Health Humanities Symposium 2022
Event details
Location
- Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
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Date and time
- 21 October 2022, 9.00am–4.30pm
Event Fee
- Free
Registration
- Registration essential
Wellbeing and Practice of Health Professionals: Application of Health Humanities for research and education
Friday 21 October, 2022, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia (UWA)
The UWA School of Allied Health, Health Professions Education and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery were delighted to invite academics and practitioners to the UWA Health Humanities Research Group Symposium. This one-day hybrid symposium shared examples of local, national and international Health Humanities research and also involved hands-on workshops illustrating educational approaches of Narrative Medicine and Object Based Learning.
Attendees joined online and face-to-face.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Paul Crawford, University of Nottingham
‘What’s Up With Everyone? Creative Health, Practice and the Public'
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Paul Crawford is Professor of Health Humanities at the School of Health Sciences and Director of the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH).
As founding father of the global and rapidly developing field of health humanities, Professor Crawford leads a large program of research in applying the arts and humanities to inform and transform healthcare, health and wellbeing.
He is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed articles or chapters and 14 books, most recently Mental Health Literacy and Young People (Emerald, 2022), Cabin Fever: Surviving Lockdown in the Coronavirus Pandemic (Emerald, 2021), Florence Nightingale at Home (Palgrave, 2020), and The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (Palgrave, 2020).
He is the commissioning editor for two series, Arts for Health (Emerald) and Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities (Routledge) and is lead Editor-in-Chief for The Encyclopedia of Health Humanities (Springer).
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Presenters
Dr Claire Hooker
How can acting and theatre skills support health professions education?
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Associate Professor Emily Brink
Modelling Disease: Wax Specimens and the Study of Illness in the Nineteenth Century
Dr Nicole Shepherd et al
Speculative Pathology: A Medical Humanities Teaching Initiative
Dr Leanne Fried et al
More than an Arts Class: Promoting Social and Emotional Wellbeing for Young People
Jenny Zhang (formally known as Jenny Chang)
The Changing Experience of Clinical Empathy for Australian Medical Professionals
Previous Symposiums
See the full schedule from the 2021 symposium
Event Organisers
- Prof Sandra Carr
- Janice Lally
- Dr Kiah Evans
- Weilin Chi