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Last week I participated and helped organize the #SocioHealthLab2020 UnConference. Here are some of my thoughts and impressions from that amazing day 
@SocioHealthlab is not a conventional lab and required an equally unconventional event. This event had aspects of both regular conferences and unconferences. We wanted to share, to connect, and most of all, to experiment in how to do health and healthcare differently.
We had insightful and different presentations (and in different formats): we had amazing poems by @BonnieBYCheng and @tbarlott . Poems not only about research findings, but also on personal experience of being sick. Of Becoming-sick.
@JenSetchell used critical race and post humanism to invite us to listen, embrace uncertainty, to not finish our sentences. @Caez_Zheng used post-colonialism to talk about the elephant in the room on Australian indigenous mental health: whiteness
I shared my PhD journey of being introduced to new readings, new ideas, new ways of talking and thinking about health. A journey of Unlearning about my perception of what it means to “be a physio”
You can see my presentation (my experiment, actually) here: https://vimeo.com/488834396
You can see my presentation (my experiment, actually) here: https://vimeo.com/488834396
@TammyAplin research was about experiences of renting in later life and @SPQueensland shared her work and reflections of using image and voice in cancer survivorship research
Lynda made me emotional when presented her work on international students well-being (using their own voices!). I loved hearing different accents in the video and the struggles of not having people around who “know you, know you”. It made me feel less alone.
@_chloebryant brought up the importance of initiating a conversation about sexuality with patients, and how it can mean different things to different people. @Almavivi1 used a feminist post-structuralist lens to analyse the return of new mothers to physical activity
@RebeccaEOlson made me hold my breath in her narrative of COVID frontline healthcare professionals. Ramona’s experience as a patient reminded us the importance of kindness, communication, trust so patients don’t “become those numbers” or “become that thing that was wrong with me”
After presentations, we had 2 hours to share our impressions, our thoughts, our questions and aspirations in how to think and do healthcare differently. It was an incredibly safe space and I want to thank all those who participated and shared their vulnerability with us.
This event made me realise how conferences (and research!) can be more collaborative, emotional, vulnerable. It can also be uncertain, and that’s ok! Thanks the Organizing committee and attendees for taking the day to experiment and connect 
“I am because we are”!
“I am because we are”!
