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Programme

Tuesday, 20th June

Venue: Western Gateway Building

Day

Time Start

Time End

Location

Session Title

Speakers

Tues

09:30

 

Atrium

Registration

 

Tues

10:30

11:00

WGB 107

Opening Ceremony

Professor John O’Halloran, President, University College Cork

Nicole Müller; Srikant Sarangi

Tues

11:00

12:00

WGB 107

Plenary Lecture 1                                                                              Chair: Srikant Sarangi

Professor Hossam Hamdy

Systems thinking in teaching, learning, and assessment of communication in health professions education

Hossam Hamdy

Tues

12:15

13:15

Atrium

Lunch

 

Tues

13:15

14:55

WGB G02

Oral Presentation Session 1                                                      Chair: Anne Marie Devlin

 

 

 

 

 

Implementing a ward-level intervention to improve handover practices

Liza Goncharov

 

 

 

 

Father and child in child health care: an ethnographic study of institutional practices

Camilla Rindstedt

 

 

 

 

A Direct Patient-Provider Relationship with the Medical Physicist Reduces Anxiety in Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy

Lauren Hamel

Tues

13:15

14:55

WGB G08

Oral Presentation Session 2                                                                Chair: Martin J. Ball

 

 

 

 

 

(Un)certainty and risk communication on Covid-19 vaccines: a comparison between civilian and military discourse

Roxanne Doerr

 

 

 

 

Storytelling in popularising science:

good and bad practices at the outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic

Annalisa Zanola

 

 

 

 

What are the challenges in managing complex communication coaching in post-Covid healthcare students?

Katharine Heathcock

Tues

13:15

14:55

WGB G14

Oral Presentation Session 3                                                    Chair: Keelin O’Donoghue

 

 

 

 

 

Argumentative narratives of vaccination experience during the Covid-19 pandemic

Carlotta Fiammenghi

 

 

 

 

Assembling methamphetamine: A corpus based discourse analysis of an online forum for users of crystal meth

Andrew Lustig

 

 

 

 

Experience of Dying:  Concerns on Palliative Care for A Parkinson’s Disease Patient

Pauline Luk

Tues

13:15

14:55

WGB G15

Panel: Communication Ethics in Healthcare Encounters

Srikant Sarangi

 

 

 

 

Adopting the communication ethics framework to explore Muslim immigrant women’s experiences with healthcare in Canada 

Rukhsana Ahmed

 

 

 

 

Communication ethics and the discourses surrounding perinatal death

Giuditta Caliendo, Lola Marinato

Tues

13:15

14:55

WGB G09

Work in Progress                                                                                    Chair: Judith Oxley

 

 

 

 

 

Common Conditions, Competing Narratives: The case of obesity/fatness

Margaret Steele

 

 

 

 

Prostate cancer patients consulting in radiation oncology: information recall and psychological distress profiles

Stephanie Fox

 

 

 

 

Comparing online rare disease testimonies: Preliminary results

Laura Ferrarotti

Tues

14:55

15:20

Atrium

Refreshments

 

Tues

15:20

17:00

WGB G02

Oral Presentation Session 1                                                               Chair: Kirk St Amant

 

 

 

 

 

Nurses’ perceptions of politeness while giving advice during intercultural communication for a healthcare environment

Badryah Alalawi

 

 

 

 

Authentic methods to explore their health and well-being effects from participation in recreational activities, with non-verbal and non-ambulant children with cerebral palsy: A case series design

Dawn Pickering

 

 

 

 

Communication needs and health and social support for disabled people from minoritised ethnic groups during the pandemic: findings and co-designed recommendations from the CICADA study 

Carol Rivas

Tues

15:20

17:00

WGB G08

Oral Presentation Session 2                                                                   Chair: Owen Kelly

 

 

 

 

 

Developing and Testing an Ecological Momentary Assessment Smartphone App for Sensitive Health Data in Peru

Archana Krishnan

 

 

 

 

‘Catching Stories’ of infectious disease in Ireland: bringing oral history and cultural heritage platforms together with biomedical commentary

Cliona O’Carroll

 

 

 

 

The Sten-O mhealth app – a supportive communication tool in Type 1 Diabetes education for newly diagnosed children and their parents

