Two-day international, multidisciplinary workshop on migration and health - particularly mental health - in historical and contemporary contexts, to be held at the University of Aberdeen, April 2014. (360G-Wellcome-103466_Z_14_Z)

The application is for support towards the costs of a two-day workshop, to be held at the University of Aberdeen from 10-11 April 2014. The primary theme of the workshop is Migration and Mental Health and it will explore in greater depth issues that were raised at a panel session on migration which was held during the annual Association for Medical Humanities conference in Aberdeen in July 2013. It will also build, more specifically, on a two-day symposium to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in November 2013. The Canadian event, which is being co-organised by the applicant under the auspices of Saint Mary's University, Halifax, and the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, is entitled Medicine and Migration: historical & contemporary dimensions. Canadian speakers will be joined by the applicant and another speaker from the UK. Aberdeen University is at the forefront of Medical Humanities in Scotland and the workshop will strengthen that profile. The applicant is e ngaged in collaborative interdisciplinary work with colleagues in Aberdeen, elsewhere in Scotland, the UK, and overseas. The workshop, which is expected to attract approximately 25 participants, will enhance and expand these networks and highlight a marginalised area of study.