How patients talk: Metaphors, Cancer and the End of Life, seminar with Prof. Elena Semino, Univerity of Lancaster, UK. Dr Elena Semino, a full professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University (United Kingdom), is an internationally renowned teacher and researcher and an expert when it comes to analysing the language used by patients and health professionals to…
We at the Hestia Chair seek to promote research focused on improving the provision of social healthcare and mental health services and the care of complex chronic patients with significant social needs. To do so, we have organised the 2nd call for Hestia Research Grants. This call includes 4 grants, each of which is worth…
The Hestia Chair organises the first Expert Meeting on Integrated Health and Social Care This is the first time that the UIC Barcelona chair, sponsored by the Hestia Foundation, has gathered this many professionals to discuss society’s biggest health concerns On Wednesday 7 November, representatives from five Autonomous Communities met at UIC Barcelona to…
The Auditorium on the Sant Cugat Health Campus played host to the ceremony of the 2018 Hestia Awards for Excellence in Social Healthcare and Mental Health Research, organised by the Hestia Chair in Integrated Health and Social Care. Altogether, the first edition recorded 68 submitted projects from various autonomous communities, such as Aragon, Andalusia,…
The awards ceremony for the Hestia Awards 2018, an initiative promoted by the Hestia Chair at UIC Barcelona and the Fundación Hestia in order to recognise high quality research in the field of social and health care and mental health. We will also have a lecture by Dr. Miguel Caínzos, empidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public…
Following the success of the 1st edition of the Hestia Research Grants, we see the arrival of the Hestia Awards 2018 for for Excellence in Health and Social Care and Mental Health Research. The call, from the Hestia Chair in Integrated Health and Social Care, promoted by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) and…
Through these endowments, the Hestia Chair in Integrated Health and Social Care seeks to support research projects led by professionals, teams and institutions that care for vulnerable people with high health and social care needs. The event, held in the Auditorium on the Sant Cugat Health Campus, was presided by Dr Xavier Corbella, director of…
On the 15th November 2017, the Scientific committee for the 1st call for Hestia Research Grants made up of Dr Xavier Corbella and Dr Miquel Fernandez from the Hestia Chair and Dr Angels Canas and Dr Susana Subira from the Fundació Hestia. Of the 38 projects presented, the committee selected 12 projects for funding from…