CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Online International Scientific Conference:
“LEARNING to Live and Work Together”
Microsoft Teams, June 10th 2021
University of Maribor Faculty of Health Sciences is organizing an Online International Scientific Conference entitled “LEARNING to Live and Work Together”, which will be held on June 10th 2021 via online tool Microsoft Teams in the framework of the ERASMUS+ project “LEARNING to Live and Work Together: Improving the Quality of Life for Vulnerable Migrant Students through Integrated Digital Technology Enhanced Support and Transformative Action in Higher Education” and will include most recent findings of domestic and foreign researchers in higher education, social work, nursing and other fields of healthcare.
It is a great honour for us to host three invited lectures. Dr Rebecca Murray, who’s academic research and practice focused on the marginalisation and precarity encountered by forced migrants. She is a Research Associate and a University Teacher working across the University of Sheffield’s Department of Sociological Studies and the School of Education. Dr Rusell Delderfield’s from University of Bradford research interests are person-centred practice in doctoral education and researcher development, with a passion for the power of qualitative research. The research areas of Prof John Wells, Dean of the School of Health Sciences at the Waterford Institute of Technology, are social integration and support for individuals with mental health problems, changing mental health policy, impacting quality improvement and reducing workplace related stress. The conference will be divided into three sessions after the plenary session.
The conference aims to explore the quality of life for migrant students, transformative action in higher education, advances in nursing research and education as well as advanced nursing practice experience in Slovenian and international arena. Furthermore, it will provide an opportunity for practitioners and educators to exchange research evidence, models of best practice and innovative ideas.
Book of Abstracts
*The organizer reserves the right to change the programme.
10:00 – 11:10
PLENARNI DEL / PLENARY SESSION
Moderatorja / Session Chairs: Gregor ŠTIGLIC & Sonja ŠOSTAR TURK
11:15 – 14:30
Moderatorki / Session Chairs: Barbara DONIK & Lucija GOSAK
Moderatorki / Session Chairs: Mateja LORBER & Kasandra MUSOVIĆ
Moderatorja / Session Chairs: Barbara KEGL & Nino FIJAČKO
14:30 – 14:40
PLENARNI DEL / PLENARY SESSION
Moderatorji / Session Chairs: Gregor ŠTIGLIC & Sonja ŠOSTAR TURK
Dr Rebecca Murray’s academic research and practice across the statutory and non-statutory sector focused on the marginalisation and precarity encountered by forced migrants. Rebecca is a Research Associate and a University Teacher working across the University of Sheffield’s Department of Sociological Studies and the School of Education. Rebecca graduated from the University of Sheffield after having completed her ESRC-funded PhD in the field of Human Geography. Rebecca’s doctoral thesis entitled ‘Navigating the Higher Education Border: Routes to Belonging for Forced Migrant Students in the UK & Sweden’, is a comparative study exploring the role of universities in creating 'routes to belonging' for forced migrant students in the UK and Sweden.
From 2008 - 2018, Rebecca founded and acted as the Director of the Article 26 project, which worked in partnership with UK universities to create scholarships for forced migrant students. This project has been integrated into Universities of Sanctuary and Rebecca continues her involvement as a member of the steering committee. Recent publications include the compendium of Sanctuary Scholarship resources (2018), which were created in collaboration with three UK universities, the 'Let us Learn' initiative and three sanctuary scholars supported by the project. 'Education for All' (2014) was published to support the transition from external management to mainstreaming and embedding scholarship schemes for forced migrant within university services.
Work in mental health, identity, and selfhood (particularly male eating disorders), led to Dr Russel Delderfield's involvement with University of Sanctuary, which supports forced migrant students in HE. Thanks to finding academia later in his career, he has varied research interests in person-centred practice in doctoral education and researcher development, with a passion for the power of qualitative research. He has also published in the field of reflective practice with Dr Gillie Bolton.
Professor John Wells Dean of the School of Health Science in Waterford Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow Ad Eundem of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a Visiting Professor at King's College, University of London, UK and at the University of Maribor, Slovenia.He trained as a mental health nurse and took up his first academic appointment in 1991 as a lecturer in mental health nursing at the Maudsley Hospital School of Nursing. This was followed in 1993 with an appointment as a lecturer in nursing at King's College, University of London, where he remained until 1998. He then moved to Ireland and took up a lectureship in Psychiatric Nursing based in WIT.
Professor Wells has been awarded major grants from the European Union, the Health Service Executive and the Department of Health and Children either as principal investigator or a co-investigator covering such areas as work related stress amongst European health and social care workers, employment of people with mental health problems and improving recruitment policy in relation to school leavers for psychiatric nursing and substance use and addictions. He is currently leading a pan European project on student nurse stress, which at the time of COVID, is now a central concern for the profession of nursing.
We cordially invite you to submit your abstracts.
Conference topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Social inclusion of Migrant Students and Integration into Higher Education
- Integrated Digital Technology Enhanced Support and Transformative Action in Higher Education
- Advanced Nursing Practice Experience
- Evidence Based and Informed Nursing including Safety, Caring and Care for Patients
- Research and Education in Nursing and Health Care
- Leadership in Nursing, Nursing Management and Nursing Practice
- Postgraduate Student Research
Important submission dates:
- April 7th 2021: Title and Author/Co-author Submission Deadline
- April 21th 2021: Abstract Submission Deadline (
Guidelines) - May 17th 2021: Peer Review Deadline
- May 31st 2021: Final Abstract Submission Deadline
General Information:
- Abstracts can be submitted in English or Slovenian, but must be presented in English language.
- We are requesting abstracts and not full papers; they should be structured using IMRAD.
- All abstracts will be subject to blind peer review and published in the Conference Proceedings.
- All authors will receive a Certificate of Participation.
- There is no conference fee.
- Additional information: aleksandra.lovrencic@um.si.
We look forward to your participation.
