This was great! Ageing is one of those topics where thinking about it even just a little bit and sharing experiences with others goes a long way to making us way more lucid about it. The default usually is to never think about it unless forced! This book club feels safe & sparks interesting convos.
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Our schedule for our next network seminar has now been finalised!
Check out our website for the full list of awesome talks:
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/10/netw...
P.S. there's still time to register!
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Coming soon: Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).
Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by #PPIE experts.
πTues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm
Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw
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Donβt forget to sign up to our new reading group! Weβll be meeting in two weeks to discuss the beginning of section 5: βThe Discovery and Assumption of Old Age: The Bodyβs Experienceβ (pp.314-345 of the 1985 Penguin Modern Classics edition)
14.10.2025 15:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
This week on Behind the Stigma PodcastποΈ, I spoke to @isernmas.bsky.social on their excellent paper 'Unmasking therapy speak' - what they describe as a superficial use of psychotherapy language. We spoke about what that means & its wider impact. Listen here:π€© www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...
10.10.2025 16:13 β π 9 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1
Monthly Phenomenology, 6th Season (2025β2026) - Online
Francesca Forlè - Embodied Affectivity. A Phenomenological Account of the Connection between Affective Phenomena and Bodily Expressions
24 October 2025
From the Network for Phenomenological Research
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/10/09/m...
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Microsoft Forms
In-person places are limited so please do sign-up using this form: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/EsTMPqiedZ
Online attendance will also be facilitated!
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π£Announcing our Psychedelics, Phenomenology, & Mental Health seminar, 5.11.25, Birmingham and Online
Drawing on phenomenological perspectives, the workshop will bring together interdisciplinary scholars to discuss the potential of psychedelic experiences for addressing mental health challenges.
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29.09.2025 16:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The promises and perils of the psychedelic turn in psychiatry
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 38, No. 7, 2025)
New special issue out on psychedelic treatments! Guest editor Elly Vintiadis, who also authored the introduction: doi.org/10.1080/0951... Free access! Follow this thread to know more about the other contributions #vol38issue7 #psychedelics #philsky #philpsy
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Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry
Submit work that examines how Hackingβs historical and pragmatic approach to philosophy has reshaped inquiries into psychiatry.
Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Εerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci
26.09.2025 14:42 β π 24 π 18 π¬ 0 π 0
Launching: de Beauvoir Reading Group on "Old Age"
Network members Valeria Motta, Andrew Maile and Jodie Russell are excited to announce that start of a new reading group starting October 28t...
Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health?
Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age".
Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...
26.09.2025 10:41 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 3
Great kick off for the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health! Inspiring day, fruitful conversations and great speakers.
An heartfelt thanks to all the people who presented and attended (in person and remotely) from us!
@matthewbroome.bsky.social @jelliedsours.bsky.social
03.09.2025 18:37 β π 40 π 6 π¬ 3 π 0
thank you @uobphenomenal.bsky.social for an excellent workshop today! such a diverse and thought-provoking collection of talks, and lovely conversations with fellow attendees. iβm looking forward to the next event!
03.09.2025 18:54 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Loving the talks this morning at @uobphenomenal.bsky.social's event. We are learning about really interesting topics with some lovely speakers and great moderation by @jelliedsours.bsky.social
03.09.2025 11:01 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Registration for our event closes today, so please sign up ASAP if you would like to come along.
Itβs going to be a fun, jam-packed day!
01.09.2025 10:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Our event is only a week away! Please do register if you havenβt done so already!
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Our event is on September 3rd 2025 at The Studio in central Birmingham but there is an option for online attendance for those who would like to listen to the talks!
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Microsoft Forms
πRegistration for our PhD and ECR Research Day is now open! Click here to register and see the provisional schedule: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/deAH1HLcv2
We will be hearing amazing presentations on the theme of lived experiences in mental health, and talking about career goals and next steps!
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Delighted to be part of this great new network at Birmingham, and quietly working on putting together a psychedelics and lived experience workshop as part of its activities!
19.08.2025 12:41 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Cover of Why Delusions Matter
Logo of Choice
Happy to hear that Why Delusions Matter (Bloomsbury 2023) is a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! www.choice360.org/ch... #philsky #philpsy #booksky
18.08.2025 19:28 β π 56 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0
Mobile Methods in Social Research
This webinar was organised by QUEST (Qualitative Expertise at Southampton) in collaboration with the National Centre for Research Methods, the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership and Work Futur
Mobile methods in social research. Watch RuthBartlett talking about walking interviews. @sadierockliffe.bsky.social on swim-along interviews. And GabrielleLynch on shared car journeys. Amazing creative researchers! Thanks @ncrm.ac.uk
18.08.2025 09:55 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
For the Love of Art
Call for abstracts for a 2-Day Art Workshop (13-14 November 2025) convened by the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa.
www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/08/13/c...
#phenomenology #philosophy
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Charlotte Knowles - Danielle Petherbridge - Aisling Swaine
Special Keynote Plenary: βPhenomenological Explorations of Coercive Control & Complicityβ
#BSP2025UCD: βLifeworlds in Crisis: Applying #Phenomenologyβ
27/28/29 August - Dublin
Registration Open Now
thebsp.org.uk/2025/07/18/k...
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Just a reminder that the deadline to submit your abstract is this Friday, August 15th!
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Absolutely! That's definitely "around" the Midlands (broadly construed). As long as travel is not too much of an issue - unfortunately we are not able to cover travel this time.
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