LAHRI Connected Conversations

The first of LAHRI Connected Conversations will take place on 25 November focusing on one of the University's three signature strengths: health, wellbeing and health tech

Location: LAHRI Meeting Room (Baines Wing 2.23)

Our session will be led by Professor Alice O’Grady (School of Performance and Cultural Industries), who is currently the academic lead for the Creative Health Futures Hub (CHFH), an interdisciplinary research hub established this year in collaboration and partnership with the Cultural Institute and the Horizons Institute.

Recognising the importance and timeliness of collaborative, multi and interdisciplinary research in this field, we want to ask ourselves how we, as Arts and Humanities researchers and creative practitioners, might connect with the existing conversations that are taking place about the relationship between arts and health, at regional, national and international level.

• How might our existing research participate in this discourse? 
• What routes to future collaboration might be possible? 
• How can the schools and disciplines of AHC inform, interrogate or influence these debates?
• What can we contribute in terms of our methodologies, research ethics, and good governance practices? 
• What new practices or technologies might we develop in partnership with others?

Whether you've participated events or conducted research around Health and Wellbeing already, or whether you are coming fresh to the conversation, you are most welcome to participate. We're interested in sparking new connections through conversation so do come along. 

The event will take place in-person at the LAHRI Meeting Room (Baines Wing 2.23) at 11:00-1200noon. We will provide tea, coffee, and cake.   

How to book your place: please complete this form: Connected Conversations Sign Up. We ask that you provide a single PowerPoint slide to represent yourself specifically in relation to the chosen topic of Health, Wellbeing and Health Tech. The slide needn’t contain a great amount of text – an image would be good – but you might gloss your interest in the topic, how your research or creative practice might contribute, or give a sense of how you would wish to respond to the debate. We are hoping to receive a kind of “Business” or “calling card” from everyone. Prior to each session all the slides will be combined prior to create a “showreel” of researcher interests, skills and potential contributions. We will ask you to speak, very briefly, to your slide as part of the introduction to the session.  

We look forward to seeing you there.