Upcoming Events
Normday in Trollhättan
Welcome to NormDay 2025! There are 364 ordinary days in a year. And then there is NormDay. Experience a day that stands out as truly extraordinary! Don't miss your chance to be part of an event dedicated to raising awareness of social norms and their impact on health and healthcare. This is the most important One-Day Event on Norm Consciousness and Health of the year!
Join Class of 2025
Apply to Norm-Consciousness and Health, 6,0 to 7,5 ECTS Credits Are you interested in releasing your norm creativity and your innovative learning skills about how increased elements of Norm Consciousness can be a resource-efficient way to strive towards healthcare equality and social sustainability in society?
News & previous events
Silesian University in Opava
Two workshops has been held at the Silesian University in Opava focusing on prejudices and stereotypes in the healthcare and social services. The material and instructions for the various workshops will be available on our website later this spring.
Exploring Age and Prejudices
The workshop Exploring Age and Prejudices was focused on the perception of the elderly, prejudices and stereotypes connected with this period of life. The workshop was performer for students of Nursing and students of Social pathology and prevention, Social work and Special pedagogy.
I Am a Prejudiced Group,
The workshop "I Am a Prejudiced Group," leaded the participants from healthcare and social service fields to identify and be aware of potential prejudices that patients and clients might have towards healthcare and social service providers.
Nordic Conference
On Thursday 3 and Friday 5/10 the "breaking fences" project has a poster at the 6TH NORDIC CONFERENCE IN NURSING RESEARCH NCNR. It is based on a forthcoming manuscript concerning norm-critical elements in higher education. Click the button below for the participants of the conference who want to answer some questions regarding norm criticism in higher education.
Breaking Fences Project: Multiplayes Event 1
The first multiplayes event under the Breaking Fences project took place on October 3-4, 2024, in conjunction with the 6th Nordic Conference in Nursing Research. During this event, we presented a poster that successfully engaged 280 Nordic participants. This interaction provided valuable insights and fostered meaningful discussions on the project’s objectives and outcomes. For those of you who are interested in reading about keynote speeches and a more detailed program, you can go to the link below:
Melissa Kotte PhD student together with her supervisor Professor Yvonne Wengström both at Karolinska Institutet pose in front of their poster-
Kicki Klaeson, Senior Lecturer, University West at her poster "Nursing education under the microscope - what do the trends look like within the norm-critical spectrum?"
One of the university's own doctoral students, Carina Fjällstrand, in interaction with a Danish colleague during one of the two mingle lunches at the conference
Breaking Fences Project: Multiplayes Event 2
The second multiplayes event was held on October 25, 2024, at University West. This smaller gathering included five educators from Oslo Metropolitan University who specialize in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Alongside University West's own SRHR educators, they created a "norm lab" through a collage activity. The event concluded with a group reflection on the impact of norms from various power perspectives.
Norwegian colleagues together with Kristina Areskoug Josefsson, teacher and examiner in the university’s own course in SRHR, gathered in front of the norm lab.
Norwegian colleagues during the collage activity
Class of 2024
The class learned about Norm-Consciousness and Health. Results from the workshops such as artifacts, digital material and other results have create a foundation of the Norm Lab that have been produced. We wanna thank all the students for their hard work.
Completed seminars/workshops
Tuesday, May 14 Breaking Fences project carried out a Norm-lab event at University West Campus in Trollhättan. The event posed the question to the workshop participants: What is a norm lab, and how can it be effectively utilized for health students?
BF and Innovation Week
In Sweden, 13-17 May 2024 with presentations of how to Implement a norm-creative lab in health education to promote equity and social sustainability Over 400 conference participants visited the poster and some also gave comments to the online contributions on how to break fences that was available through the poster QR codes!
New Research from BF members
New Research published by Breaking Fences members in the journal Nurse Education Today shows that teachers who are facing the task of providing norm-critical, practical education to nursing students are ambivalent towards the core principles of norm criticism, which they conceive as natural and provoking, at the same time. The article stresses that there is a need to un-dramatise norm criticism and better prepare teachers in how to use it. Teachers would benefit from follow-up activities and formal collaborations regarding norm-critical teaching, so that they are given context to discuss, reflect, and learn from each other.
