Centre for Health Studies Hosts Eighth Annual Health Studies Day January 20

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Free Public Event to Feature Presentations on Sexting, Dementia, Biomedical Aspects of Injury, Farmwomen’s Perceptions of Caregiving Roles, and More

Thursday, January 14, 2010, Peterborough

Trent University’s Centre for Health Studies is hosting its eighth annual Health Studies Day on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in Alumni House at Champlain College.

Organized to highlight the types of health research underway at Trent, this year’s Health Studies Day will feature a range of speakers and topics from many different disciplines including Nursing, Geography, Psychology and Canadian Studies.

Presentations of note include: Farmwomen’s Emotional Geographies of Care; Sexting: New Technology, Same Old Behaviour; Biomedical Representations of Injury; and Grey Matters: Dementia and the “Guilty Demographic” on the Silvering Screen.

A complete agenda is as follows:

1:00 p.m.        
Welcome and opening remarks
Deborah Kennett, Psychology and Director, Centre for Health Studies

1:15 p.m.        
Social Determinants of Health Research in Haliburton County
Heather Reid, U-Links Centre for Community-Based Research;
Ann MacLeod, Nursing; Mark Skinner, Geography

1:45 p.m.        
Farmwomen’s Emotional Geographies of Care
Rachel Herron, Canadian and Indigenous Studies M.A. student; and
Mark Skinner, Geography

2:15 p.m.        
Sexting: New Technology, Same Old Behaviour
Terry Humphreys, Psychology and Alyssa Diceman, Psychology

2:45 p.m.        
Break

3:00 p.m.        
On Young Women Becoming Sexually Resourceful Using a Concurrent
Mixed-Methods Approach
Deborah J. Kennett, Psychology and Terry Humphreys, Psychology

3:30 p.m.        
Biomedical Representations of Injury
Fergal O’Hagan, Psychology

4:00 p.m.        
Grey Matters: Dementia and the “Guilty Demographic” on the Silvering Screen
Sally Chivers, Canadian Studies

4:30 p.m.        
Closing Remarks
Deborah Kennett, Psychology and Director, Centre for Health Studies

There is no charge to attend the eighth annual Health Studies Day and coffee, tea, water and desserts will be available throughout the afternoon. All members of the community are welcome.

To learn more about Trent’s Centre for Health Studies, visit www.trentu.ca/ihs

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Media are welcome and encouraged to attend this event.

For more information, please contact:
Deborah Kennett, Director, Centre for Health Studies, at (705) 748-1011 x7770 or dkennett@trentu.ca