Diana Schack Thoft

Tues

15:20

17:00

WGB G14

Panel: Leveraging the distributed expertise of parents and professionals to promote social-communication-cognitive development in a young girl with Sturge-Weber Syndrome

Judith Oxley, Katherine Hays, Christine P. Weill

 

 

 

 

The evolving therapeutic challenges of case management of a child with Sturge-Weber syndrome

Judith Oxley, Amanda Rivera

 

 

 

 

Balancing service delivery to promote the acquisition of functional speech within the context of overall development

Katherine Hays, Judith Oxley

 

 

 

 

Narrative development via multi-modal means to reduce cognitive load and maximise participation and social agency

Christine P. Weill, Judith Oxley, Holly Damico

Tues

15:20

17:00

WGB G15

Panel: Communication Ethics in Healthcare Encounters (continued)

Srikant Sarangi

 

 

 

 

Authority, expertise and experience: reconsidering the ethics of patient centred care 

Alison Pilnick

 

 

 

 

Communication challenges when conducting research with vulnerable populations: ethical and methodological considerations 

Fiona Wood, Victoria Shepherd, Monica Busse

 

 

 

 

Delineating the communication ethics framework in healthcare encounters 

Srikant Sarangi

Tues

15:20

17:00

WGB G09

Work in Progress                                                                           Chair: Matilda Bradford

 

 

 

 

 

Team Care for the Care Team: When Collaboration is in Crisis

Stephanie Fox

 

 

 

 

Communication Privacy Management in an Online Instagram Support Community for Adolescents and Young Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Caeli Molloy

 

 

 

 

Endometriosis in the Media: A corpus-based analysis in the written press

Julie Humbert-Droz

Tues

17:00

18:00

WGB

Welcome Reception

 

Wednesday, 21st June

Venue: Western Gateway Building

Wed

08:00

09:00

WGB

Registration

 

Wed

09:00

09:15

WGB 107

Welcome Remarks Day 2

 

Wed

09:15

09:30

WGB 107

Announcement of COMET 2024

 

Wed

09:30

10:30

WGB 107

Plenary Lecture 2                                                                                Chair: Nicole Müller

Professor Mary Catherine Beach

Moral dimensions of respect expressed through language in healthcare

Mary Catherine Beach

Wed

10:30

11:00

WGB

Refreshments

 

Wed

11:00

12:40

WGB G02

Oral Presentation Session 1                                                             Chair: Andrew Lustig

 

 

 

 

 

Doctors Can Step Into the ‘Rough Ground’ with Confidence: Confirmed Route to Cultivate Practical Wisdom in Ethical Decision-Making for the Medical Community

Mervyn Conroy

 

 

 

 

Mapping the patient world in predictive Huntington's testing

Matilda Bradford

 

 

 

 

Polyphony in the pediatric clinic: Parents reporting teachers’ talk as a resource for building deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances among caregivers

Federica Ranzani

Wed

11:00

12:40

WGB G08

Oral Presentation Session 2                                                         Chair: Elena Babatsouli

 

 

 

 

 

Now I can understand you and participate!

Katrien Horions

 

 

 

 

Skills4HL course for healthcare students to improve health literacy for people at risk of dementia

Charlotte Brun Thorup

 

 

 

 

IDEAHL - Reviewing best practices for Digital Health Literacy interventions

Charlotte Brun Thorup

Wed

11:00

12:40

WGB G14

Oral Presentation Session 3                                                    Chair: Catherine Sweeney

 

 

 

 

 

Discursive and Textual Strategies to Construct Credibility in Narratives of Contested Illnesses

Roxana Delbene

 

 

 

 

Learning from the lived experiences of patients with cancer

Theresa O’Donovan

 

 

 

 

“Papa, i’m not your wife”: Role-relational disjunction in interview accounts of caring for a relative with dementia

Bartlomiej Kruk

Wed

11:00

12:40

WGB G15

Panel: Family experiences of Long Covid: exploring communication between general practitioners and families through interactive theatre workshops

Anna Dowrick, Performing Medicine, Cervantée Wild

 

 

 

 

