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Oxford Institute of Population Ageing Dataset Workshop, June 2012

Friday 27 April 2012 ▶
This two day workshop will feature:
  • Presentations by experts from leading datasets
  • The opportunity to network with international colleagues
  • The chance to participate in smaller tailor made seminars and discussion groups.
  • Opportunity to collaborate on future projects and share information
  • Exposure to the historic city of Oxford and the University
More details...

21st Century Body Symposium, UCL, May 2012

Friday 27 April 2012 ▶
What does it mean to be human in the 21st Century? In what ways is this question affected by new forms of technologies, such as biometrics or the evolution of genetic and neuroscience technologies? Are our perceptions of human identity being recast in the light of these new scientific and technological developments? Are there, or should there be limits in what we can or should do to ourselves and our bodies? How and what does it mean to grow old now that the health and capacity of humans has been stretched for the over 50 population?More details...

Infomercial for Evidence-based Bioethics: RSM Meeting, June 2012

Thursday 26 April 2012 ▶
Evidence-based bioethics: A myth or a reality?

The RSM Open Section are delighted to announce that Professor Daniel Sulmasy, member of the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, will be delivering the keynote lecture on Evidence-based bioethics.More details...

Sociology of Medical Screening Monograph Launch Event, September 2012, Leicester

Wednesday 25 April 2012 ▶
The Sociology of Medical Screening Critical Perspectives; New Directions
(18th Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph)
Launch event - Tuesday 4th September 2012
John Foster Hall, University of LeicesterMore details...

Lecture by Professor Vern Bengtson

Monday 23 April 2012 ▶
Please join us for a special lecture at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, on Wednesday 9th May 2012

"Does religiosity increase with death? Aging and cohort effects in a 35-year study" by Professor Vern BengtsonMore details...

CFP: Social Science in Public Health, September 2012, Cambridge

Monday 23 April 2012 ▶
Call for Papers: One Day Symposium

TITLE: Beyond ‘Them’ and ‘Us’? Enacting social science within the public health research agenda on chronic illness

Tuesday 18 September 2012. Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

Keynote Speakers: Professor David Armstrong, King’s College London; Professor Rose Barbour, Open UniversityMore details...

Invitation to an IKON Distinguished Speakers Seminar

Thursday 05 April 2012 ▶
"Anthropotechnics - Practising the improbable" with Professor Rick Iedema (University of Technology, Sydney)

We are delighted to announce that Professor Rick Iedema will be visiting IKON from 23-28 April following the award of one of the coveted IAS Visiting Fellowships for 2012.More details...

Using Video for Engaging Healthcare (and Other) Professionals in Reflexive Practice Improvement, April 2012, Warwick

Wednesday 04 April 2012 ▶
International Workshop, University of Warwick, IKON/IoH Joint Event, Supported by IASMore details...

Rights and Responsibilities: Global Perspectives, June 2012, Sussex

Tuesday 03 April 2012 ▶
The PhD community at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology would like to invite doctoral students to participate in our inaugural PhD conference: Rights and Responsibilities: Global Perspectives, 14 June 2012.More details...

Audio/Video research of clinical workplace based learning, Seminar, May 2012, Cardiff

Friday 16 March 2012 ▶
Are you presently undertaking audio/video research in clinical workplace learning environments? Are you planning to undertake such work? If so, you may be interested in a seminar day to be held at Cardiff University.
More details...

Open Secrets: Barriers to Medical Knowledge, March 2012, London

Wednesday 14 March 2012 ▶
Event Reminder: Limited number of place available for A ROUNDTABLE ON: Open Secrets: Barriers to Medical Knowledge in the Global EconomyMore details...

Virtual Conference: Fukushima - Looking back to look forward, March 2012

Thursday 08 March 2012 ▶
On the one-year anniversary of the triple disasters that devastated eastern Japan we welcome you to participate in an interdisciplinary online conversation, taking place 11-12 March 2012.More details...

Evidence-based bioethics: A myth or a reality? RSM Meeting, June, London

Wednesday 07 March 2012 ▶
The RSM Open Section are delighted to announce that Professor Daniel Sulmasy, member of the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, will be delivering the keynote lecture on Evidence-based bioethics.More details...

