Health and the Arts Conference
Dates:
Thursday, April 27 - Friday, April 28
Location:
The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Central Meeting Rooms 11 and 15
The Health and the Arts Research Group aims to draw together researchers working on the interconnections between health, wellbeing, and the arts in the broadest sense. The group supports the development of research synergies, impact projects, and funding bids by enabling interdisciplinary connections to flourish.
Everyone is welcome to attend, and lunch will be provided. Please contact Rosemary Golding to book by Tuesday 18 April.
Thursday 27 April
CMR 15
'Storytelling in participatory action research (PAR) - giving voice to the individual' by Helen Mitchell and Verina Waights
'Five to Thrive Four Nations Pledge' by Rachel Millar and Jitka Vseteckova
'Visions of the Future: Destigmatising Visual Hallucinations through the Creative Arts' by Samuel Sargeant
Friday 28 April
CMR 11
'Making music alongside people living with health conditions' by Catherine Pestano
CMR 15
'Creating ‘Indian Cholera’: Epidemics, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century British Visual Culture’c' by Amanda Sciampacone
'James Smetham (1821-1889): art, faith, and mental health' by Ruth Slatter
'Writing the “second half” - discourses of ageing in women’s fiction' by Jen Shepherd
'Music, Health and Wellbeing in Nineteenth-Century Scotland' by Rosemary Golding
CMR 15
'Fanfiction, Identity and Young People’s Wellbeing' by Sara Clayson and Naomi Holford
'How can an arts-based public health pedagogy support an ecological understanding of sustainable food?' by Maria Nita
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