Bolton & Wigan Research Forum in Health & Wellbeing

Festival Hall

Lancaster Suite

Loyals Lounge

9.30 - 10.00

Registration & arrival

10.00 - 10.10

Welcome & conference opening
Angela Gannon, Director of Health & Care Integration, Bolton Council
Presentation

10.10 - 10.30

Key speaker 1: Carole Truman
Can research change lives? Some thoughts on sex, wellbeing & exercise

10.30 - 10.50

Key speaker 2: Alan Beattie
Muddling through with a model? Some uses of theory in research on health, wellbing & quality of life

10.50 - 11.00

Questions

11.00 - 11.20

Break

Refreshments

11.20 - 11.45

Parallel 1F: Ryan Woolrych
The concept of wellbing: differing perspectives & their impact on measurement
Presentation

Parallel 1L: Ekhlas Al-Gamal
Anticipatory grieving among Jordanian parents living with a child with cancer
Presentation

11.45 - 11.50

Changeover

Changeover

11.50 - 12.15

Parallel 2F: Mervyn Conroy
Finding the courage to fight for ‘quality of life' in the midst of service reform
Presentation

Parallel 2L: Mark Kitching
Doctors' perceptions of the palliative care needs of patients with chronic liver disease
Presentation

12.15 - 12.45

Stall viewing

Poster viewing

12.45 - 1.45

Break

Break

Buffet lunch

1.45 - 2.10

Parallel 3F: Joe Forster
Involving end users in health building design
Presentation

Parallel 3L: Ray Holden
Are there links between theory & practice in an area regeneration programme in NW England?
Presentation

2.10 - 2.15

Changeover

Changeover

2.15 - 2.45

Parallel 4F: Diane Curry
Forgotten victims: the effects of improsonment on the health needs of prisoners families
Abstract

Parallel 4L: Carolyn Downs
The Gambling Act (2005) - Quality of life issues & the supercasino
Abstract

2.45 - 2.50

Changeover

Changeover

2.50 - 3.15

Parallel 5F: Ilana Mountian
Asylum seekers & refugees - a critical evaluation of research
Abstract

Parallel 5L: S Rajendran
Enhancing quality of healthcare for the elderly
Abstract

3.15 - 3.30

Conference close