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A video dedicated to Mrs. Ailsa Steinert on her retirement after 46
years of teaching at Pingree School in South Hamilton, MA, Laura
talks about Mrs. Steinert's influence and narrative methods in
social policy research, and briefly reads from her book "Brain
Injury Survivors: Narratives of Rehabilitation and Healing."
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or the narrative methods image above.
Lorenz, L.S. (2012)
Contesting Health Policy: Toward a utopian vision of community-based rehabilitation for brain injury.
For the Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology
Paper session: ’Neuro’: Interventions, Entanglements, Futures.” American Sociological Association
(ASA) 2012 Annual Meeting, August
17-20th Denver Colorado (forthcoming). For more information
and a copy of the Abstract please click (here)
Lorenz, L.S. (2012) Enacting emotional engagement with healing from brain injury: Taking photographs and writing text. For the panel “Disability, Voice and Power.”
The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 2012 Annual Meeting, August
16-18th Denver Colorado (forthcoming). For more information and a
copy of the Abstract please click (here)
Laura will
facilitating a class, WGST 4160 – Health and Gender class as Guest
Lecturer for Professor Mark Sherry. The talk is entitled: Experience and Practice with Visual Illness Narratives: Examples of Brain Injury Survivors. University of Toledo, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST),
on March 26th 2012. For more information and a copy of the presentation please
click (here).
 Publications Author. (2012). A Way into Empathy: A 'Case' of Photo-Elicitation in Illness Research. In J. Hughes (Ed.),
SAGE Visual Methods. London: SAGE Publications. (forthcoming).
Click here to read more information
on our Presentations
Page.
Lorenz, L.S.
(2012). Recovery stories: Shaping the policy image of addiction treatment. Oral presentation for the panel “Celebrating Elliot Mishler I: Performing Stories – Special Presidential Session.”
at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society
(ESS), New York City, February 24th, 2012.
Click here for more
information of times, place, and links to the ESS conference.
The 2011 AMERSA Executive Board and Workshop Review Committee, chose Dr. Lorenz's workshop,
Talking with Pictures: Concepts and Hands-on Experience, as the
2010 Best Workshop Award. The award will be presented during the Award Plenary Session of the
2011 AMERSA national meeting which will be held November 3rd-5th
2011 at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, in Arlington, VA. Click
here to read more information
on our Lectures and Workshops
Page.
Laura will be facilitating a class PHOTOVOICE: Speaking with
Pictures. As Guest Lecturer, Informational Design and Visual Literacy, University of
Massachusetts Boston, Instructional Design Program. For more
information on this course and a copy of the presentation please go (here).
Laura will be giving a presentation 'Using Participatory Visual Methods in Social Science Research'.
Lunchtime Lecture for Sustainable International Development MA Advanced Study and Joint Degree Students,
At the Heller School for Social Policy & Management,
Brandeis University,
on October 24th 2011. For a copy of the presentation please go (here).
Lorenz, L.S.
(2011). Using visual metaphors to communicate lived experience with
an invisible injury. Oral paper presentation.
Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR)
2011 conference. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University,
Mason Inn and Conference Center,
October 4. Click here to read more information from our Presentations
Page.

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Brain Injury
X-Posed: The Survivor’s View PhotoVoice II
Members of the "Amazing" Brain
Injury Survivor Support Group in Framingham, Massachusetts embarked
on a 2nd new PhotoVoice Project entitled (PhotoVoice II). The
exhibit was prepared by the participants and facilitators over
eight-weeks and took place from September through December 2009...
View more this extraordinary 2nd PhotoVoice project by clicking
here.
Congratulations!
Dr Laura S. Lorenz recent
Special Problems Divisions election winner, elected division
officer, Disabilities Co-Chair, 2011-2013 for the Society for the
Study of Social Problems (SSSP).
Lorenz, L. S. (2011 May).
Teaching empathy: Photos as narrative tools in clinical care for brain injury patients. Oral Paper. Teaching Narrative and Teaching through Narrative, International Conference, Nordic Network of Narrative Studies, University of Tampere,
Tampere, Finland, May 26th-28th, 2011
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The Lexington Minuteman Community Newspaper.
by Michael Phillis
The Road to Recovery -
Lexington Facility offers hope to Brain Injury Patients:
'Lorenz is a partner in a new project at the Douglas House
(Lexington, MA) that will enable researchers to test the
effectiveness of various rehabilitation techniques on the recovery
of TBI patients.'...
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Lorenz, Laura S. (2011,
Online February 18th).
A
Way Into Empathy: A 'Case' of
Photo-elicitation in Illness Research. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 15,
3, May 2011, pp 259-276, Special Number on ‘Another way of knowing: art, disease, and
illness experience.’ Guest Editors,
Alan Radley and
Susan Bell.
Lorenz, L. S. and
Chilingerian, Jon A. (2011).
Using
Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care.
JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments (February 16th
2011).
Video
(14:32 Min). Read more by clicking
here.
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