This is a free event but you must register at the following site to attend http://healthinformation.eventbrite.co.uk/
Description:
Date: Thursday 24th May
Time: 4:00 - 5:30pm
Speaker: Vicky Grant
Cost: Free
Venue: 1st floor conference room in ICOSS, 219 Portobello ,Sheffield, S1 4DP
Vicky Grant is the Faculty Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Health here at the UoS. She started work as a library assistant in what was the Main Library, in 1987. Since then she has undertaken undergraduate studies in librarianship and an M.Ed in Higher Education. She is now a PhD Student undertaking cross-disciplinary research between the School of English and the Medical School. Her research interests include auto-ethnography, health narrative, knowing as healing and health inclusion.
In this talk, entitled Health information obesity: the new epidemic?, Vicky will look at how patients are using health information from the net and will question the validity of government initiatives to give patients more information. She will argue that what patients actually need is more equitable access to medical research and improved levels of information literacy, including the skills to think critically about the health information they are reading. She will ask you to consider whether open access and open data publishing are matters of medical ethics and will argue that more equitable access to health information could challenge the health inequalities which continue to pervade our society.
Refreshments will be provided
This is a free event but you must register at the following site to attend http://healthinformation.eventbrite.co.uk/
For more information please contact Carly Miller - thebradfordlibrarian@gmail.com
Twitter: @millieshoes