CPCS Forums, March 2012, Kent

Wednesday 07 March 2012 ▶
Birth Place Decisions: how women and their partners make sense of risk and uncertainty when planning where to give birth.More details...

Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust, September 2012, Norrköping, Sweden

Wednesday 07 March 2012 ▶
Both Leonardo da Vinci and John Constable claimed that painting is a science. This science has been explored extensively in traditional aesthetics and art history.More details...

BSA Ageing, Body and Society Conference, July 2012, London

Tuesday 06 March 2012 ▶
Call for Papers - BSA Ageing, Body and Society Conference. Critical Perspectives, Future ChallengesMore details...

British Academy Conference: Modelling for Policy, May 2012, London

Tuesday 06 March 2012 ▶
How well models and computational techniques produce evidence to predict and manage infectious disease risks? This conference discusses what kinds of tools models and computational techniques are when used within public health policy-making processes.More details...

Call for Abstracts: Aging in a Changing World - April 2 Deadline!

Monday 05 March 2012 ▶
The Canadian Association on Gerontology is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for “Aging in a Changing World,” our 41st Annual Scientific & Educational Meeting (ASEM). More details...

Qualitative Research Methods courses at University of Oxford

Monday 05 March 2012 ▶
The Health Experiences Research Group, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford is delighted with the response to our courses in qualitative research methods this year. While our Analysing Qualitative Interview and Introduction to Focus Groups courses are fully booked ahead of schedule, there are still a few places remaining in  other courses.More details...

North West MedSoc Speaker Meeting: Prof. Gareth Williams

Friday 02 March 2012 ▶
The next North West Medical Sociology Group event is a presentation by Professor Gareth Williams, Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences - 'Reflections on the Sociology of Health and Illness'
More details...

Barriers to Medical Knowledge in the Global Economy, March 2012, London

Monday 27 February 2012 ▶
The past five years have seen an explosion of initiatives intended to improve access to clinical trial data. In the US, recent legislation has made it mandatory for companies to disclose unpublished trials. The WHO has launched an international clinical trial registry platform improving voluntary trial registration.More details...

3rd Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Suffering, November 2012, Salzburg, Austria

Friday 24 February 2012 ▶
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore if, or to what extent, meaning can be found in suffering.More details...

Reproductive rights, pregnancy and childbirth, March 2012, London

Thursday 23 February 2012 ▶
The Forum on Maternity & the Newborn is pleased to announce their upcoming meeting: Reproductive rights, pregnancy and childbirthMore details...

Rhodri Hayward - 'Ulcers, cortisol and the remaking of modern Britain', March 2012, London

Wednesday 22 February 2012 ▶
From the early 1930s psychology, psychiatry and neurophysiology populated the world with a novel collection of concepts and objects - such as the 'anxiety neuroses', the 'unconscious', 'nervous ulcers', 'cortisol', 'stress' and 'lifestyle' -  that allowed emotions, selfhood and social relationships to be described in new ways. More details...

Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease - Research Dissemination Event, March 2012, Birmingham

Tuesday 21 February 2012 ▶
Sociology has provided a fresh perspective on some of the key issues in prevention of heart disease. These include attitudes towards lifestyle and its effect on health, responses to health checks or screening and lay epidemiology.More details...

Symposium on patient and public involvement, May 2012, Leicester

Monday 20 February 2012 ▶
You are warmly invited to a symposium on the future of patient and public involvement in health care. This free one-day event will provide a forum for hearing new ideas, sharing knowledge and forging networks with other service users, health-care professionals and academics interested in patient and public participation.More details...

BSA Annual Conference 2012, Sociology in an Age of Austerity, April 2012, Leeds

Friday 17 February 2012 ▶
The theme of the British Sociological Association's Annual Conference in 2012 is 'Sociology in an Age of Austerity'. Wednesday 11th - Friday 13th April. University of Leeds.More details...

Reproduction on Film: 'Monstrosity', Feb-Mar 2012, Cambridge

Friday 10 February 2012 ▶
Throughout the 20th century, films used the monstrous to explore concerns about intervention and normality. This second series of 'Reproduction on Film' presents works featuring various artificial and natural monsters, examining anxieties about science, sex, relationships, parenthood and social marginalisation.More details...

