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The Healing Seven: How architecture impacts health
Part of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Guest Lecture Series 2023/24
17 January 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online - Zoom
- Lecture
More than ‘just nature’: Investigating the built environment as a place for psychological restoration
Extensive literature in environmental psychology is devoted to study of the connections between physical environment and health and wellbeing, including psychological outcomes. A subsection of this literature focuses on ‘restorative environments’, or settings that support psychological recovery from everyday stress and/or demands on attention.
31 January 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online- Zoom
- Lecture
Architect of Information: Race and the Environmental Health Models of Dr James Africanus Beale Horton in British Africa during the Nineteenth Century
Part of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Guest Lecture Series 2023/24 Please note this session will now take place over Zoom.
14 February 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online
- Lecture
The results freed us from some of our Western assumptions about how a hospital ought to be: Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and hospital architecture in the mid-twentieth century
Part of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Guest Lecture Series 2023/24 and is delivered as part of the Durham URIs: Global research tackling global challenges events
28 February 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online - Zoom
- Lecture
Graceful Steps: Celebrating World Parkinson's Day with Balbir Singh Dance Company
All welcome, No need to book
11 April 2024
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Botanic Gardens Durham
- Public
- Research event
- Family friendly
Joining the Dots
PLEASE NOTE All spaces have now been taken and confirmed with an email. We are having reports that some organisational firewalls are not allowing these confirmation emails through. If you have registered but not received an email please contact suzanne.boyd@durham.ac.uk and we will send you all of the relevant information.
17 April 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Calman Learning Centre, Durham City
- Research event
Coffee, Cake and Connections
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) that is looking to meet other researchers with an interest in health and wellbeing (broadly construed)?
17 April 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
CB0015, Confluence Building
- Discussion
More Skills Less Pills: Introduction to safer prescribing and supporting pain self-management
Overall aim: to increase confidence in knowledge, skills and use of tools/resources to enable the person with pain engage in self-care and safer use of medicines
23 April 2024
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Zoom
- Workshop
Behavioural Insight to understand participation with cardiovascular risk reduction
HI NENC in partnership with NIHR ARC NENC invite you to a joint webinar on 22nd May 2024. The purpose of this webinar is to build upon the first event in June 2023 and to provide updates of the NENC national Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Project (INHIP) which has been delivered in Middlesbrough.
22 May 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
online
- Research event
A memorable walk through time and nature with Balbir Singh Dance Company
Join Balbir Singh Dance Company and Durham University for an immersive research experience connecting nature, heritage, and the sensing body to help address chronic pain. This unique event features an outdoor experience at Durham's "Sakura Friendship Garden" and the Japan section of the Oriental Museum, supported by the newly formed Student Creative Health and Wellbeing Society. Participants will explore language within nature and understand the body's relationship to the landscape.
18 October 2024
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Durham University Botanic Gardens and Oriental Museum
- Public
Coffee and Connections
Are you interested in being involved in research that makes a positive impact on health and wellbeing? Would you like to meet other like-minded people, from all disciplines and faculties of Durham University, in the early stages of their research careers?
02 December 2024
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
W215 (Geography Building)
- Research event
Unbound opportunities: A silo-busting exploration of health and wellbeing research ideas
We learn to be researchers through our academic discipline and the methods it utilises, but we seldom have the opportunity to come together with researchers from other disciplines to view our diverse research talents through a collaborative lens. Meanwhile, across all disciplines, there are people who are interested in developing into researchers whose work makes a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations.
10 February 2025
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Lindisfarne, St Aidens
- Research event
“Swimbling” to manage your health, wellbeing and persistent pain
Kathleen is one of our local Pain Livers Trainer on the Wolfson Live Well with Pain 10-Footsteps programme. Kathleen Wotton suffers from a range of debilitating health conditions including osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and lipoedema which has seen her struggle with her weight and mental health.
22 February 2025
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Seaham Town Hall
- Public
- Research event
The GOLD Programme: Addressing health inequality in County Durham through partnership with China
Our starting point was developing a summer school on public health and data for undergraduate students from several Universities in China. Our ending point was addressing health inequalities in County Durham.
03 March 2025
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
PCL054, Palatine Centre, Durham University
- Research event
Coffee and Connections
Are you interested in being involved in research that makes a positive impact on health and wellbeing? Would you like to meet other like-minded people, from all disciplines and faculties of Durham University, in the early stages of their research careers?
04 March 2025
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
L048, Psychology
- Research event
Workshop 2 - Unbound opportunities: A silo-busting exploration of health and wellbeing research ideas
Following the connections made in our February workshop to spark some exciting research ideas, this second creatively facilitated workshop will equip participants with the support they need to make bids to cover the cost of travel, room hire, and other practicalities for small-scale focus groups, information-sharing events, and other such relationship-building activities
10 March 2025
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
D104, Dawson Building, Archaeology.
- Research event
Footsteps to Change - Live Well with Pain Conference 2025
This one-day conference in Birmingham will share real-world examples from practitioners who have successfully implemented persistent pain services and support in Primary and Community care practice. It will include sessions with a focus on particular aspects of management, knowledge or experience.
14 March 2025
9:30 AM - 5:15 PM
Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
- Research event
Coffee and Connections
Are you interested in being involved in research that makes a positive impact on health and wellbeing? Would you like to meet other like-minded people, from all disciplines and faculties of Durham University, in the early stages of their research careers?
19 March 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
CB-0015 (Confluence Building)
- Research event
Fellows Networking
The Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing is holding a Fellows event on the 27th March 2025, TLC23, 13.00 - 14.30 (light refreshments will be provided).
27 March 2025
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
TLC123
- Research event
Colour Blue for Dementia Action Week in Durham
Alzheimer’s Society-County Durham has partnered with Professor Paul Chazot, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University and Balbir Singh Dance Company to create a trail of pop-up performances with light, dance, music and props on the theme of the colour Blue for Dementia Action Week, to raise awareness of the importance of an early diagnosis for people affected by dementia.
22 May 2025
6:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Starting at Baths Bridge
- Public
What on Earth am I doing (next)?
You are invited to the launch of a new series of sessions helping to prepare early career researchers for life after PhDs or Postdocs. The launch session will introduce the aims of the new events and start a discussion about what support is needed for those taking or thinking of taking a PhD or a Postdoc.
04 June 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
CG83 - Chemistry
- Research event
WomenFlourish@Work: Research Culture Enrichment for Women at Work – Workshop on 10 June 2025
This workshop continues the collaborative efforts of the IAA weDecide project and brings together researchers, clinicians, and colleagues across disciplines to explore how menopause impacts women at work—and how our research culture can evolve to better support them.
10 June 2025
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room VisLab (MCS1022) Mathematics and Computer Science Building
- Workshop
Eighth Annual ECR Conference - Call for Abstracts now OPEN!
Calling all undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs and ECRs involved or interested in Health and Wellbeing research!! The Wolfson Early Career Researcher Committee invites you all to take part in the Eighth Annual Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Early Career Researcher Conference taking place on the 27th June 2025.
27 June 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Teaching and Learning Centre room 101
- Research event