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From early career to lifetime achievement: Winners of the 2025 ISCHP Career Awards

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Written by Gareth Treharne

At this year’s 14th Biennial International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) in Galway in July, a range of outstanding critical health psychology scholars were recognised at the 2025 ISCHP Career Awards ceremony. Picture this: a lively university bar filled with conference delegates, many with a pint of Guinness in hand; the band was yet to arrive, so the dancing hadn’t started; the crowd dutifully gathered for the Oscars of critical health psychology.

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Finding refuge, making connections: ISCHP 2025 in Galway, Ireland

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Written by Siobhán Healy-Cullen and Jessica Tappin

In early July, the University of Galway’s School of Psychology hosted the 14th biennial International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) conference, bringing together 200 delegates from 31 countries. As early career researchers (ECRs), this was our first chance to meet with the ISCHP community face-to-face, and we happily embraced the 30-plus-hour journey from Aotearoa New Zealand to Ireland’s west coast.

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The Shock of the New? A review of the 2024 In Sickness In Health Conference 

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By Liz McKibben

Photo by Phill Brown on Unsplash

Alright! Sign me up!  

This reaction was unusual for me. I don’t really like conferences. I’d rather sit snuggled up at home and read an article than watch somebody narrate their PowerPoint slides. They often feel like a self-serving platform that we attend just to plump up our academic CVs. Surely, I’m not the only person who gets unbelievably bored? Maybe this one will be different. I was seduced by the promise of shocking newness. 

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Taking on the mainstream – Our symposium at the EHPS conference

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By Wendy Stainton Rogers

Arial view overlooking Bratislavský hrad (Bratislava Castle). Photo by Martin Katler on Unsplash

Bratislava in Slovakia is a beautiful city, and this was my initial motive for getting to the EHPS 2022 conference. I know it well, having first visited in 1990, not that long after the massive ‘Velvet Revolution’ student protest filled the streets there, following the dismantling of the Berlin Wall a few days earlier. In a matter of weeks the former Soviet states of Eastern Europe overthrew communism – a move made possible by the Russian President, Mikhail Gorbachev, and his policies of perestroika and glasnost (Do look them up if you don’t know them, they paint a very different Russia from Putin’s Soviet Era today).

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How do men’s magazine talk about penises?

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As February begins we in the ISCHP website editing office, look to our next interesting article. The following was produced by Craig Owen and Christine Campbell following a pecha kucha presented at ISCHP’s 2017 conference. Dee and Neda.

In this blog post, Craig Owen and Christine Campbell showcase their recently published research which won the prize for best Pecha Kucha presentation at the 2017 ISCHP conference (1).

This is an adaptation of the paper presented and that can be readily viewed on You Tube.

Constructions of masculinity have shifted and changed but the central role of the penis has remained firm. Indeed, the very word ‘manhood’ is synonymous with both masculinity and the penis. Continue reading →

Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) conference – a safe space for qual researchers (immediately before ISCHP 2017!)

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By Sarah Riley, QMiP 2017 Conference Chair (edited by Gareth Treharne)

Details of conference: https://www.bps.org.uk/events/conferences/qualitative-methods-psychology-section-bi-annual-conference-2017

“Conferences are liturgical celebrations, affirmations of solidarity, symbolic spaces for those who speak a language (whether socialism or orthodontics) unintelligible to most of their fellow-humans, and who therefore need from time to time to relax with those of their own kind, as a cross-dresser might feel the gathering urge to withdraw from the world of the bank or bakery and ease into a pair of corsets” Terry Eagleton The Gatekeeper

Being amongst kind is important for all academics. But when it came to organising the British Psychology Society’s Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) conference in 2017 this need felt particularly salient. To this end, QMiP’s aims have been to provide a safe space as well as an exciting space.

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Next ISCHP to be held in Loughborough, 9-12th July

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The next ISCHP conference will be held at Loughborough University, UK from 9-12th July 2017. For more details please see here or contact Elizabeth Peel (e.peel@lboro.ac.uk). 1435754559_uploaded