Call for Papers:

Starting this October, we (Andrea Vaughan, Sinead Jackson and Zsofia Demjen) are re-launching the UCL Health Communication Network as a space where UCL researchers (students and staff) can connect and find out about each other’s work across faculties.

To this end, we are organising a programme of monthly lunchtime seminars where people present current/ongoing/just finished/just starting work in 15-20min informal presentations followed by discussion and chat. The seminars will be in-person, but also live-streamed for those who can’t be there, and take place on a Thursday 1-2pm. The first three dates are 13^th October, 17^th November, and 15^th December, with more dates coming from January onwards.

We are delighted that we already have presenters for 13^th October and 15^th December. The range of topics include: language and suicidal ideation, metaphor use in alcohol use disorder, language guidelines for adverse gestational events, conversation analysis and communication disorders – details coming soon!

Please get in touch with Zsofia Demjen if you would be up for sharing your work with the group at one of our sessions. We’d like to host two speakers per seminar, and would be interested in analysis, ideas, approaches, etc. at all stages of development.

We are looking forward to getting to know the breadth of health communications research across UCL!

UCL, represented by the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, is becoming one of only two UK institutions to join the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH), currently based at the Australian National University.

IC4CH promotes interdisciplinary health communication research and the application of research findings to healthcare practice and education internationally. More in this short video:

If you’re interested in playing an active part in the UCL side of things, get in touch with Zsófia Demjén.