Cancelled: Opening of the Social Sciences Centre for Health and Well-being

Do you have insight into all the health and well-being related research that is done within our faculty – and the colleagues doing this work? Are you interested in exchanging knowledge, discussing emerging topics and getting to know new colleagues in this domain? Then the new Social Sciences Center for Health and Well-being may be something for you!

On March 26th (15.15-17.00), the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences will open its new center which will be the faculty’s branch of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health (see https://www.rug.nl/aletta/) and will represent all BSS researchers within Aletta. The opening will take place at the Bovenkamer (http://www.debovenkamervangroningen.nl/). Our dean will officially open the center.

In only 5 min each, 6 BSS colleagues will present their health research in flash talks to jump start our conversation!

The aim of the center is to bring together researchers within our faculty working on health and well-being related topics. The center will be built around 3 different themes:  Health in social context, Healthy Ageing and Health Interventions. The center will organize lunch meetings (approximately 4 times a year) in which we touch on discussions (theoretical, methodological, applied) that  are central in the Social Sciences. The center will also continue and broaden the work of the BSS Healthy Ageing initiative by organizing a yearly symposium (formerly Symposium on Healthy Ageing: Perspectives from the Behavioural and Social Sciences) and Healthy Ageing colloquia (about 3 times a year). An additional goal is to showcase to the outside world our faculty's contribution to research in the area of Health and Well-being.

Come join us for the opening and give input into the setup of the Center! The dean will officially open the center and there will be 6 short talks by staff members representing the three different themes: Health in social context, Healthy ageing, and Health Interventions.

You can register for the opening here

Program opening

Schedule: 15:15 to 17.30

15:15 - 16:15 Talks

16.15-16.30   Break

16:30 - 17:00   Interaction - World Cafe

16.30-17.30   Drinks

The Talks

1. Dean       Kees Aarts     5 min   Why Aletta GMW?
2. Aletta       Jochen Mirau     5 min   Why Aletta?
3. Aletta GMW     Katherine Stroebe   10 min   Our goals
4. Susanne Scheibe   5 min   Psy   Ageing, well-being emotions
5. Karin Pilz (experimental psychology)Ageing, cognitive
6. Charmaine Borg   5 min   Psy   mental health  
7. Annita Kobes     5 min   Peda   Obesitas
8. Liesbeth Heise     5 min   Soc   Refugees
9. Tom Postmes     5 min   Psy   Earthquakes

Break

World cafe (16:30 to 17:00)

• The visitors are grouped in smaller teams that discuss a question/topic, followed by one switch of teams (at the bell), and another question/topic.
• Thoughts are written on post its and attached to ‘sticky walls’
• Question 1: What are the most important health related questions in the social sciences to focus on for Aletta?
• Question 2: What kind of topics would you like to cover within our brown-bag meetings