 words) for papers that address these issues and that may provide diverse disciplinary and methodological insight into the following: - how poverty-related mental distress is understood and responded to across diverse social, cultural and global contexts - how austerity and welfare reform impacts on mental health and wellbeing - how poverty-related mental distress can be conceptualised and responded to in a way that in a way that is helpful to patients and health providers - how health professionals can be enabled to more effectively support those experiencing poverty-related mental distress - the potential for non-medical intervention to alleviate poverty-related mental distress and support mental wellbeing This is a free event that will be held in London on 15th January 2019. A limited number of travel bursaries are available for early career researchers. Please submit abstracts to Felicity Thomas at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 30th July 2018. Dr. Felicity Thomas Co-Director WHO Collaborating Centre on Culture and Health Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health Queen’s Building University of Exeter Exeter EX4 4QJ Tel: +44 (0)1392 72 4249/2820 ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html **********************************************************************