Navigating Liminality: Support Through Life Transitions in Services

Friday, 23rd January 2026 11am - 1pm

Online (Microsoft Teams)

This session draws on the anthropological concept of liminality (a threshold; a space between two identities or states) to explore how service users (and staff) often find themselves in-between roles, identities, or systems e.g., post-hospital, newly bereaved, moving house, ageing.

Organisations can play a crucial role in holding, accompanying, and naming these transitions.

Lori Hall is a Health & Social Care lecturer, PhD researcher, and experienced practitioner with over 20 years in the health and social care industry from shop floor to management, clinical and educational. Her research brings together critical disability studies, anthropology, and participatory methods to explore friendship, belonging, and epistemic justice. Drawing on both academic theory and lived experience as a parent of a disabled child, her work centres the voices of those often left unheard, challenging structural liminality and reimagining inclusive public health research through creativity, collaboration, and care.

Sessions though the Greater Lincolnshire Social Economy Academy are primarily aimed at Staff, Volunteers, Trustees and Board members of Voluntary, Community, Faith, Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations, we also welcome purpose driven organisations with a clear social or environmental mission.

Organisations must have a registered business address operating in an eligible geographical district area & complete a business enrolment form.

Organisations in the following areas are eligible to enrol and participate in GLSEA sessions:

• City of Lincoln
• North Kesteven
• South Kesteven
• East Lindsey
• West Lindsey
• Boston
• South Holland
• North East Lincolnshire
• North Lincolnshire

In addition to booking a ticket on Eventbrite, you will be required to complete a Business Enrolment Form to confirm eligibility and provide data required by our funders.

Business Enrolment Form found here.

This event is part of the Greater Lincolnshire Social Economy Academy programme which is funded by the UK Government and is supported by Lincolnshire County Council and Business Lincolnshire. It is delivered locally by Bishop Grosseteste University.