OxTalks will soon be transitioning to Oxford Events (full details are available on the Staff Gateway). A two-week publishing freeze is expected to start before the end of Hilary Term to allow all future events to be migrated to the new platform. During this period, you will not be able to submit or edit events on OxTalks. The exact freeze dates will be confirmed on the Staff Gateway and via email to identified OxTalks users.
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Please join us for the Oxford Pain Network Seminar, taking place on the third Friday of every month in the Newsom-Davis Room, OxCIN Annexe and online (email the organiser or join the mailing list for the link). Each meeting will have a different speaker, either internal or external to the University, followed by a short Q&A.
Open to all researchers/students/clinical staff in Oxford interested in pain research. For more details about future events, please join the mailing list: oxin-paingroup-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk
February’s speaker: Catherine Borra is a doctoral researcher at UCL’s Social Research Institute and studies the relationship between chronic pain conditions and menopause. Her research sits between population health and medical anthropology, and is characterised by a mixed-methods approach with a strong focus on impact. She is funded by the ESRC and BBSRC through the Soc B Centre for Doctoral Training in biosocial research.
She has a clinical background in pain management physiotherapy, pelvic health and musculoskeletal health – having worked in various NHS trusts for over ten years. She has been working in clinical research in the NHS since 2019.
Talk Abstract: Long-term pain is more common in females, with sex differences emerging in puberty and continuing into later life. The midlife is a critical time for widespread pain conditions. In this talk, I will outline epidemiological and ethnographic research on life course predictors of midlife pain, and its intersection with perimenopause.
