Description
Content: The module foregrounds the lived experience of practitioners, professionals, researchers, patients and members of the community more generally. It will comprise a series of two-hour seminars bringing in a broad range of contributors with a variety of different experiences and perspectives.
Teaching delivery: The module is taught in weekly 3-hour lectures.
Indicative topics:ÌýBased on module content in 2023/24, this module will cover the individual journeys into becoming creative health practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and learners. The lectures will feature speakers who are actively working in Creative Health. This module will also foreground how to analyse personal stories to uncover insights, patterns, and present creative and analytical opportunities to apply and deepen this embodied knowledge.Ìý
Module aims:
- Explore and critically engage with key literature in the topic of lived experiences in Creative Health.Ìý
- Synthesise information across each week to gain a better understanding of how lived experience can be translated into action and how it currently informs research, policy, and interdisciplinary practices and methodologies.Ìý
- Develop an awareness of how telling, sharing, and analysing personal stories can impact the storyteller, the listener, and the content of a story.Ìý
- Develop an awareness of how individual identity, biases, history, trauma, etc., and social determinants can influence lived experience.Ìý
Recommended readings: Readings, when available, will be selected in accordance with the guest speakers. Readings will vary based on the guest list. Ìý
This module is taught on the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê EAST campus in Stratford.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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