[Commlist] Symposium Trauma Resilience Building in Journalism Curricula

*_International Symposium_*

Trauma Resilience Building in Journalism Curricula: Facing Research 
Challenges, Ethical Considerations and Implementation of Evidence Based 
Practice.

Jointly organised by the Lincoln School ofEnglish and Journalism and the 
Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies in partnership with the 
Association for Journalism Education and the Manchester and Salford 
Branch of the National Union of Journalists, UK.

*Date: *Thursday14^th and Friday 15^th May, 2020.**

*Venue: *University of Lincoln,Brayford Pool, Lincoln. LN6 7TS. UK.**

*Time: *9.30am.

*Call for Papers*

Research has documented the impact of trauma on journalists. So far, it 
is not clear if this has fostered a clearer understanding amongst 
journalism educators and other stakeholders about how to foster 
resilience among journalism students to face potentially distressing 
situations through their taught curricula and practical experience. 
Attempts have been made on some courses to present practical and ethical 
challenges which warrant methodical investigation. All the above 
considerations lie at the heart of this international symposium which 
brings together academics, journalists, media organisations and other 
stakeholders to review practice in respect of fostering resilience in 
journalism students and to document research priorities so that 
curriculum development can be informed by empirical evidence.

Research and accumulated anecdotal experience suggest that journalists 
are often ill-prepared for their early career assignments to cover 
events which for most people are shocking and emotionally overwhelming 
in that they involve actual or threatened death, serious injury, or 
threat to physical integrity. Incessant coverage of events such as 
accidents, natural disaster, crime, cases of rape and child abuse is 
also known to carry personal and professional costs to journalists. In 
some instances, evoked reactions may meet clinical criteria for formal 
diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and 
persistent fear.

Indications are that this vulnerability to critical events may be, at 
least in part, related to a gap in journalism curricula and it is not 
known if those training modules which seek to build resilience are, to 
judge by their impact, fit for purpose in current and future deployments 
of journalists.

Our conference is open to anyone who has an interest in these 
educational challenges. Researchers, educators and practicing 
journalists are invited to submit abstracts (maximum 250 words) for 10 
minute paper presentations dealing with the above aspects of journalism 
training. Make sure you include your name, affiliation, contact 
information and a short biography to Ola Ogunyemi via 
(oogunyemi /at/ lincoln.ac.uk) <mailto:(oogunyemi /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)>by 20^th March 2020.

Alongside scholarly papers presenting a range of multidisciplinary 
perspectives on resilience training for journalism students, the 
conference organisers welcome experiential papers arising from actual 
coverage of traumatic events, coping strategies used to adjust to these 
experiences and suggestions for safeguarding measures which should be in 
place for adversely affected practitioners within their media 
organisations.The extent to which these considerations also appertain to 
diaspora journalists in various media will also be considered.

Submitted abstracts are to be reviewed by the Conference Steering 
Committee. Authors will be notified of its decisions by 14^th April 
2020. Some of the presented papers will be considered for inclusion in a 
Special Issue of the Journal of Journalism Education.

The conference runs over two days. The first day will largely comprise 
of paper presentation and discussion of themes raised by speakers. The 
second day follows this up with working parties briefed to suggest 
priority research agendas and sources of funding to support systematic 
investigations which gather evidence for the considered development of 
resilience among journalism students.

*Steering Committee*: Ola Ogunyemi, Roderick Orner, Brian Winston, John 
Cafferkey, Barry Turner, Margaret Hughes, Ailsa Adams (MA student) and 
Matthew Shaw (BA student).*__*


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