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We invite the submission of papers for the Blood Is the Price of Coal Conference 2026

This free one-day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives. We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education.

Location: University of Warwick, Coventry,

Date: 18 June 2026.

Diversity in STEM is a set of GCSE Biology, Chemistry, and Physics resources that are designed to fit into existing lessons.

All the resources are curriculum-aligned and provide a simple, effective, and engaging way to highlight diversity in the STEM classroom.

There is an interactive website—Diversity in STEM: The Challenge—to get started: Diversity in STEM: The Challenge Interactive Website

As well as downloadable slides and lesson plans from both the website and the TES teachers’ resource portal: Diversity in STEM Slides and Lesson Plans

All resources are free to download, use and adapt. 

They were developed by Dr James Poskett at the University of Warwick with funding from the History Department and the British Academy.

The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) is an emergent field, critically examining how corporate actors and their products have shaped health and policy. Whilst studies of CDoH have deep, contemporary salience, their historical antecedents have rarely been the focus of extensive scholarly inquiry. This is surprising, given that history is replete with examples of corporate actors placing profit and/or corporate interest over individual and collective health.

This one-day in-person workshop, hosted at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will engage with the rich history of CDoH. Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, and at all career stages, it will engage with case studies from across a variety of industries, in countries and contexts across the world. In doing so, we wish to draw together contributions which probe both the empirical and methodological contributions of historical research (broadly defined) to the study of CDoH, bringing these findings into dialogue with current health problems.

More Information

Please find more details here: Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health: Call for Papers.