The 24th international nursing ethics conference: Ethics,care and the workforce ‘crisis’;International,interprofessional and interdisciplinary perspectives

Call for abstracts

The 2024 nursing ethics conference engages with one of the most challenging issues of our time: the ‘care crisis’. Whilst talk of ‘crisis’ in relation to health and social care is not new, a number of local and global challenges have resulted in a perfect storm of factors including the climate emergency, demographic changes, multi-morbidity and increasing complexity of care needs, over-stretched services, staff shortages and attrition, student recruitment challenges, an ageing workforce, post-pandemic exhaustion, professional migration, technological ‘solutions’ and global health inequity.

The 2024 conference will reflect on philosophical, empirical and methodological developments in interprofessional, international and interdisciplinary ethics as applied to the care ‘crisis’. Plenary themes will include the meaning and implications of a care ‘crisis’; unpacking the care workforce challenges and opportunities staffing challenges including the ethics of withholding labour and of international labour movement; care and support for the professional care workforce; ethical solutions; and the future international and local care workforce. A list of Keynote, Plenary Speakers and Chairpersons is below.

We invite Abstracts for our 2024 conference, which will be hosted by Brunel University London. The University is 15 min from Heathrow airport, has campus accommodation and has easy access to central London.

The conference will bring together interprofessional, interdisciplinary and international scholarship, research, leadership, policy and educational innovation in relation to the care ‘crisis’. Conference themes include – but are not limited to – negotiating ethical aspects of care relationships with care-recipients, families and communities; managing challenges such as scarce resources; ethical aspects of care-giver well-being; nurses’ engagement with ethical/moral climate of care organisations; regulatory ethics which impact nursing practice; nursing ethics methodologies and innovations in ethics education.

The 2024 conference is organised by the Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University London in collaboration with the international Editorial Board of the journal Nursing Ethics.

The Human Rights and Nursing Awards will be presented at the conference on 30th August 2024.

Practitioners, researchers, educators, managers and students in the field of health and social care from around the world are invited to attend and participate in this important conference to engage in discussion regarding responses to ethical challenges locally and globally.

Abstracts are invited for oral presentations, posters and symposia to address the conference theme and other ethical issues in care by 29th February 2024.

Guidelines for submission of abstracts

• All abstracts must be submitted by email to the Department of Health Sciences Administration team – DHS-DA@brunel.uk.

Abstract structure – submit as email attachment

• First name (primary author and presenter)

Conference keynote, plenary speakers and chairpersons include