iMean8: Language and Care
Save the Date:
23-26 June 2027
Location:
神马福利影片, Coventry, United Kingdom
We welcome contributions that engage with:
- Primary healthcare, secondary healthcare, community care
- Emergency care - first responses (including fire and police), humanitarian response (in conflict zones, natural disasters), urgent care, critical and intensive care, dispatch
- Wellbeing - mental and social wellbeing, (workforce) resilience, agency, (emotional) self-regulation, social connectedness
- Social care - counselling
- Identity
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, those listed below:
- technology: telehealth, remote communication; AI-driven communication tools; accessibility in digital health platforms; online communities
- access, (care) advocacy; vulnerable populations, marginalised populations; Global South
- age and care
- discourses/narratives of care and caring
- multilingualism and care
- policy, regulations, legislation, assessments, audit approaches, guidelines
- co-production, research translation, education and training, public engagement, stakeholder engagement
- health ideologies, stigma, social representations, empowerment discourse, health messaging, traditional and modern understanding of health and wellbeing
- methodologies, approaches: arts-based, discourse, ethnographic