SDHRC Research Webinar Series – Health Through Arts: Connecting People & Communities

A new research webinar series from the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health (SDHRC) brings together speakers from the UK, Europe, USA, and Australia to explore important interrogations around the impact of arts-based applications on individuals in healthcare and wellbeing contexts and settings.

Webinars taking place from January to June 2022 include applied theatre in paediatrics, exploring the impact of a choir for adults with a learning disability, applied puppetry in healthcare and disability, and co-designing virtual reality experiences with young people with a serious illness in hospital.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 14:00 GMT
Applied theatre in paediatrics: Can participatory performance mitigate educational, emotional and social consequences of missing out school during hospitalisation?
Speaker: Professor Persephone Sextou, Director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University
Designated Academic: Associate Professor Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell, University of Utah

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 14:00 GMT
The Galaxy Choir: Exploring the impact of a choir for adults with a learning disability: promising findings and ways forward
Speakers: Esther Coren, Assistant Director, Jacqueline Tallent, Research Fellow, and Julia Moore, Research Fellow, Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University
Designated Academic: Daniel Marsden, Senior Lecturer – Learning Disabilities, School Of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, Canterbury Christ Church University

Tuesday 22 March 2022, 13:00 GMT
Applied puppetry in healthcare and disability
Speakers: Cariad Astles, University of Exeter/Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Dr Emma Fisher-Owen, Researcher, puppeteer, theatre artist and educator
Designated Academic: Dr Susan Linn, Research Associate at Boston Children’s Hospital and Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Wednesday 8 June 2022, 10:00 BST (GMT + 1)
Future Stories: co-designing virtual reality (VR) experiences with young people with a serious illness in hospital
Speaker: Professor Michael Balfour, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Designated Academic: Emeritus Professor Robyn Ewing, Co-Director of CREATE Centre, University of Sydney

Further information and webinar bookings:
https://research.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health/webinars/