26th July 2018 Dept of Geography and Planning, The University of Liverpool Keynote Speaker: Professor Dee Heddon, University of Glasgow A one-day interdisciplinary event focused on walking research, practice and culture. Our definition of walking is welcoming to all kinds of bodies and includes orthotics, sticks, wheels and other assistive technologies. This symposium is open to students, academics and anyone else interested in exploring the more than pedestrian. We invite proposals for 20 minute paper presentations, but are also open to creative and innovative methods. We are also interested in facilitating a small number of walks. Subjects covered may include, but are not limited … [Read more...] about Beyond The Pedestrian: Walking in Research, Theory, Practice and Performance
Idea 6: Commenting on current affairs (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. If we truly believe that physiotherapy should have more to say about the world than just thinking about the body of the person in front of us, then surely that responsibility at least extends to the politics of the health care and educational systems that we operate in. But then why not also extend this out to broader issues that others seem happy to engage in, but we have always shied away from. Don't … [Read more...] about Idea 6: Commenting on current affairs (2 mins)