Hestia Awards 2021

  The 4th Hestia Awards recognises research in social and health care and mental health.   This year’s Awards included a special category for projects related to COVID-19 and received 62 entries from 28 Spanish research centres.   The 2021 Hestia Awards for Excellence in Social and Health and Mental Health Research, promoted by the…

Seminar with Dr. Elena Semino

Linguist Elena Semino warns of the negative impact of war metaphors on cancer patients. The expert, who gave a lecture organised by UIC Barcelona’s Hestia Chair, has analysed 1.5 million words taken from online interviews and comments about cancer On 21 February, Elena Semino, a full professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University (United Kingdom), gave…

Seminar with Dr Elena Semino

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…