Patient/healthcare practitioner communication issues for families affected by Long Covid

Cervantée Wild

 

 

 

 

Compassionate communication through uncertainty: Interactive forum theatre performance

Performing Medicine

 

 

 

 

Reflections on arts-based research approaches: discussion between researchers, performers and the audience

Anna Dowrick, Performing Medicine, Cervantée Wild

Wed

11:00

12:40

WGB G09

Work in Progress                                                                                 Chair: Aoife Fleming

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding dementia together: evaluation of a collaborative interdisciplinary workshop

Trish O’Sullivan

 

 

 

 

Public Health Communication: Analysis of coherence indicators in institutional and non-institutional texts

Sibilla Parlato

 

 

 

 

The #longcovid revolution: a reflexive thematic analysis of Twitter users' social construction of long covid

Melody Turner

Wed

12:40

13:30

Atrium

Lunch

 

Wed

12:45

13:45

Atrium

Research Networking: COMET meets UCC Futures

 

Wed

13:30

17:10

Atrium

Poster Presentations with Refreshments

 

Wed

15:30

17:10

WGB G02

Oral Presentation Session 1                                                        Chair: Rukhsana Ahmed

 

 

 

 

 

Ensuring bereaved parents are seen and heard: Using graphic medicine to affect change in perinatal death review processes

Marita Hennessy

 

 

 

 

The Role of the Internet and Telemedicine in Doctor-Patient Communication

Alexandra Csongor

 

 

 

 

Stigma and Cosmetic Surgery Discourse: Representations and Perceptions of the Body

Roxanne Padley

Wed

15:30

17:10

WGB G08

Panel: Communicating diagnostic uncertainty: An empirical ethics approach.

Caitriona Cox, Thea Hatfield, Zoe Fritz

 

 

 

 

Examining the communication of diagnostic uncertainty using vignette methodology: how is it done, why is it done, and what is the impact? 

Catriona Cox

 

 

 

 

What is thought, what is said, and what is heard: an ethnography of diagnosis in acute medical settings.

Thea Hatfield

 

 

 

 

Legal and ethical aspects of communicating diagnostic uncertainty: what duties do doctors have?

Zoe Fritz

Wed

15:30

17:10

WGB G14

Panel: Applying Usability Approaches to Health Medical Communication Contexts

Kirk St Amant, Darina Slattery, Ella Goodwin

 

 

 

 

Usability for contexts of care: applying psychological concepts to create usable content for the health and medical industries

Kirk St Amant

 

 

 

 

Determining faculty and student requirements for usable learning management systems in health and medical education

Darina Slattery

 

 

 

 

Culture and ecosystems of care: a framework for understanding international health and medical contexts

Ella Goodwin

Wed

18:15

 

 

Special Guided Viewing of “Catching Stories of Infectious Diseases in Ireland” at UCC’s Boole Library

(https://libguides.ucc.ie/ExhibInfectiousDisease)

 

Wed

20:00

 

 

Conference Dinner, River Lee Hotel

Accompanied by the Traditional Irish Music Group, Uilleann Ceoil

 

Thursday, 22nd June

Venue: Western Gateway Building

Thurs

08:00

09:15

Atrium

Registration

 

Thurs

09:15

09:30

WGB 107

Welcome Remarks Day 3

 

Thurs

09:30

10:30

WGB 107

Plenary Lecture 3                                                                         Chair: Colm Ó Tuathaigh

Dr Caroline Jagoe

Discriminatory epistemic injustice: The silencing of communication disability in research practices

Caroline Jagoe

Thurs

10:30

11:00

Atrium

Refreshments

 

Thurs

11:00

12:40

WGB G02

Oral Presentation Session 1                                                         Chair: Marita Hennessy

 

 

 

 

 

The Communication Experiences of Patients and Family Members Referred to Specialist Palliative Care Services: A Qualitative Exploration

Mohamad Saab

 

 

 

 

Ethical Issues in Using Social Media Data for Dementia Detection:  a qualitative study of older adult social media users

Jude Mikal

 

 

 

 

Who owns language? The ethics of using online translation software in healthcare education

Averil Grieve

Thurs

11:00

12:40

WGB G08

Panel: Cognitive decline and sensory and communication difficulties

Amr El Refaie

 

