Getting in Touch with Touch – Festival of Social Science 2025, 30 October | Event in Salford | AllEvents

Getting in Touch with Touch – Festival of Social Science 2025

Events Team, University of Salford

Highlights

Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am

6 hours

Salford Innovation Forum

Free Tickets Available

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Date & Location

Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm (GMT+00:00)

Salford Innovation Forum

51 Frederick Road, Salford, United Kingdom

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About the event

Getting in Touch with Touch – Festival of Social Science 2025
Festival of Social Sciences Event

About this Event

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.



Agenda


🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Introduction/warm up led by Jo Biglin – what brought you here today?

🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Keynote speaker Professor Elisabeth Hsu - University of Oxford

🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break

🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Talk by Joshi Paul Prabhu - nursing perspective

🕑: 12:05 PM - 01:00 PM
Break group discussions on touch, culture, gender, power, race

🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch

🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Talk

🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Practical learning opportunity: Clay body technique mapping, Anmo tui, Reiki

🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM
Plenary + coffee/tea – summaries/share/steps forward


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Ticket Info

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Getting in Touch with Touch – Festival of Social Science 2025, 30 October | Event in Salford | AllEvents
Getting in Touch with Touch – Festival of Social Science 2025
Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am
Free