The Society for Social Medicine’s 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, September 2012, London

Wednesday 08 February 2012 ▶
The Society for Social Medicine’s 56th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM)
will be held in London from Wednesday 12th September until
Friday 14th September 2012.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: DEADLINE: 19th March 2012, 23.59 GMTMore details...

Dying in the Digital Age Conference, June 2012, Bath

Wednesday 08 February 2012 ▶
The University of Bath's Centre for Death & Society (CDAS) announces
its 2012 summer conference.More details...

Formulating Policy Recommendations, February 2012, London

Friday 03 February 2012 ▶
We have a handful of places left on our upcoming Formulating Policy Recommendations course to be held in central London on 29th February.More details...

UCL Sociology Network Spring Seminars

Thursday 02 February 2012 ▶
This is to alert colleagues and students to the Network's spring seminar programme. Do please join us and put the dates in your diary early.More details...

The Fourth US-UK Medical Sociology Conference, June 2012, Belfast

Wednesday 01 February 2012 ▶
Registration is now open for The FOURTH UK-US MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY CONFERENCE which will be held from June 14-16 at Queen’s University in Belfast.More details...

North East Medsoc Group Launch Event, March 2012, Durham

Tuesday 31 January 2012 ▶
The North East Medical Sociology group would like to invite you to attend a half-day launch event on the 8th March 2012, at Trevelyan College, Durham.More details...

Lent Lecture Series 2012, London

Tuesday 31 January 2012 ▶
Announcing the Lent Lecture Series 2012 of The Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London. There is no charge to attend the lectures. All are welcome.More details...

Multidsiciplinary Workshop: Human Enhancement in clinical practice, March 2012, London

Thursday 26 January 2012 ▶
The ethics of human enhancement are a concern in clinical practice – Myth or Reality?

15th March 2012, KCL Medical School, London BridgeMore details...

ESHMS Conference, August 2012

Wednesday 25 January 2012 ▶
The deadline for abstract submission has now been extended to 29th February 2012.

The European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) will be holding their next conference from Thursday 30th August to Saturday 1st September 2012 in Hannover, Germany. The theme of the conference is 'Health inequalities over the life course'.More details...

Pills In Practice: Is Abortion & Contraception Policy Meeting Womens Needs?

Monday 16 January 2012 ▶
Women in Britain generally receive free and timely access to abortion, contraception and emergency contraception. These are important and welcome developments. But do they go far enough? This one-day public conference, organised by British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) in London on Friday 11 May 2012, brings together clinicians, academics, advocates and service providers from the UK, Europe and the USA to discuss the future of abortion and contraception in Britain.More details...

BSA Presidential Event: Sociology, Suffering & Humanitarianism, February 2012, London

Wednesday 11 January 2012 ▶
This BSA Presidential event is dedicated to the ongoing attempt to
devise a sociological account of causes and consequences of human
suffering. It also aims to cultivate a broad-ranging debate over the
role of humanitarianism within our culture and the vocation of sociology
itself.More details...

London Medsoc Group 2012 Programme

Friday 06 January 2012 ▶
Everyone is welcome to attend LMSG meetings. The group has no formal membership.  At each meeting there is a presentation by a speaker, followed by discussion that continues over drinks (and perhaps a meal) in a local pub.More details...

Weight and body size in the clinic, February 2012, Manchester

Wednesday 04 January 2012 ▶
A joint meeting of the North West Health Psychology Research Network & North West Medical Sociology Study Group.More details...

Qualitative Research Methods courses at University of Oxford 2012

Wednesday 04 January 2012 ▶
The Health Experiences Research Group, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford is delighted to offer the following programme of qualitative research methods courses in 2012.More details...

Social Theory & Health 2012 Annual Lecture, February 2012, London

Tuesday 20 December 2011 ▶
We are pleased to announce the Social Theory & Health 2012 Annual lecture for which there is an open invitation.More details...

Using Sociology To Help Prevent Cardiovascular Disease, March 2012, Birmingham

Monday 19 December 2011 ▶
Preventing cardiovascular disease has become a major public health priority, with initiatives in place such as offering smoking cessation and ‘health checks for all those over 40 in primary care, and monitoring risk factors in this population.More details...

