Message posted on 28/06/2018
Call for ECR abstracts ‘Social norms and health: critique, evaluation and justification’ workshop, Edinburgh September 6th and 7th 2018
Dear Colleagues, <br> <br> <br>As part of the Wellcome funded Liminal Spaces project, Agomoni Ganguli Mitra <br>and I are organising a workshop on social norms and health in Edinburgh 6-7 <br>September 2018. We are now putting out a call for abstracts from early career <br>researchers who are working on topics related to health and social norms. <br> <br>This is an exciting opportunity for ECRS from a range of disciplines <br>(including but not limited to bioethics, law, public health, sociology and <br>STS) and we would be grateful if you could circulate it widely amongst all <br>relevant research networks. <br> <br>Please do not hesitate to get in touch if your require further information, <br>Regards, <br> <br> <br>Ago and Isabel <br> <br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br>---------------------------------------- <br> <br>We invite abstracts from early career researchers for 15 minute presentations <br>at our Social norms and health: critique, evaluation and justification <br>workshop, to be held in Edinburgh September 6th and 7th 2018. <br> <br>A key aim of this event is to create interdisciplinary dialogue to develop new <br>ways of working with social norms, and so we request that all participants <br>attend both days. Funding is available to cover the cost of accommodation and <br>travel (within the UK) for those ECRs whose abstracts are accepted. <br> <br> <br> <br>The submission deadline is July 27th 2018. Prospective participants are kindly <br>requested to submit an abstract of max. 250 words to the following email <br>address: I.Fletcher@ed.ac.uk. <br> <br> <br> <br>Social norms and health: critique, evaluation and justification <br> <br>Overview <br> <br>Social norms act as extra-legal mechanisms or social conventions that steer <br>and reinforce attitudes and choices in a variety of social spheresincluding <br>healthacting against, or in tandem with law, regulation and policy. Engaging <br>with norms and understanding their operation is vital, given the urgency of <br>health problems that are driven by human practices, and because health <br>policies, both in the domestic and international arena, are themselves often <br>aimed at changing norms and behaviour. While there has been considerable work <br>on this area within social science, continued interdisciplinary dialogue is <br>required develop constructive and justified approaches to critiquing and <br>changing social norms. We contend that in order to adequately address a number <br>of challenges in global health and wellbeing, it is necessary to develop <br>sophisticated and normatively sound mechanisms to evaluate and govern social <br>norms in health policy, practice and activism. <br> <br>Existing mechanisms for behaviour modification including incentives, nudges, <br>and technological fixes - often lack both normative rigour and moral <br>legitimacy. They might also further reinforce problematic norms, or eschew <br>ethics in favour of efficiency, for example by reinforcing gender <br>discrimination or further stigmatising overweight individuals. Just as <br>problematically, such approaches often shift the burden onto individuals for <br>what should either be collective change - in socially condoned gender <br>discrimination, for example - or that should be driven via long-term policy <br>change in sectors beyond health, such as shifting agricultural subsidies to <br>improve access to healthy food. <br> <br>If we are to address norms with the goal of improving global health, we need <br>to develop a shared account of norms and their operation, one that can align <br>both efficacy and moral legitimacy. Our hypothesis is that this can be done by <br>appealing to considerations of justice, by focussing on collectives over <br>individuals, and by shifting a larger part of the moral burden onto groups, <br>institutions, practices and policies. We suggest that further exploring norms <br>can help us understand how certain behaviours and attitudes are reinforced or <br>altered. In doing so, we are pulling away from the idea of the ideal, <br>rational, homo economicus that many policies and guidelines tend to address, <br>and further exploring how socially embedded individuals choose and act within <br>their particular contexts. <br> <br> <br>Draft Programme <br> <br>Day One <br> <br>Arrival and welcome <br>Session One: Concepts and mechanisms <br>Lunchtime <br>Session Two: Norms and Health <br>Coffee break <br>Session Three: Norms and Diet <br>Conference Dinner <br> <br>Day Two <br> <br>Session Four: Norms and Gender <br>Session Five: Norms, behaviour change and inequality: new approaches <br>Coffee break <br>Session Six: Final Roundtable and Future Steps <br>Lunch <br> <br> <br>Isabel Fletcher PhD <br>Senior Research Fellow (Medical Sociology) <br>Liminal Spaces Project <br>The Mason Institute <br>Edinburgh Law School <br>Old College <br>South Bridge <br>Edinburgh EH8 9YL <br> <br>Email: I.Fletcher@ed.ac.uk <br>Tel: 0131 651 4792 <br> <br>[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pdf which had a name of Norms_ECR call_28.6.pdf] <br>The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in <br>Scotland, with registration number SC005336. <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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