Chat series
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we set up regular online 'chats' to bring people together in dialogue and shared experience. We now meet monthly on the last Wednesday of the month (4-5pm BST/GMT) and invite guest facilitators to lead discussions on 'hot' topics. We have no aim but to have an interesting chat!
Who are the chats for?
Join us as an academic, practitioner, artist, arts/play manager or administrator, policymaker and/or interested community member. Each week we will have a few overarching questions to start the conversation and create space for dialogue and ideas for action. Bring your lunch or a nice big cuppa as we come together in community.
Next meeting
We are absolutely delighted to be partnering with the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at UCL for Creativity and Wellbeing Week!
Our next chat will take place during this festival of creative health on Wednesday 22nd May 4-5pm. In this chat, we will discuss fostering community in the interdisciplinary field of arts, play, and health. Facilitated by Karen, Saoirse, Jess & Alex from UCL, we will explore how to foster community in the interdisciplinary field of arts, play, and health. Join us to chat about working across disciplines to build diverse communities, the challenges and opportunities associated with community-building, the tools needed to establish sustainable communities and more!
Dr Karen Mak, Senior Research Fellow, is an epidemiologist, specialising in predictors and impacts of the arts on health and wellbeing using population-based surveys. Karen also co-leads the UCL Creative Health Community.
Saoirse Finn, Research Fellow, is researching the interplay between social connections, leisure engagement, arts, and health, taking an interdisciplinary approach across social science, epidemiology, and genetics. Alongside that, she supports our programmes for early career researchers, such as through the Arts Health Early Career Research Network.
Dr Jess Bone, Senior Research Fellow, is an epidemiologist, specialising in exploring arts, health, and wellbeing in large longitudinal studies from the US and internationally. She also supports the group’s programmes for early career researchers.
Dr Alex Burton, Senior Research Fellow, is a qualitative researcher, specialising in the evaluation of social prescribing, arts and community programmes, particularly for people living with severe mental illnesses. She is also a member of the UCL Qualitative Health Research Network.
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How to join
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We are an international community and welcome people from all over the world to join us.
Please note that if you have joined one of our chats before or sign up ahead of the day, we will send you the joining details the day before the session (Tuesday). If you are new to the list, we will email you the details before the start time of the session (circa. 3.30pm).