A little late, but worth sharing - our paper 'Building the AVATAR Corpus' was published in December.
I feel genuinely lucky to have had the chance to contribute to this project, and to have collaborated with such an inspiring group of co-authors.
Excited to see how this resource is applied!
📣 Reminder!
👇 Just 3 weeks to go until the deadline for our 2026 online webinar.
We look forward to seeing your submissions!
Call for Papers for our 2026 webinar: ‘Key Health and Science Communication Challenges in the 2020s’
We’re delighted to share the cfp for our upcoming event. If you’re considering submitting, we’d love to hear from you.
The deadline for submission is 5pm, February 9th 2026.
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New short paper out in Public Health: 'A jab is not a vaccine; it's a 'shot'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Image shows day 1 of the programme, which can be read as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/ Symposium Programme Day 1: Thursday 11th of September 2025 09.30 - 10.15 Registration 10.15 - 10.30 Symposium Opening Address 10.30 - 12.00 Panel 1: Chronic and long-term health Sex differences on a forum about anxiety Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK) Shared decision making, health literacy and management of heart failure: an analysis of patients’ interactions through their hospital journey. Susy Macqueen, Diana Slade and Suzanne Raine (Australian National University) Communicating dementia: Comparing AI-generated stereotypes to experience-led discussions Emma Putland and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Panel 2: Infectious diseases and pandemics How will we work together? Communication and Caring in the Time of Pandemics Elizabeth A. Rider (Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA) The mental health of university graduates in a post-COVID world: A mixed-methods sociolinguistic approach Olga Zayts-Spence, Paul W.C. Wong, David Matthew Edmonds (University of Hong Kong) Challenges and Opportunities in Participatory Surveillance for Dengue Prevention: A Sri Lankan Case Study Prasad Wimalaratne (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) and May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 14.30 - 15.00 Break 15.00 – 16.30 Panel 3: Vaccinations Post-pandemic challenges in communication about vaccines Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK) Enhancing the value and wider benefit of research into Coronavirus Discourses: A Pan-London Immunisation Campaign Svenja Adolphs, Emma McClaughlin and Sara Vilar-Lluch (University of Nottingham and Cardiff University, UK) The problem with ‘side effects’ Zsófia Demjén (University College London, UK) 16.30 – 17.00 Roundtable discussion
Image shows day 2 of the programme, which can be read as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/ Day 2: Friday 12th of September 2025 09.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Interactions in healthcare settings Intercultural moments in emergency calls: Issues of access, accommodation, and attitude Jennifer Watermeyer and Rhona Nattrass (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) (In)equality, (in)visibilised diversity and exclusion: the ideological framing of language in NHS interpreting and translation guidelines. Emma Brooks (University College London, UK) Medical consultations with older adult patients in a multicultural setting: Dynamics of doctor-patient communication and the impact of companions May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 11.00 – 11.30 Break 11.30 – 12.30 Panel 4 (Continued): Interactions in healthcare settings Enhancing Patient Engagement in Oncology-Specific Genetic Counselling: A Conversation Analytic Approach K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) How REACHE equips asylum seeker and refugee doctors for safe and effective practice in the NHS Hayley Poulson (Refugee and Asylum Seekers Centre for Healthcare Professionals Education (REACHE Northwest), Salford Royal Hospital, UK) 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 15.00 Panel 5: Interactions in healthcare settings and end of life The EMPATHY Protocol: Modern Support in Challenging Moments of Patient Care Aldona Katarzyna Jankowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun, Poland) The taboo of communication about assisted dying Nancy Preston (Lancaster University, UK) How to Talk about Dying? Lessons Learned from a Swiss Framework for Teaching Compassionate Communication about the End of Life Sibylle Felber (University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Switzerland) 15.30 – 16.00 Roundtable discussion 16.00 – 16.20 Event Close
📬Registration is now open for the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH)!
📆When: 11-12 September 2025
📍At: Lancaster University, UK
For more event information (registration, programme, speakers, abstracts, etc.) see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
The IOE has also put together a short piece featuring our latest Questioning Vaccination Discourse paper:
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...
