School of Health and Social Care Seminar Series 2010-2011: Intersectionality – Theory and Practice for Quality Improvement in Healthcare

On Wednesday 20th October  Prof Janneke Van Mens-Verhulst (University of Utrecht) will present: “Improving health and social care with an intersectional approach to diversity.”

The seminar will take place between 12:00 and 13:30 in room: ARM201, Architecture Building, Brayford Pool.

This is the first of a new international series of seminars in the SH&SC organised by Dr Zowie Davy and supported by the Foundation for Sociology of Health & Illness.

The subject of the series is Intersectionality: Theory and Practice for Quality Improvement in Healthcare (Seminar Series Poster 2010).

This themed seminar series intends to bring together scholars, practitioners and activists who are working with feminist Intersectionality theory and feminist ethics in healthcare. The seminars will illustrate how intersectional approaches to healthcare can make an important contribution to knowledge and practice, which is crucial if quality improvement is to promote greater equity of healthcare provision provision. The speakers will be. looking at theoretical, institutional, methodological and ‘case study study’ approaches that speak to the multiplicity of voices who access/provide healthcare.

Wed 20th Oct 2010 Prof Janneke Van Mens-Verhulst (University of Utrecht) “Improving health and social care with an intersectional approach to diversity”

Wed 16th Feb 2011 Dr Jo Gilmartin (University of Leeds) “The impact of reconstructive surgery following massive weight loss on patients’ quality of life”

Wed 16th Mar 2011 Dr Ruth Deery (University of Huddersfield)

Wed 13th Apr 2011 Prof Nancy Harding (University of Bradford)

Wed 18th May 2011 Dr Ulrike Klöppel (Charité University, Berlin)

Please note: Prof. Van Mens-Verhulst’s seminar will be from 12:00-13.30, all other seminars will be from 13:30-14:45

ALL WELCOME Please RSVP your interest to: zdavy@lincoln.ac.uk

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