6 hours
Salford Innovation Forum
Free Tickets Available
Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm (GMT+00:00)
Salford Innovation Forum
51 Frederick Road, Salford, United Kingdom
This participatory workshop brings together nursing students, staff, and practitioners as well migrant and refugee nurses/carers to explore the role of touch in care. Through keynote talks, discussions, and hands-on activities, the event will consider how touch is practiced across cultures and how it intersects with issues of consent, race, class, and gender in clinical settings.
Participants will engage in:
Healing touch – practical sessions on traditional techniques such as anmo tuina and reiki.
Challenging touch – conversations on barriers and difficulties surrounding touch in healthcare.
Trans-cultural touch – sharing stories and reflecting on how cultural norms shape touch in nursing.
This is a collaborative project between the University of Salford and the University of Oxford led by Dr Josephine Biglin and Prof Elisabeth Hsu.
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General Admission | Free |