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. Late last week, I posted the announcement of the 6th International In Sickness and In Health Conference which will be in Mallorca from June 10-12 next year. Coincidentally, one of our members is an Associate Professor at the University of the Balearic Islands which is hosting the conference. On seeing the message, Berta (Dr Berta Paz Lourido) kindly volunteered to host us for a pre- or post-conference … [Read more...] about Idea 9: Meet in Mallorca around the ISIH conference (2 mins)
Idea 8: Make the group open to non-physios (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. From the outset, this group has been about developing a critical attitude towards physiotherapy. We're a small organization, just finding our feet, and it's made sense for us to start modestly - not wanting to take on too much and risk losing our focus. Besides, physiotherapy is so far away from being a diverse, inclusive, critically-conscious profession that we could work solidly for the next 20 years … [Read more...] about Idea 8: Make the group open to non-physios (2 mins)
Idea 7: Start a journal called Critical Physiotherapy (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 of the first proper articles I wrote was about the birth of the physiotherapy profession in the UK and what the founders of the profession did to legitimize massage (Nicholls, 2006). The first place I sent it to was Physiotherapy - the English journal of the CSP, and the very organisation I was writing about. They rejected the paper, not because of its academic merits, but rather (or so they told … [Read more...] about Idea 7: Start a journal called Critical Physiotherapy (2 mins)