Register for the Phenomenology of Health and Relationships Conference.

 

THEME: Feeling and Being Understood.

WHERE: Fazeley Studios, Birmingham, UK.

WHEN: Thursday 6th and Friday 7th February 2025.

 

The Phenomenology of Health and Relationships (PHaR) group at Aston University are delighted to announce that we will be hosting our second conference in 2025. The conference theme will be Feeling and Being Understood. 

 

Program:

 

Day 1, Thursday 6th February will be workshop focused:

 

Will Day - Photovoice, with and without the voice: combining collaging, phenomenology and photographs.

Rachel Temple, Michael Larkin, and colleagues from the young persons' Agency-in-Practice team - Dialogical Co-analysis: a new methodology for conducting qualitative analysis with young people as co-researchers.

Mikołaj Zarzycki, Shioma-Lei Craythorne & Kisane Prutton - applying Polyphonic Photo Analysis in phenomenological research.

Invited discussion: Lisa Bortolotti - Epistemic injustice, agency, and youth mental health.

Nathan Thomas - Understanding Experience using a Narrative Variation of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (NIPA).

Invited discussion: Zoë Boden Stuart - Medications and care: a reflexive workshop exploring embodiment, spatiality and meaning.

Day 2 Friday 7th February will be largely in conference format:

 

Parallel 'clinics'

The PHaR team-  IPA clinics: If you have an IPA work-in-progress that could use some troubleshooting, let us know when you register that you would like to book a consultation slot with one of our experienced IPA researchers.

 

Mini-workshops -

Charlie Gunn - A better recipe: collaborative, accessible study design and participant information through the use of edible and creative methodologies when working with vulnerable participants.

Laura Martin - The use of creative prompts to support an IPA interview.

Julie Kane - Exploring the experience of community and mental health through zines: contributing to a sense of belonging for young people.

 

Works-in-progress -

Sarah Coldwell - Exploring experiences of Post-traumatic Growth following a diagnosis of Motor-Neuron Disease (MND): An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Jess Webster - From Lego-balancing to Information Sharing – how do you make the jump?

 

Invited discussion:

Jo Billington & Shioma-Lei Craythorne - Adapting IPA to work inclusively with diverse ways of being. 

 

Talks

Ainhoa Rodriguez-Muguruza & Arantza Etxebarria-Agiriano - The concept of “Relational Health”: How menstruating bodies are key for understanding health.

Michael Larkin - Finding an ethical and just way forward for phenomenologically-informed qualitative research in psychology.

Penny Priest - From Outsight to Team Of One: engaging phenomenology to communicate psychological theory through fiction.

Sally Latham - Narrative therapy and the falsehood objection.

Jodie Russell - Intersectional invisibility and its impact on belongingness and being understood.

 

Registration 

Please click through to the registration portal here:

https://store.aston.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/health-and-life-sciences/lhs-conferences

 

Accommodation

Conference registration will not include accommodation, but we can circulate details of convenient accommodation upon request.

 

Further details

We will post updates on:
Bluesky: @ipanalysis
Email: ipaqualitative@groups.io

Blogger: http://astonphar.blogspot.com/

Enquiries

Please email phar-aston@outlook.com