We are delighted to invite speaker submissions for our SLS funded workshop entitled ‘Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law: New Spaces, Temporalities and Actors’. The event will be held at Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University on 19th June 2024.
The workshop will explore the shifting landscape of medical law as a discipline, from one which is focused on static analysis of legal doctrine to one which is attentive to the different spatial, temporal and agential dynamics which influence the way the law operates in practice. Through this workshop, we seek to explore the current research that is engaging with medical law in this more dynamic way and offer the space to carefully consider what this means for the field We are also interested in exploring the innovative methodologies which are being used to invite new voices into medical law.
Confirmed speakers include Dr Fae Garland (University of Manchester), Dr Zaina Mahmoud (University of Liverpool), Professor Emilie Cloatre (University of Kent), Dr Ruth Fletcher, (QMUL) and Professor Sharifah Sekalala (University of Warwick).
The following suggestions are not exhaustive. If you think that your work fits within one of the following categories, broadly defined, then we are interested! Please clearly indicate which of the three panels (spaces, temporalities, actors) your paper fits within.
SPACES
- Healthcare in prison or immigration detention centres
- Healthcare at the roadside or in the ambulance
- The provision of care in the home
TEMPORALITIES
- The malleable nature of ‘emergency’
- Challenging the dominance of linearity
- The role of time in shaping the childbirth experience
ACTORS
- The role of interpreters and translators in healthcare
- The role of at-home carers
- The increasing role of pharmacists to deliver community healthcare
Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words by 8th December 2023 to [email protected]. We will ask speakers to send over a short paper (1000-2000 words) in advance of the workshop to maximise critical engagement with the ideas and meaningful discussion on the day.
The workshop will be held in person. If there are any adjustments that you require in order to attend this event, do let us know and we will do our best to accommodate these.
We are able to offer a small number of travel and accommodation bursaries for PGRs who do not have funding from their own institution, and also a small number of bursaries to support the attendance of those caring responsibilities. If you would like to apply for either of these, please state this when submitting your abstract.