Aging in a Changing World, October 2012, Vancouver, Canada

Monday 19 December 2011 ▶
Aging in a Changing World: Save the Date!
41st Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting
Canadian Association on Gerontology (http://www.cagacg.ca)More details...

‘The 21st Century Body’, Symposium, 18th May 2012, London

Friday 16 December 2011 ▶
Exciting developments in the life sciences and their application in biotechnology are helping to provide pioneering cures and therapies for inherited and degenerative diseases. Consider genomics and genetic based therapies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, ICT implants and prosthetics, nanomedicine and care of the ageing and you will see how the way in which we perceive ourselves and those around us is slowly being recast.More details...

The European Society of Health and Medical Sociology Conference (ESHMS)

Thursday 08 December 2011 ▶
The European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) will be holding their next conference from Thursday 30th August to Saturday 1st September 2012 in Hannover, Germany.  The theme of the conference is 'Health inequalities over the life course'.More details...

2nd Global Conference - Making Sense of: Chronicity, August 2012

Monday 05 December 2011 ▶
2nd Global Conference - Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health, Illness and Disease Project

Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September 2012, Mansfield College, Oxford, United KingdomMore details...

Open Courses in Social Research Methods and Practise

Monday 05 December 2011 ▶
I am delighted to announce our spring programme of open courses in social research methods and practise. Kick off 2012 by strengthening and expanding your research capability on one of our short modules or talk to us about designing a tailored course for your team, delivered on site at a time that suits you.More details...

Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism Conference, May 2012

Saturday 03 December 2011 ▶
This Two-Day international conference will bring together
professionals from all over the world to discuss the latest trends
and opportunities in medical tourism and global healthcare.More details...

Open Letter to the European Commission on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities

Friday 18 November 2011 ▶
With this message we would like to invite you to sign an Open Letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation (http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/), alerting her to the vital insights that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) contribute to address Europe's and the world's Grand Societal Challenges.More details...

Wellcome/IME-funded places at Feb 1st 2012 Primary Care Ethics Conference

Wednesday 16 November 2011 ▶
I am pleased to announce that we now have funding for 30 delegates and 10 Medical Students (separate fund) for the 2nd RSM Primary Care Ethics Conference in association with the RCGP, supported by the IME and Wellcome Trust on February 1st 2012More details...

BSA Happiness Study Group, Day Conference

Wednesday 09 November 2011 ▶
The British Sociological Association Happiness Study Group invites social scientists to submit abstracts for their forthcoming day conference that aims to explore the theoretical and methodological challenges facing the sociological study of happiness.More details...

Qualitative Research Methods courses at University of Oxford 2012

Tuesday 08 November 2011 ▶
The Health Experiences Research Group, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford is delighted to announce its programme of qualitative research methods courses for 2012.More details...

University of Oxford Short Courses

Wednesday 26 October 2011 ▶
The University of Oxford have 5 short courses running over the coming months.
More details...

International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare: Solutions for Tough Times

Monday 24 October 2011 ▶
We would like to invite you to join 3,000 of your colleagues at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare in Paris.

Our theme for 2012 – Solutions for Tough Times – continues to build upon previous Forums' commitment to excellent, safe and affordable healthcare.More details...

Syposium - Pharmaceuticals and Society: Power, Promises & Prospects

Monday 03 October 2011 ▶
This one day symposium aims to bring together a range of researchers in medical sociology and STS to take stock and critically examine, from a variety of different perspectives, the role of pharmaceuticals in society and the nature and dynamics of pharmaceutical futures. More details...

Keynote speakers confirmed for BSA Annual Conference

Wednesday 28 September 2011 ▶
The 2012 annual conference promises to be dynamic, fiery, informative,
and is definitely not to be missed. Bettering our 60th anniversary
conference this year will be a challenge, but we're determined we can
make it happen.

Submit your abstract by 7th October.More details...

MSo at the MedSoc Conference 2011

Thursday 11 August 2011 ▶
Come and meet members of the new MSo Editorial Team at the MedSoc Conference.More details...

BSA Medical Sociology Group 43rd Annual Conference 2011

Monday 01 August 2011 ▶
The BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference will take place at the University of Chester, from 14 - 16 September 2011.
More details...