Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. If you've ever visited the European Graduate School website you'll know what an impressive organisation it is. It's faculty is made up some of the world's most prominent thinkers and opinion-shapers (Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler...and that's just the 'B's'!). The school runs residential courses and delivers a lot of video content for free to a global audience to shape opinion on … [Read more...] about Idea 27: We form our own faculty (2 mins)
Idea 26: Annual award for the best critical research paper (2 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. One way the group might be able to raise it's profile and let other critical physiotherapists know that we exist might be to promote a prize for the best critical research paper. The prize would acknowledge a piece of research that challenges physiotherapists to think differently about their theory and practice. It would not need to be about physiotherapy, per se, but it could have implications for our … [Read more...] about Idea 26: Annual award for the best critical research paper (2 mins)
Idea 25: Overcoming barriers to publishing in English language journals (3 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. A good friend of mine and someone known to a lot of people in health care in Canada (the very brilliant and fiercely critical Dave Holmes), is a native French speaker. You'd never know it from the way he writes, but he has some real anxieties about his ability to express himself in English. As someone who has always struggled to learn languages, I confess I can't imagine anything more difficult than … [Read more...] about Idea 25: Overcoming barriers to publishing in English language journals (3 mins)