International Society of Critical Health Psychology
7th Biennial Conference

 
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April 18-20th, 2011
Adelaide, South Australia

ADVANCING CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

The 7th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) was held at the University of Adelaide on Monday 18th - Wednesday 20th April, 2011.

Please visit the ISCHP website here.

One response to the conference included: http://tonywarne.blogspot.com/2011_04_24_archive.html

We were delighted to include Professor Raewyn Connell , Professor Pat Dudgeon and Associate Professor Rosemary Du Plessis as keynote speakers.

Professor Pat Dudgeon's keynote address prompted strong responses, including this article, "Look into racism and you will find race privilege" by poet, writer and scholar, Karlo Mila. We were lucky enough to have Karlo give us a reading of her work at the conference.

We also ran a series of four excellent workshops for postgraduate students and other interested researchers on Sunday 17th April, 2011. These workshops were run by:

• Neil Drew, Darrin Hodgetts, Mohi Rua and Shiloh Groot 
• Pat Dudgeon, Malcolm Fialho and Yvonne Clark  
• Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter
• Barbara Schneider

More information about these workshops is available here.

About the conference

The ISCHP conference provides a vibrant opportunity for health psychologists and scholars from related disciplines to explore ongoing and emerging issues in critical theory and practice in relation to health and health care. Attendance is therefore welcomed from scholars in any discipline with a critical orientation to the field of health. The conference also particularly welcomes and encourages students and emerging researchers.

The conference includes an engaging intellectual program and plenty of opportunity for social activities.

To read the latest ISCHP newsletter, including reports on the 2009 conference, click here.

Our next conference will be held in 2013 at the University of Bradford in the UK!

Conference themes

We include presentations on any topic or theme that takes a critical stance on any aspect of health or health care. At the same time, we broadly organised the 2011 conference around five key themes:

• Time: health and health care in relation to life-events and life-stages, including child and family health
• Place: health and health care in relation to the different politics, economics and social geographies of location, including, especially, the impact of colonisation (i.e., upon Indigenous health), migration and transition 
• Face: health and health care in relation to subjectivities and identities, including those relating to gender, sexuality and embodiment 
• Governmentality: health and, especially, health care in relation to strategies of social control, including rhetorics of ‘choice', ‘risk', ‘freedom' and ‘consumption' 
• Methods and methodology: exploring alternative and innovative ways of conducting research in the pursuit of critical interpretations of health and health care