This session is focused on providing a friendly, inclusive, and supportive space for postgraduate and early career researchers in Health and Wellbeing Geography. The session is informed by the series of successful Emerging and New Researchers in the Geographies of Health & Impairment (ENRGHI) conferences. This session organised by PhD researchers seeks to co-create a supportive environment to showcase work in progress, to engage in discussion and receive research feedback. It will also be a valuable opportunity for connecting to the wider Health and Wellbeing Geography community. The aim of the session is to highlight the vibrancy of postgraduate and early career contributions to Geographies of Health & Impairment. We welcome papers from postgraduates, at any stage of their research, and early career researchers involved in health or wellbeing research within social, geographical, and/or environmental contexts. We invite submissions from both those working within and outside of geography as a discipline. Papers can discuss initial research designs, literature reviews, theoretical frameworks, specific methods, or draw upon empirical findings. 

The scope of the session is broad in order to reflect the diversity of topics and research approaches utilised within the field of health, wellbeing, and impairment. Contributions might include discussion of, but not restricted to:

• The impact of climate change on health, wellbeing, and impairment. 

• Health inequalities, environmental justice, and equity

• Health and wellbeing through the life course

• Mental health, disability, everyday life, and stigma

• Migration, mobilities, and health

• Health-care delivery and access to services

• Health technologies, health surveillance, and media

• Health, mapping, and spatial analysis

• Sensitive issues and ‘emotion work’ in health research/ethical issues in health research

• Creative health geographies: methods, performance, and impact

• PGR and ECR health and wellbeing