SCHOOL OF APPLIED SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CRITICAL VOICES NETWORK IRELAND

Mad knowledge has been historically invalidated by academic and professional disciplines. Despite the rhetoric of ‘social inclusion’ and ‘co-production’, service users/survivors/Mad people continue to be viewed as non-credible knowers in relation to their own experiences. This is a form of injustice that renders them powerless within the systems that are meant to support them. This year’s conference provides opportunities to consider Mad knowledge and the challenges involved in learning with and from Madness and distress. This conference will consider:

• The diversity of Mad knowledge
• The processes that marginalise Mad knowledge
• Issues of credibility and representation
• What it means to learn from Mad knowledge
• The implications of this learning for education and practice systems
• How we create environments to honour, and nurture Mad knowledge

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN 

In-person Registration:

Booking: Email Harry Gijbels at h.gijbels@ucc.ie and make sure you give your name and indicate the day(s) you wish to attend (either Wednesday 15 November, Thursday 16 November, or both days). Booking will be confirmed by return email. Please bring the booking confirmation slip (hard or electronic copy) with you to the conference registration desk on the day(s) you are attending.

Online Registration: 

For 5 Keynote Presentations only. Click here.

Programme Schedule: Click Here

Book of Abstracts: Click Here

 (In alphabetical order)

• Lisa Archibald, Co-Director/ Training Coordinator, Intentional Peer Support and Mad Studies Student, Scotland
• Sarah Carr, Independent Mental Health and Social Care Knowledge Consultant, Survivor Researcher and ex-Academic, and Tina Coldham, Mental Health User Consultant, Trainer & Researcher, England
• Owen Ó Tuama, Voice-hearer, Psych-Survivor, Peer Specialist, Gardener, Musician, Barman, Amateur Natural Historian, NW Ireland, Borderlands
• Lykourgos Karatzaferis, Psychiatrist, co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network Athens, and another speaker to be confirmed, Greece
• Lydia Sapouna, Lecturer, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, co-founder of the Critical Voices Network, Ireland