The Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (GHWRG) is a research group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). We offer a lively and supportive network for all those interested in research in geography of health and health care, medical geography, and any other area of research related to health and well-being. We are always pleased to welcome new members, our main activities include:
- bringing national and international researchers together
- organizing national and international events and meetings
- supporting postgraduates and early career researchers
- communicating news and events to its increasing membership
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If you are interested in joining the group, please contact the group secretary Wendee Zhang: wenjing.zhang@liverpool.ac.uk
Our history
The Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (GHWRG) is one of the thirty-two Research and Working Groups of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers). These research groups aim to bring together researchers and those with a professional interest in a particular aspect of geography, to support and promote that area of geography within academic research and teaching, but also within wider education, public policy and government and enterprise spheres.
The research group was formed in 1973, under the name the Medical Geography Study Group, before, in the early 1990s, rebranding and expanding to the Geographies of Health Research Group, under the leadership of Graham Moon. In 2015, Andrew Power proposed a further name change, to the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research group.
The Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group, as the name implies, offers a lively and supportive network for all those interested in the geographies of health and health care, medical geography, and any other areas of scholarship related to health and well-being that engages with geographical concerns. Although geography is obviously at the heart of the group, there’s also an ethos of engagement with much wider scholarship around health and wellbeing, and the group also has connections with, and makes contributions to, conversations within the medical humanities, medical sociology, and health studies at large.
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