History News

The key purpose of the network is to stimulate and enable future research projects and applications for funding. The mimesis project, led by Prof. Steve Fuller (co-investigators Drs. Ann Adams, Frances Griffiths, Nick Lee) has three key areas: mimesis and the bio-social study of individual behaviour; mimetic factors in health behaviour across the life course; mimetic factors in modelling emergent health behaviours.

Speakers 

Prof. David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at York University (UK). He is author of Bad Medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates.  www.badmedicine.co.uk 

Prof. Stephen Stack is Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University (US). He specialises in the interdisciplinary analysis of suicidal behaviour.

Prof. Matt Keeling has joint Professorship in the Mathematics Institute and Department of Biological Science at Warwick University (UK). He specialises in the mathematical modeling of infectious disease.

Dr. Frances Griffiths is Associate Clinical Professor (Reader) and Department of Health National Career Scientist at Warwick University (UK). She specialises in complexity and emergence in health.

Further enquiries: Dr. Nick Lee, n.m.lee@warwick.ac.uk

Bookings: to book your place email Ann Ryan, Ann.Ryan@warwick.ac.uk, giving your name, institution, contact information and special dietary requirements, if any.