Understanding women's mental health across the lifecourse
Guest Speaker Professor Deborah Loxton, University of Newcastle Australia
The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers together across the Â鶹ֱ²¥, and beyond, with an interest in understanding women?€?s mental health. The workshop will convene a multi-disciplinary group with shared substantive interests, but who take different approaches to research on this topic.
| The Â鶹ֱ²¥ Q-Step Centre workshop | |
|---|---|
| Date | 25 July 2019 |
| Time | 13:00 to 16:30 |
| Place | Digital Humanities Laboratory |
| Provider | The Â鶹ֱ²¥ Q-Step Centre |
Event details
The workshop is prompted by the visit of Professor Deborah Loxton Co-director of the Research Centre for Generational Health and Ageing, a priority research centre of the University of Newcastle Australia, and Deputy Director of the Australian Longitudinal Â鶹ֱ²¥ on Women’s Health (ALSWH).
The workshop will showcase the data resources available for work in this area and is co-hosted by the Exeter Q-Step centre.
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Outline programme
1pm: Lunch
1:30: Introductions
1:45 Violence and health across the life course: Data from the Australian Longitudinal Â鶹ֱ²¥ on Women’s Health
Deborah Loxton and Natalie Townsend (University of Newcastle, Australia)
2:30 The 1958 British Birth Cohort Â鶹ֱ²¥ – quantitative and qualitative resources for understanding women’s mental health and wellbeing through the life course
Jane Elliott (Professor of Sociology, Â鶹ֱ²¥)
3pm Tea
3:15 A life course approach to women’s physical and mental health: evidence from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development.
Diana Kuh (Emeritus Professor of Life Course Epidemiology at UCL and is Honorary Professor at Exeter Medical School)
3:45 Depression in pregnancy across generations : evidence from ALSPAC (working title)
Rebecca Pearson (University of Bristol)
4:15 Plenary discussion
4:30 Close
Location:
Digital Humanities Laboratory