Friday 7 October 2022 9am-4pm BST Online international colloquium Informed consent is integral to maternity care. Throughout pregnancy, labour, birth, and the postnatal period, the childbearing woman or person, or parents, are regularly required to provide either verbal or written consent for any care, action, or intervention. Without this explicit consent no action can be undertaken. For people with limited […]
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Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics are held annually during the summer at Lancaster University. Taking part in the summer schools offers a wonderful opportunity to learn about corpus linguistics from leading scholars in the field and meet many other participants working on exciting projects and topics. Lancaster summer schools are a truly international event, each year welcoming participants from over […]
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Bhitaj Ajana, King’s College London, UK 5 May 2022 12:00–13:00 In this talk, I revisit the Quantified Self movement, a community of practice concerned with the use and development of self-tracking tools for the purpose of self-improvement and health management (see https://quantifiedself.com/about/what-is-quantified-self/). I discuss the ways in which Quantified Self practices and their data driven approach can be considered as […]
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What are the lessons for sustainable healthcare education? Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler, Aarhus University, Denmark 28. April 2022 12:00–13:00 With the steady flow of risk messages about the pandemic and climate change, the 2020s have reminded us viscerally of our human frailty to novel viruses and the vulnerability of our planetary home to climate change. In many ways, the institutional/mainstream […]
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‘What’s the problem with antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? A linguist’s perspective’ by Gabriela Saldanha Thursday 17th March, 11am GMT @CentreShe Gabriela Saldanha is a researcher in SHE, where she works on the development of the Oslo Medical Corpus and on the EquityAMR project. In this talk, Gabriela will discuss the results of a comparative study of global and local (Indian […]
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