{"id":133,"date":"2024-03-07T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/?p=133"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T16:14:01","slug":"emma-brooks-on-intercultural-healthcare-through-a-multilingual-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/2024\/03\/07\/emma-brooks-on-intercultural-healthcare-through-a-multilingual-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Brooks on intercultural healthcare through a multilingual lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 March 2024, CULCOM hosted a talk by <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucl.ac.uk\/49654-emma-brooks\">Emma Brooks<\/a> titled <em>\u2018Because I&#8217;m coming from outside and they\u2019re coming from outside, I&#8217;m sort of a bridge&#8217;<\/em> Exploring (intercultural) healthcare through a multilingual lens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/files\/2024\/03\/Picture1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/files\/2024\/03\/Picture1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/files\/2024\/03\/Picture1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/files\/2024\/03\/Picture1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Discussions surrounding migration and health in the UK frequently frame language as a barrier to care, with a range of interpreting and translation solutions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/guidance-for-commissioners-interpreting-and-translation-services-in-primary-care.pdf\">posited as means of bridging<\/a> the conceptualised divide. Yet, the linguistic diversity of the NHS workforce remains a largely unrecognised and under-utilised resource, despite an increase in the number of international healthcare professionals, whose repertoires often mirror those of local diasporic communities. Informed by an understanding of language as a fluid and dynamic practice, I adopt a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/applij\/article\/39\/1\/9\/4566103\">translanguaging approach<\/a>, to investigate the (dis)advantages that linguistic flexibility could be said to bring in terms of comprehension, well-being and equitable care. I draw on ethnographic observations of medical consultations in a London hospital and explore everyday experiences of multilingual NHS professionals, collated through in-depth interviews. In doing so, I hope to highlight the extent to which individuals (feel able to) draw on personal linguistic repertoires, the pragmatic decisions behind employing additional resources and some potential for (un)anticipated consequences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Emma is Lecturer in Language Learning and Intercultural Communication at University College London. Her research interests include translanguaging, (intercultural) professional communication, superdiversity and the dominance of English as a global language: with a particular interest in linguistic ethnography and the role of language in facilitating (in)equalities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 March 2024, CULCOM hosted a talk by Emma Brooks titled \u2018Because I&#8217;m coming from outside and they\u2019re coming from outside, I&#8217;m sort of a bridge&#8217; Exploring (intercultural) healthcare through a multilingual lens. Discussions surrounding migration and health in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/2024\/03\/07\/emma-brooks-on-intercultural-healthcare-through-a-multilingual-lens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1699,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/culcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}