I have been introduced to ‘doomscrolling’ this morning by @LAS99442599 from Waiting Times Thought provoking papers from all speakers this morning #TimeofCare

I was sad not to make it to London, but feel delighted to have been able to drop in online to the Waiting Times conference, to hear some insightful reflections and to celebrate a really innovative and important project - huge congratulations to the whole team ✨🌟✨

Our latest New Associations includes Lisa Baraitser On being with others ‘now.’ "Yet those who cannot pay for psychotherapy continue to be effectively locked out of psychoanalytic time” Subscribe here: bit.ly/subscribetoNA Read back issues here: bit.ly/archiveofNA

Raluca Soreanu presenting a paper about money and psychoanalytic convertibility at the final Waiting Times conference. Together with Lisa Baraitser they did research on the psychic life of the time, care, and waiting.

New publication! Chapter by ⁦@SalsLaura⁩ ‘Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophe’, open access. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

📢Social Research for the Public Good: Anxiety 📅May 17 2023 📍@birkbeckuol 👉bit.ly/3pseJt9 Katie Pybus china mills (she/her) Dr Sarah Marks & Joanna Farr in conversation w. Karen Wells🏳️‍🌈 for this free event looking at the ways the cost of living crisis affects mental health

📢Social Research for the Public Good: Anxiety 📅17/05📍Birkbeck, University of London Exploring the relationship between the #CostOfLiving crisis + anxiety #mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwareness Dr Sarah Marks china mills (she/her) Joanna Farr Katie Pybus Karen Wells🏳️‍🌈 Mental Health Foundation bit.ly/3IcVjil

Tomorrow! Dr Sarah Marks on how New Labour introduced the 1st major national rollout of talking treatments for anxiety, AND instrumentalised psychotherapy to get people off benefits. Our panel 6.15pm book here bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_… w/ china mills (she/her) DeathsByWelfare Katie Pybus

In the first post of Waiting Times's takeover of the The Polyphony, Lisa Baraitser and Laura Salisbury introduce the project's key findings and research strands, and ask "what principles and practices are worth waiting for?" thepolyphony.org/2023/08/01/int…

Continuing Waiting Times's takeover of The Polyphony, @DrKelechiAnucha brings together work from the project's "Waiting in Late Times" research strand to think through "the meanwhiles" of post-war cultures of care in Britain and the US thepolyphony.org/2023/08/02/the…

Throughout the last 75 years one particular figure has 'haunted' the NHS: the 'frequent attender'. In Waiting Times's third takeover post, Stephanie Davies and Martin Moore think through repetition, chronicity and temporalities of care thepolyphony.org/2023/08/03/fre…

In today's takeover post, Lisa Baraitser and Laura Salisbury (Laura Salisbury) explore Time Being, a short film by Deborah Robinson and Ruairí Corr commissioned by Waiting Times, via Merleau-Ponty's notion of the 'chiasm' and crip time thepolyphony.org/2023/08/04/chi…

In the fifth post of Waiting Times's takeover of The Polyphony, Jordan Osserman draws attention to the 'untimely' nature of youth gender care in the UK thepolyphony.org/2023/08/07/gen…

In the latest takeover post, @michaeljflexer reflects on the Waiting Times project's collaborative 'co-creating' of research and online 'living archive' thepolyphony.org/2023/08/08/wha…

The seventh post of Waiting Times's takeover of The Polyphony is @EdGarland9 and Amy Grandvoinet's collaborative review of Martin O'Brien's 'The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin)', a performance and installation at the Horse Hospital in London thepolyphony.org/2023/08/09/at-…

In the final post of the Waiting Times takeover, @DrKelechiAnucha and Stephanie Davies distil the pressing questions and key research strands emerging from 'The Time of Care' conference thepolyphony.org/2023/08/10/the…

Open access from today via BIROn: "A waiting crisis?" By Laura Salisbury, Lisa Baraitser J Catty, K. Anucha, Stephanie Davies, @michaeljflexer, Ossermania and Martin Moore In: The Lancet 401 (10375), pp. 428-429 eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5064…

💡@wcceh Seminar: Timely/Untimely Care ⏰Thu 26 Oct 2023 3:00-4:30 PM (BST) @SalsLaura, Martin Moore & @michaeljflexer will share their findings from the Waiting Times Project Waiting Times whatareyouwaitingfor.org.uk 📍Register at tickettailor.com/events/wellcom…

Read this wonderful report on Jenny Mitchell 's Poetry and Time workshop by our very own Dr Kelechi Anucha @DrKelechiAnucha waitingtimes.exeter.ac.uk/2023/10/11/rep…