Wellcome Trust Centre Roadshow (Penryn)

What is the event about?

We are hosting four roadshows to formally launch the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. The newly established Centre follows a £4m Wellcome Centre award received in December 2016. You can see the full details in the research news article.

The roadshows will provide an opportunity to:

• Meet members of the Centre’s senior research team and hear about their plans for research.
• To learn more about the Centre’s timetable for recruitment.
• Funding opportunities for research and public engagement activities.
• Questions and answers.

What is the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health?

Combining expertise from humanities and social sciences, together with natural, medical and environmental sciences, the vision of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health is to provide a unique opportunity to work together to address health challenges facing socially and culturally diverse populations.

The Centre aims to:

• Determine how individual and collective health and well-being are shaped by cultural contexts, environmental conditions and social relations;
• Extend the evidence base for cross-sectoral policies and interventions that help to create and sustain ‘healthy publics’.

The Centre's ethos is that:

• Effective responses to complex health issues require approaches that mobilize non-linear models of health and well-being, recognise the importance of subjective and collective experience, and synthesise approaches and insights from the humanities and social sciences with those from life sciences and medicine.

Our ambition is to establish a Centre in which creative pathways of investigation, interpretation and action can be communicated and shared across disciplines in order to generate and sustain healthy cultures and environments.

Who should attend?

All academics, researchers and Professional Services staff with an interest in the humanities and social sciences, together with natural, medical and environmental sciences are welcome to attend this session.

Other events

Similar events are taking place at the Truro (ECEHH), Streatham and St Luke's Campuses as follows:

Truro (ECEHH) Campus, Tuesday 2 May, 11.00 - 12.30

Streatham Campus (with VC to St Luke's), Friday 5 May, 11.30 - 13.00

St Luke's Campus, Wednesday 17 May, 13.30 - 15.00

Registration

Please register your interest in attending using the online registration form.

If you have any questions about the event please contact research-events@exeter.ac.uk