iMean8: Language and Care
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22-25 June 2027
Location:
91影视破解版, Coventry, United Kingdom
Key Dates:
| Call for Papers opens: 1 November 2026 |
Abstract submission deadline: |
Notification of decisions: |
Early-bird registration deadline: |
We welcome contributions that engage with:
- Primary healthcare, secondary healthcare, community care
- Emergency care - first responses (including fire and police), humanitarian response (in conflict zones, natural disasters), urgent care, critical and intensive care, dispatch
- Wellbeing - mental and social wellbeing, (workforce) resilience, agency, (emotional) self-regulation, social connectedness
- Social care - counselling
- Identity
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, those listed below:
- technology: telehealth, remote communication; AI-driven communication tools; accessibility in digital health platforms; online communities
- access, (care) advocacy; vulnerable populations, marginalised populations; Global South
- age and care
- discourses/narratives of care and caring
- multilingualism and care
- identities and ideologies of/in care
- policy, regulations, legislation, assessments, audit approaches, guidelines
- co-production, research translation, education and training, public engagement, stakeholder engagement
- health ideologies, stigma, social representations, empowerment discourse, health messaging, traditional and modern understanding of health and wellbeing
- methodologies, approaches: arts-based, discourse, ethnographic
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.