Post-crisis Professionalism? Setting the Agenda for a New Politics of Healthcare Professionalism

British Academy/Wellcome Trust Conferences bring together scholars and specialists from around the world to explore themes related to health and wellbeing.

This two-day conference will bring together researchers and professional representatives to better understand the socio-cultural and political pressures healthcare professionals are facing following the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these pressures are transforming the field. Healthcare professionalism is deeply influenced by politics and culture, shaped by the expectations of multiple stakeholders, and navigated by the professionals themselves who negotiate these expectations in their practice, culture, and identity. In the post-pandemic world, healthcare faces significant resource shortages and workforce gaps, and the impact of new technologies like AI. There is also a growing need to address health disparities and focus more on preventative care. Such demands call for health professionalism to be re-imagined on both cultural and political levels. The aim of the conference is to establish a new global research agenda to guide scholarship and professional development for the next decade.

Conference convenor:

• Professor Justin Waring, University of Birmingham

Speakers include:

• Professor Charlotte Croft, University of Liverpool
• Professor Robert Dingwall, Independent Scholar
• Dr Martijn Felder, Erasmus University
• Dr Tania Jenkins, University of North Carolina
• Professor Federico Lega, University of Milan
• Professor Mirko Noordegraaf, University of Utrecht
• Professor Dimitra Petrakaki, University of Sussex
• Dr Paula Roland, University of Toronto
• Dr Natéwindé Sawadogo, University of Thomas Sankara
• Dr Simon Turner, University of Los Andes
• Dr Iris Wallenburg, Erasmus University
• Professor Justin Waring, University of Birmingham

Please note that registrations for this event have now closed.

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Image: Junior doctors raising awareness of the reasons for their strike vote on the streets of Norwich, photograph by Roger Blackwell, 2015