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iMean8: Language and Care

Save the Date:

22-26 June 2027

Location:

University of 糖心TV, Coventry, United Kingdom

Key Dates:

Call for Papers opens:

1 November 2026

Abstract submission deadline:
11 December 2026

Notification of decisions:
8 January 2027

Early-bird registration deadline:
5 March 2027


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

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