Narratives of Moral Injury in European and International Contexts

8-10 April 2024 at St Chad's College, 18 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3RH  

Please note that the registration deadline has now passed. For those who have registered, the programme is shown below.

 

Programme

 

Day 1

 

12noon Registration in the foyer

Tea and coffee available in Moulsdale Hall

1.15pm Introductory session

Brian Powers (International Centre for Moral Injury, Durham University):
Welcome

Wendy Cooper (International Centre for Moral Injury, Durham University):
Moral injury in context and the importance of understanding the contextual response

2pm Session 1: Investigating moral injury and questioning assumptions

Chair: Brian Powers (International Centre for Moral Injury)

Colette Hawkins (South Tees NHS Foundation Trust):
Defying death: Do we risk moral injury by medicalising the end of life? 

Cher McGillivray (Bond University, Australia):
A multidimensional scaling investigation of the clinical utility of the Intrapersonal Moral Injury Scale (IMIS)

3.10pm Tea/coffee break

3.45pm Session 2: Moral injury and the church

Chair: Dayne Nix (US Naval War College)

Aaron Fuller (Shay Moral Injury Center, Volunteers of America):
It's not burnout: Moral injury as a lens to reframe and address church decline in Europe and North America

Rhona Knight (Durham University, UK):
Great expectations, moral injury and the church

Maggi Creese (Diocese of Newcastle, UK), Sarah Troughton (NHS psychiatrist with lived experience of church-related abuse), David Creese (Newcastle University, survivor of church-related abuse) and Peter Locke (organist and composer, survivor of church-related abuse):
Moral injury and church-related abuse: A new framework for ritual created by survivors

5.30pm End of academic programme for the day

Time to check in for people staying at St Chad's

6pm Dinner

7pm Film screening 

The UK premiere of What I Want You to Know, a gripping, intimate documentary film about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. With searing candour, veterans share personal stories from their deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and explore the moral tragedy of their wars.

Followed by a discussion with the film’s director Catie Foertsch and film participant and veteran Garett Reppenhagen

9.30pm Close for the day

 

Day 2

 

8am Breakfast for those staying at St Chad’s

Move to Pemberton Lecture Room 21 (PG21) on Palace Green for Session 3

9am Session 3: Moral injury narratives and the role of chaplains in the Australian context: A bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to prevention and treatment 

By Mark Layson (Charles Sturt University) and Lindsay Carey (La Trobe University)

Chair: Nicola Frail (Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, UK)

10.45am Tea/coffee break

11.30am Session 4: Moral injury, health and social care

Chair: Colette Hawkins (South Tees NHS Foundation Trust, UK)

Andrea Lambell (Durham University, UK):
Distancing, PPE, and moral distress in England’s hidden health and care landscape, 2020-22

Amelia Pearson, Catherine Robinson, Rebecca McPhillips, Paul Clarkson, Janine Owens (all University of Manchester, UK) and Eleanor Hinchliffe (South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK):
Agent of the state vs advocate for people: An exploration of English social workers’ experiences of moral injury

Elanor Webb (St Andrew's Healthcare and University of Central Lancashire, UK), Jane Ireland and Michael Lewis (University of Central Lancashire):
Pathways from moral injury: Exploring associated wellbeing outcomes and the mediating role of emotional schema

1.15pm Lunch

2.30pm Session 5: Australasian contexts and categories for moral injury

Chair: Lily An-Kim (McMaster Divinity College, Canada)

Atsushi Shibaoka (University of Divinity, Australia):
Moral injury as a war syndrome: An historical approach

Matthew Hawkins (University of Otago, New Zealand):
Third match official decision pending: The evidence of moral injury in elite sport?

3.40pm Tea/coffee break

4.15pm Session 6: Conceptualising moral injury in Asian and African contexts

Chair: Atsushi Shibaoka (University of Divinity, Australia)

Kristine Chong (Shay Moral Injury Center, Volunteers of America) and Jeeyoung Kim (University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology):
Postmemory and countermemory retrievals of morally injurious histories by the Korean diaspora

Xiaoge Wang (Durham University, UK): 
The unspeakable truth: Japanese shame culture in An Artist of the Floating World

Assala Khettache (Aberystwyth University, UK):
Exploring the consequences of neglect: The weaponization of collective moral injuries in African societies

6pm End of academic programme for the day

6pm Dinner

7.30pm Photography exhibition: Afghanistan veterans: Moral injury and righting wrongs

7.30pm Introduction by project co-leads Sara de Jong (University of York, UK) and Andy Barnham (photographer and British Army veteran) and veteran and participant Marcus Grotian (Patenschaftsnetzwerk Afghanische Ortskräfte, or Sponsorship Network for Afghan Local Staff, Germany)

8pm  Time to look at photographs (refreshments available)

8.40pm Discussion

9pm Close for the day

 

Day 3

 

8am Breakfast for those staying at St Chad’s

If you are staying at St Chad’s, please vacate your room and return your key to Reception by 10am. Luggage can be stored upon request at Reception.

9am Session 7: Examining and responding to moral injury

Chair: Sara de Jong (University of York, UK)

Lily An-Kim (McMaster Divinity College, Canada):
Moral watermarks at the margins: Entering endangered waters after injuries to matriarchs

Dayne Nix (US Naval War College):
The lasting impact of moral injury on war veterans: G. A. Studdert Kennedy's struggle against the glorification of war by observances of Armistice Day and Britain's war memorials, 1921-1929

Stephen Radley (University of Roehampton, UK):
Creating new theologies of war from the embodied experience of moral injury through photographic practices of visio divina

10.45am Tea/coffee break

11.15am Session 8: Workshop drawing on Reflect and Renew, a retreat-based intervention for moral injury in frontline workers

By Simon Edwards, Alison O'Connor and Sophie Redlin (Moral Injury Partnership, UK)

12noon Closing session

12noon Reflections by Zachary Moon (Chicago Theological Seminary, USA)

12.45pm General discussion

1.15pm Conference close