Dear colleagues,
Im delighted to announce an application-only early-career workshop on:
Mental Health Policy and Social Science Practice: Enhancing Engagement and
Expertise. This will take place in Edinburgh city centre on the 22nd March
2018. The speakers will be: Diana Rose (Professor of User-led Research, KCL),
Chris OSullivan (Head of Business Development and Engagement, Mental Health
Foundation) and Norman Lamb (former Care Minister and current Chair of the
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, House of Commons).
The schedule for the day is as follows:
10.00 Registration
10.30 Workshop
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Arrival of Norman Lamb MP (talk and Q&A)
14.15 Poster display and informal discussion with Lamb
15.00 Registration for public panel discussion [ECR workshop attendees will be
automatically registered]
15.15 Public panel discussion with Rose, OSullivan and Lamb
17.00 Drinks and canaps
18.00 Close
The workshop is open to 20 ECRs (i.e. PhD students and recent postdoctoral
scholars), who are requested to bring posters about their work in order to
facilitate speaker feedback.
The ECR event is funded by the British Academy, via a Rising Star Engagement
Award; the public panel discussion is sponsored by the Wellcome Trust.
Potential ECR attendees should send a copy of their CV and a short description
of their work to
martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk by the 20th
February. Some funds to facilitate attendance are available; should an
applicant wish to apply for a bursary, please detail travel costs and any
other sources of funding in the application letter.
Id be very grateful if you could please circulate this message to any
(post-)doctoral researchers who might be interested in attending. A flyer is
available here: http://www.crfr.ac.uk/assets/MP-flyer.pdf
Thank you very much!
All best wishes,
Martyn
Dr Martyn Pickersgill I Wellcome Trust Reader in Social Studies of
Biomedicine I Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics I
Edinburgh Medical School I University of Edinburgh I
http://edin.ac/1Vgw0xR I https://twitter.com/PickersgillM
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
___
EASST's Eurograd mailing list
Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net
Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net
Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst
Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.net
