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9 January 2026

Dialogues on health and care: places, knowledges and practices of resistance and transformation

Call for papers in Journal «Health and Place»

Submission deadline: 30 April 2026

This special issue invites contributions from geography, applied health sciences, anthropology, psychiatry, and related fields. The contributions discuss places of health and care, politics of knowledge production, and the everyday practices of resistance and transformation within healthcare and wellbeing. This special issue serves as a platform for dialogue among scholars from various disciplines to explore inequalities, injustices, and the transformative potential in everyday experiences and practices of health (and) care. By bridging different health-related disciplines, the special issue contributes to the growing field of health geographies that critically engage with health and wellbeing through spatial, relational, and interdisciplinary lenses.

Further information: see here

Guest editors: 
Dr. Maaret Jokela-Pansini, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK, maaret.jokela-pansini@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Dr. Susan Thieme, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland, susan.thieme@unibe.ch

14 January 2026

Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer

Heike Mayer joins the board of the Sustainability Science Initiative

Heike Mayer has been elected to the SRI board for a three-year term. With the Sustainability Research Initiative, SCNAT, together with its sister institutions, promotes research on sustainable development and 2030 Agenda. It focuses on the joint handling of social issues of higher priority in overarching consortia.

27 January 2026

PhD Presentation

  • Ursina Morgenthaler
    «Characterization of dissolved, colloidal, and solid-state fractions of flood-induced antimony release in mine-impacted and shooting range soils»
    (15:00, lecture room 001, GIUB)