Fevers, Frets, and Futures: uncertainty and new ecologies for post-Covid healthcare

The last two and a half years have exposed points of encounter between existing anxieties about climate change and environmental collapse and new crises of health and well-being in the face of the Covid pandemic. What are the lessons we can learn from the frets and fevers of a global pandemic, to think and create new futures and a new sustainability in our work, our lives, and the environments on which they precariously depend? Creating a dialogue between the SHAPE (arts, humanities and social sciences) and STEM (biomedical, science, engineering and technology) disciplines this hybrid conference brings together global and local perspectives on practice, in a community of trust.

Confirmed keynote/plenary contributors

Dr Ayesha Ahmad, Prof Helen Chatterjee, Prof Anthony Costello, Prof Julian Ma, Dr Nick Watts (Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS England), Invisible Flock and the Land Body Ecologies Team at the Wellcome Hub, Prof James Wilson, Daniel Wilson, Dr Dhruv Gupta, Dr Rochelle Burgess, Dr Emily Baker, Dr Anne Dunleavey, Dr Sarah de Leeuw, Dr Margaret Greenwood, Kung Jaadee, Dr Margot Parkes, Prof Ilan Kelman, and artists Dr Onya McCausland, Lisa Boivin, Christine Wertheim, Prof Dryden Goodwin, Dr Sarah Fortais, Hannah Fletcher, Dr Edwina Fitzpatrick, Lucie Winterson, performer Meg Hodgson, poet Prof Sharon Morris, musician  Dhanraj Persaud and dancer Anusha Subramanyam (Beeja.com).

Registration is open: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/617707147707. Attendance is free for UCL staff and students. 

Look out for the programme as it evolves which will include: keynote presentations, panel discussions and conversations from diverse perspectives, creative and interactive workshops and student poster and creative prizes. Check the conference website for more information. 

Banner image by Onya McCausland  ©