<div dir="ltr"><font color="#500050">Please find below details of an "Ethnographies and Health" workshop in London for PhD students and Early Career Researchers from across the social sciences.<br><br></font><font color="#500050"> ***<br><br> Re-politicising Public Health: A workshop for early career ethnographers<br> King’s College London, 1st and 2nd October 2018<br><br></font> Find the full call for abstracts and details for the workshop on the workshop website<<a href="https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-politicising-public-health" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.lshtm.ac.u<wbr>k/re-politicising-public-healt<wbr>h</a> <<a href="https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-politicising-public-health" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-po<wbr>liticising-public-health</a>>>.<span class="gmail-im"><br><br><br> Overview<br> This two-day workshop invites participants to interrogate how ethnographic research can lend itself to political change in health, paying close attention to methodological problems that may arise in enacting what we might call “activist scholarship”. Our point of departure is a shared concern that health related research often shies away from both discussion and engagement in political change; we are interested in disrupting this trend by drawing on ethnographic methodologies. We are particularly interested in the ways ethnographies might connect us to new and unexpected ways of influencing the world. Yet we are also acutely aware of the uneasy relationship that ethnography can have with “more direct” political work such as activism. Through critical and imaginative engagement with concepts such as impact, accountability and power, this workshop will explore how ethnographic methods can re-politicise public health research.<br><br> Confirmed keynote speakers<br> Ingunn Moser (VID Specialised University, Oslo)<br> Michele Lancione (University of Sheffield)<br><br> Participants<br></span> We invite participants (doctoral students, post-doctoral and self-defining early career researchers) to discuss the workshop themes<<a href="https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-politicising-public-health#call-for-abstracts" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.lshtm.ac.uk<wbr>/re-politicising-public-health<wbr>#call-for-abstracts</a> <<a href="https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-politicising-public-health#call-for-abstracts" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/re-po<wbr>liticising-public-health#call-<wbr>for-abstracts</a>>> in different fieldwork settings focusing on health and inequality, broadly defined. We welcome perspectives from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, geography, history and more.<span class="gmail-im"><br><br><br> Organisers<br> The workshop is organised by Hannah Cowan, Natassia Brenman (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Charlotte Kühlbrandt (King’s College London), with the support of Professor Simon Cohn and Professor Christopher McKevitt who will be our discussants. The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness has generously provided funding for the workshop.<br><br> Attendance<br> Attendance is free of any cost to invited participants. Five small bursaries of £75 will be available as contributions towards travel and accommodation costs for delegates with limited funding for attending workshops. Please indicate when you submit your abstract if you wish to be considered for a bursary and why.<br><br> Abstract submission<br></span> Abstracts should be submitted as a word document to <a href="mailto:ethnographies.health.2018@gmail.com" target="_blank">ethnographies.health.2018@gmai<wbr>l.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ethnographies.health.2018@gmail.com" target="_blank">ethnographies.health.2<wbr>018@gmail.com</a>><mailto:<a href="mailto:ethnographies.health.2018@gmail.com" target="_blank">ethnogra<wbr>phies.health.2018@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ethnographies.health.2018@gmail.com" target="_blank">ethnographies.health.2<wbr>018@gmail.com</a>>>, no later than the 30th June and should not exceed 250 words, excluding title. Please also include your title, your position and institution, and pick out 3-5 key words or phrases (not included in the word count) to focus our attention to themes and issues you are most interested in discussing. We will notify you if your abstract is successful by the end of July.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><a name="_MailAutoSig"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt">Dr Alfonso Del Percio</span></b></a><span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br>
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