The School of Nursing and Midwifery is pleased to announce a new series of seminars open to continuing professional education and postgraduate students from across the faculty, as well as interested staff and other individuals.
The seminars will aim to support the faculty's scholarly community and to foster a shared creative and questioning environment for our students. Students will be able to nominate future speakers, staff can nominate other staff, and students can make presentations of their own.
The intention is for the seminars to take place on a monthly basis on Wednesdays at 4.30pm.
The first seminar will be held on Wednesday 5 October 2011 at 4.30pm in Westlain House, Falmer (room to be displayed on screen in the Westlain House foyer):
Dr Alec Grant – Dialogical Narrative Inquiry (DNI)
Your chance to consider and discuss what DNI promises as a qualitative approach, firmly grounded in the relational ethics of Bakhtin and Frank, in relation to an ongoing research project
The second seminar in the series will be held on Wednesday 2 November 2011 at 4.30pm in Westlain House, Falmer (room to be displayed on screen in the Westlain House foyer)
Carol Williams – Food and Health – snapshot of the bigger picture
Carol will present a snapshot of the global challenges facing public health nutrition today, from the emergency in East Africa to the 45,000 items to choose from in the supermarket, with a discussion on what it means for those involved in giving dietary advice today.
The third session will be held on Wednesday 7 December 2011 at 4.30pm in Westlain House, Falmer (room to be displayed on screen in the Westlain House foyer):
Dr Chris Cocking – Collective resilience versus collective vulnerability after disasters – a social psychological perspective
Traditional accounts of the psychological impact of disasters argue that those affected by disasters are vulnerable to mass panic and psychological trauma in their aftermath. However, this notion of vulnerability is not supported by evidence from studies of behaviour during emergencies, and a wealth of research suggests instead that communities affected by disasters are more likely to show collective resilience than vulnerability. The Social Identity Model of Collective Resilience argues that this is because disasters create a common identity through a sense of shared fate which encourages co-operative rather than selfish behaviour.
The fourth session will be held on Wednesday 1 February 2011 at 4.30pm in Westlain House, Falmer (room to be displayed on screen in the Westlain House foyer):
Professor Val Hall – The avatar will see you now: health and education for the 21st century? Download event flyer (pdf 96Kb)
If you wish to attend, please contact Dr Alec Grant, A.Grant@brighton.ac.uk
We look forward to your interest and participation.
