Events

See also the Centre for Reasoning events page.

28 February 2024. Symposium on Medical Misinformation (HMG). 3-5pm. Keynes seminar room 6. Organised by Jon Williamson

3-4pm. Ioannis Votsis (NULondon). Automating Scientific Reasoning: The Case of Medical Research.
4-5pm. Brian Ball (NULondon). Computational Models of Misinformation and Mistrust: a PolyGraphs Project Progress Report.

15 November 2023. Special HMG session on evidence, values and the mind in medicine, with David Corfield, Alexandra Trofimov, Lubomira Radoilska, Michael Wilde & Jon Williamson. 1-3pm, Templeman Seminar Room 3 and MS Teams. In conjunction with the Centre for Health and Medical Humanities.

26-27 April 2023. Augmented Agency ∝ Augmented Fairness. Interdisciplinary 2-day event. Co-organised by Lubomira Radoilska with Joy Zhang and colleagues from Kent GSEJ

9, 16, 23 March 2023. Meaningful Voices. 3 research co-creation workshops. Mental Health Foundation, The Wellcome Trust, and St Catherine’s College, Oxford University. Organised by Lubomira Radoilska

8 March 2023. What Can we Learn from Dementia Enquirers about Epistemic Injustice? YouTube Round table discussion with David Crepaz-Keay from Mental Health Foundation, George Rook (living with dementia) , Anna Berqvist from Philosophy MMU and Lubomira Radoilska on how the views of people with dementia are typically given less value and status than the knowledge of other stakeholders and why this is both unjust and intellectually unfounded.

7 March 2023. EBM+ workshop. Organised by Michael Wilde. (HMG)

What?: “Meet the author” session with Prof. Trish Greenhalgh (Oxford).
When?: 3-5pm, Tuesday 7th March, 2023.
Where?: Online on MS Teams. (Please contact Michael for the link: m.e.wilde@kent.ac.uk.)

Please join us for a “meet the author” session with Prof. Trish Greenhalgh (Oxford) to discuss the recent paper: Greenhalgh T, Fisman D, Cane DJ, et al. Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent, BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2022;27:253-260.

3-4pm: Reading group on the paper.
4-5pm: Discussion with Prof. Trish Greenhalgh.

25 January 2023.Round table on Scientific Authorship and Collective Responsibility with Erik Malmqvist and Dr. Olle Blomberg, University of Gothenburg, Organised by Lubomira Radoilska

18 January 2023. Identifying and Overcoming Epistemic Injustice in Health and Social Care. St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Hybrid conference. Organised by Lubomira Radoilska

31 May 2022: Symposium on Diversity of Evidence. (MINANS) 12-6pm, KLT2. Organised by Alexandra Trofimov and Jon Williamson.

1-3 June 2021: Philosophy and Methodology of Medicine. Organised by Michael Wilde in collaboration with LMU.

11 June 2019: New directions in medical methodology, University of Kent, 11.30am-5pm, W1-SR5. To attend please contact Jon Williamson.

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11.30-12. Alexandra Trofimov: Clarifying the duty to inform. Video
12-12.30. Michael Wilde: Expanding the notion of evidence in evidence-based medicine. Video
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2.15-2.45. Jon Williamson: Evidential proximity, independence, and the evaluation of carcinogenicity. Video
2.45-3.15. Daniel Auker-Howlett: Domain expertise in evidence evaluation. Video
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3.45-4.15. Virginia Ghiara: Collecting mechanistic evidence to design and evaluate immunisation programmes. Video
4.15-4.45. David Corfield: Health methodology and the psychosomatic approach to medicine. Video

This workshop will explore practical consequences of recent philosophical work on health. Talks will be accessible to the general public. The workshop is organised by the Health Methodology Group of the Centre for Reasoning at the University of Kent. This group works on the foundations of evidence-based medicine and values-based healthcare, as well as concepts of health and disease and problems to do with medicine and the law.

5 February 2019: Symposium on Health Methodology, University of Kent, 3-5.30pm. To attend please contact Jon Williamson.

Daniel Auker-Howlett: “Evaluating Evaluating evidence of mechanisms in medicine
David Corfield: “How to understand ‘placebo’ and ‘psychosomatic’”

Virginia Ghiara: “New quality assessment tools for the NHS”
Michael Wilde: “Mechanistic evidence in medical consensus conferences”

This symposium will explore present some new work of the Health Methodology Group of the Centre for Reasoning at the University of Kent. This group works on the foundations of evidence-based medicine and values-based healthcare, as well as concepts of health and disease and problems to do with medicine and the law.