Events from the 01 January 2023 - 31 December 2023 Reset
Adverse environmental exposures during the life course, in particular air pollution, are crucial to brain health, including cognitive function, mental health and dementia.
28 June 2023
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Lindisfarne Centre
Long-term pain from whatever reasons affects over 14 million people throughout the UK. Reliance on medication, including opioids, is the mainstay of management and is proving harmful to health for many. The overall aim of the GOTT 10-footsteps to live well with pain self-management project is to equip healthcare staff and other practitioners such as social prescribers who work to support people with persistent pain at a foundational level with fundamental knowledge and skills.
30 June 2023
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lindisfarne Centre, Durham City
Solitude – time that we do not interact with other people – can feel very differently depending on who you ask.
05 July 2023
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
The tendency of rhetorical studies is towards analysis of speaker and/or message. Here we undertake a message/audience Aristotelian genre-based analysis of Clap for Carers (CfC) the UK COVID-19 public tribute.
06 July 2023
Lindisfarne Centre, St Aiden‘s College and Hybrid (zoom)
This award-winning presentation starts as a narrative of a young footballer growing up in the late 1980’s-early 1990’s, in the North East of England. It outlines the highs and lows of a footballer that didn’t quite ‘make it’, with reflection on how the effects of isolation, rejection and failure contributed to, and escalated to almost two decades of undiagnosed mental illness.
13 July 2023
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Lindisfarne Centre, Durham
Alzheimer’s disease is a complex neurological disorder and the most common form of dementia. Currently, there are no fully approved diagnosis and treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
28 July 2023
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hybrid event - TLC129, Teaching and Learning Centre and Zoom
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Bombay was in the midst of an ongoing epidemic of Yersinia pestis that killed thousands annually.
11 October 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College, Durham City
Part of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Guest Lecture Series 2023/24 Although mental health features prominently in contemporary discourse about human health and wellbeing, there are still critical gaps in historical accounts of twentieth-century psychiatry, related disciplines that led to the adoption of the broader concept of “mental healthcare”, as well as the spaces and places that supported these.
25 October 2023
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) that is looking to meet other researchers with an interest in health and wellbeing (broadly construed)?
27 October 2023
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Bar Lounge, Business School
Buildings shelter from rain, wind, heat and cold, provide sufficient space, and meet other requirements to serve their purpose. Whether a building achieves this can often be quantified and measured, and thus determined objectively.
08 November 2023
Online - Zoom
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