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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

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.

The NCCR CLIM+ Programme on 'Climate Extremes & Society' (www.nccr-climplus.ch) has been approved for funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF for the coming 4 years. With 47 PIs, 10 project partners, 20 partner institutions and 22 stakeholder organisations from health to finance and agriculture, NCCR-CLIM+ will unite expertise from both the natural and social sciences to support Switzerland’s effective transformation towards a more resilient and safer future (Co-lead by the University of Bern / Karin Ingold, Olivia Romppainen-Martius and ETH Zurich).

The Remote Sensing Research Group has developed the longest global snow cover data set (1979 – 2023) in the frame of the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative SNOW project.

The gap-filled dataset facilitates most detailed analysis of global snow dynamics to date and is available for the public free of charge (details and links are published in the Journal Remote Sensing of Environment).
On Monday March 2^nd, ESA has published a press release (see link) to highlight the unique development and global snow time series. If you need further information, you are welcome to ask Stefan Wunderle. 

Dr. Sophia Etzold (WSL)
Colloquium in Climate Impact, Remote Sensing, Geocomputation and Climatology
(14:15 – 15:15, room 124, Uni Mittelstrasse, Mittelstrasse 43 or Zoom Room: Link)
To participate via Zoom, a password is required. The password can be requested via e-mail.

Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong, Wageningen University
Berner Humangeographisches Kolloquium
(14:15, room 002, GIUB)

Organized by the Units:
Social and Cultural Geography / Economic Geography /
Critical Sustainibility Studies /
Political Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial Development /
Geographies of Disasters
in cooperation with the mLAB of the Institute of Geography