First workshop for Wellcome Trust funded network on ‘Doctors within Borders'
The first workshop for the Wellcome Trust funded network on ‘Doctors within Borders’ takes place on Friday 10th January at Lancaster University. The network is co-led by Dr Luca Follis. The workshop will focus on ‘Healthcare Mobilities and National Health Systems’.
People move across international borders, often along unpredictable paths. Systems for the delivery of healthcare are largely fixed in place. This workshop is designed to foster discussion of healthcare and mobility, drawing on the insights of interdisciplinary mobilities research. The workshop hopes to bring together two perspectives. Firstly, how do refugees, persons with an unsettled immigration status and persons without a fixed address access healthcare? What challenges do they experience? Secondly, how do practitioners go about delivering care to those groups? What challenges stand in the way and what avenues exist for overcoming difficulties?
The workshop will hear from speakers throughout the day who will provide insights from their research, practice, and activism, and the keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Monika Büscher. There will also be a ‘mobility cafe’ where participants will consider key issues raised throughout the day, exploring ways in which health care research and practice can be considered from a mobilities perspective, and a network activation session to plan for taking the project forwards into the next workshops.
Dr Luca Follis (with Dr. Karolina Follis, Dr Janine Morley (Lancaster University), and Dr Nicola Burns (University of Glasgow)) was awarded £29,985 funding from the Wellcome Trust to support the creation and development of the network.
For more about the project see http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/doctors-within-borders/