There will be a breakfast networking session for people interested in the history of physical therapy at the WCPT Congress in Cape Town, South Africa on Monday 3rd July from 7 - 8:15am. I'll be chairing the session, and the congress organisers are looking for 4 discussion points that they can use to advertise the session. I'd be really interested in people's thoughts about these possible topics, and any suggestions for alternatives: The history of causing and relieving pain The gendered history of physical therapy What our history can tell us about our present and future practice Researching the history of the profession The congress organisers are also looking to … [Read more...] about History of physical therapy networking session at WCPT – ideas and translators needed
The beauty of networks
If you'd have asked me two years ago whether I would, one day soon, travel to Norway to work with physiotherapists from the Critical Physiotherapy Network, I would have said you had been eating too many pickled herrings. But life is full of surprises, and I'm pleased to report that I've just returned to New Zealandafter spending a lovely month working at Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø, sharing ideas about the future of physiotherapy with some of the most critically interesting people I have come across in the profession. The invite to go to Norway came, in part, out of a meeting of CPN members at the In Sickness and In Health conference in Mallorca last year. Prior to that a number of our … [Read more...] about The beauty of networks
CPN at the 2015 APA Conference
Over the last few days, we’ve achieved another landmark in the evolution of the CPN, when six members of the Network presented the first Critical Physiotherapy Forum at the Australian Physiotherapy Association Conference on the Gold Coast, Queensland (link). Led by CPN Exec member Jenny Setchell in collaboration with the APA, we outlined five different critical research programmes and topics of critical interest, before hosting a panel discussion on the possibilities for more critical physiotherapy thinking and practice in the future Ian Edwards - What is the source of our ethical obligation in physiotherapy practice: Codes of Conduct or the Levinasian face? Amy Hiller - ‘Insider’ … [Read more...] about CPN at the 2015 APA Conference
Idea 12: Making formal links with other groups (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. The Critical Physiotherapy Network is an eclectic group with people interested in subjects like anthropology, cultural studies, economics, education, gender studies, humanities, legal studies, linguistics, philosophy, political studies and sociology as well as all-things physiotherapy. Members of the Network are also members of a wide variety of interest groups outside of the profession, and bring a huge … [Read more...] about Idea 12: Making formal links with other groups (2 mins)