Theme: Cultures of health and wellbeing 

Papers are invited for 20th ENRGHI Conference, a two-day event organised by and for post-graduates and early career researchers, with generous support from the RGS (with IBG) Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (GHWRG) and the Wellcome Centre Cultures and Environments of Health. This longstanding conference offers a supportive environment to showcase research; providing valuable opportunities for networking, research feedback and discussion with researchers and students who have a shared interest in geographies of health, wellbeing, and impairment.

Attracting an international audience, the conference welcomes abstracts from individuals involved in health or wellbeing research within social, geographical, and/or environmental contexts. We invite submissions from both those working within and outside of geography as a discipline. The 2019 conference will take place on the 17th and 18th June 2019, hosted by the University of Exeter.

Conference papers can be based on work-in-progress or completed work. PhD students are encouraged to focus on a particular study aspect, such as a specific method, a literature review, or one aspect of empirical findings, rather than trying to cover their whole project.

The scope of the conference is broad in order to reflect the diversity of topics and research approaches utilised within the field of health, wellbeing, and impairment. Topics covered in previous conferences have included:

• Health inequalities, environmental justice, and equity
• Therapeutic landscapes, green/blue and ‘enabling’ spaces
• Health and wellbeing through the life course
• Mental health, everyday life, disability, and stigma
• Migration, mobilities, and health
• Health-related behaviours and practices
• Health-care delivery and access to services
• Health, mapping, and spatial analysis
• Health and health care in the Developing World

Additional topics of interest that fit in the theme ‘cultures of health and wellbeing’ are as follows:

• Health technologies and media e.g. health surveillances: care and control
• Conceptualising health and health geographies: boundaries and conflicts
• Healthy environments and performances
• Public engagement, what does it mean for geographies of health research? 
• Sensitive issues and ‘emotion work’ in health research/ethical issues in health research
• PGR and ECR mental health and wellbeing
• Creative health geographies: theatre, art, poetry
• Interdisciplinary approaches to health
• The mental health treatment gap and health inequalities
• Framing disease: health and illness in modernity
• Sickness, health and remedies since Antiquity
• Women’s health, sex and reproduction
• Death, grief and loss

Guidelines for Submissions

Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words. Please also provide the title, author(s), and affiliation. Oral presentations will be 10 minutes, followed by five minutes of discussion. Posters should be A0 in size and there will be designated time slots for poster presentations during the conference. Please state whether you are interested in doing a presentation, poster and/or chairing a session. Please also provide 4 keywords. Abstracts should be emailed with the subject title as ENRGHI CfP to [log in to unmask] by Friday 12^th April 2019.

Prizes for the best presentations will be nominated by delegates and awarded at the end of the conference. Details of registration and fee waivers will be made available in April on the ENRGHI 2019 website: https://enrghi2019.wordpress.com/.