Introducing CASPR

PEPR is excited to spotlight CASPR, an international community of practice focused on critical approaches to chronic pain scholarship.

The social dimensions of chronic pain are becoming increasingly noted in the literature. However, many researchers in the field do not have training in critical scholarship where theoretical approaches to such issues have been developed. Furthermore, critical scholars studying chronic pain often remain isolated from each other due to the lack of a clearly defined sub-discipline rooted in the social sciences. To this end, we have assembled a group of international scholars specializing in critical approaches to chronic pain. We have called this group CASPR, standing for Critical Approaches to Scholarship in Pain Research.

Our group has held a series of webinars, hosted a workshop at the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) 2024 World Congress on Pain. CASPR is currently preparing for a conference at the Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting in the spring of 2025.

To learn more about our group, please visit: https://criticalpainscholarship.ca/

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