 

 

 

Care as usual for vision and hearing for persons with dementia in Irish nursing homes

Nicole Müller, Avrin Condon, Sarah Stanley, JP Connelly

 

 

 

 

SENSE-Cog Residential Care: Adapting a sensory support intervention for residents with dementia in nursing homes in Ireland

Iracema Leroi, Nicole Müller, Amr El Refaie

 

 

 

 

What is the knowledge of care staff and the use of hearing aids in Irish Nursing Homes? A pilot study

Laura Sheehy, Siobhan Laoide-Kemp, Amr El Refaie

Thurs

11:00

12:40

WGB G14

Panel: Integrating Narrative Medicine in a Pediatric Clinical Setting: Understanding the Illness Experience of Children While Improving Health Outcomes

Julie Aultman, Nicole Robinson, Daniel Grossoehme

 

 

 

 

Narrative medicine workshops and interventions for pediatric patients and families

Nicole Robinson

 

 

 

 

Guiding pediatric clinical care practices through narrative medicine and ethics

Julie M. Aultman

 

 

 

 

Illness narratives in a pediatric hospital: research

Daniel H. Grossoehme

Thurs

11:00

12:40

WGB G09

Work in Progress                                                                              Chair: Liza Goncharov

 

 

 

 

 

Moving towards a better understanding of well-being for children with complex disabilities who use a robotic device, the Innowalk ©Made for Movement

Dawn Pickering

 

 

 

 

When a Medical Consultation is a Challenge: A Pilot Study on Language Use and Healthcare Outcomes for Galicians in the Canton of Zurich

Vanesa Rodriguez Tembrás

 

 

 

 

Mapping the gaps and challenges for patients and healthcare providers in terms of ethical consideration of existing technologies in healthcare

Georgia Livieri

Thurs

12:40

13:30

Atrium

Lunch

 

Thurs

13:30

15:10

WGB G02

Oral Presentation Session 1                                                                Chair: Brent Wilson

 

 

 

 

 

Communication is Key: Training the art of delivering aphasia friendly services to persons with communication disorders and differences

Jennifer Brello

 

 

 

 

Shared goal setting in the context of Dutch Speech and Language Therapy: Multi stakeholder perspectives

Laurien Brauner

 

 

 

 

Advancing phonetic transcription skills for communicative disorders: Training SLPs with live data

Elena Babatsouli

Thurs

13:30

15:10

WGB G08

Oral Presentation Session 2                                                          Chair: Rintaro Imafuku

 

 

 

 

 

Metaphorical Representations of Dementia in the UK Press

Gavin Brookes

 

 

 

 

Front-line heroes or trained professionals. The image of nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers in news texts during the COVID-19 pandemic. A corpus analysis

Georg Marko

 

 

 

 

A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity in the UK press

Luke Collins

Thurs

13:30

15:10

WGB G14

Panel: The role of and challenges for Healthcare Professionals in provision of Termination of Pregnancy services in Ireland since 2019

Keelin O’Donoghue, Deirdre Hayes Ryan, Claire Murray, Mary Donnelly

 

 

 

 

Termination of pregnancy services: introduction of services in Ireland, training needs and challenges

Deirdre Hayes Ryan

 

 

 

 

Conscientious provision of abortion care: clinician experiences of early medical abortion

Claire Murray, Mary Donnelly

 

 

 

 

Fetal medicine specialist experiences of providing a new service of termination of pregnancy for fatal fetal anomaly

Keelin O’Donoghue

Thurs

13:30

15:10

WGB G09

Work in Progress                                                                                     Chair: Shauna Bell

 

 

 

 

 

Listening WITH a human being is an ethical choice

Corine Jansen

 

 

 

 

Flourishing in Strengths: An Investigation of the Development of a Strengths Perspective in Student Clinicians

Patricia Arias Hunt

 

 

 

 

Doing ethics - manifestations of moralities in sexual and reproductive health discourse in Côte d'Ivoire

Laura Guadagnano

Thurs

15:10

15:45

WGB 107

COMET Open Forum and Closing Ceremony

 

COMET Conference 2023

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