Name: All Opinions In This Blog Are My Own
Start: 2022-04-14T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-04-14T20:30:00+01:00
Location: South Wing University College London

All Opinions In This Blog Are My Own

The Nosocomial Project is an award-winning collaboration set up by writer/ director Nicola Baldwin and Professor Elaine Cloutman-Green, Lead Healthcare Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital.Our work includes plays and readings, site-specific performance, and short films, for children and adults. We also host workshops, panels and collaborative events for artists and scientists, and partner events to promote cross-disciplinary conversation.The Nosocomial Project seeks to build relationships between artists, scientists, researchers, patients, families and the public through theatre, shared experience, and conversation; believing that better communication and understanding are vital for managing future threats to global health and communities.We won the 2019 CSO Partnering Patients and Citizens Award, and 2020 Antibiotic Guardian award for Public Engagement. In 2021 we partnered with Precision AMR research initiative at UCL , UCLH, GOSH and ICH to coordinate PPI and produced twoRise Of The Resistancefestivals (online and in person)  in July and September 2021, performances and events for Wellcome Collection, Bloomsbury Festival and site-specific take-over projects.

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Healthcare Science Week performance based on the weekly 'Girlymicro’ blog by Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green, followed by a discussion on blogging

South Wing University College London

“So, this is my first ever blog post. Bear with me as I don’t really know what I’m doing. I’m what is known as a Clinical Scientist and I work in Infection Control.”Thus began the first blog post by Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green, Lead Healthcare Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in December 2015. It would be five years and one pandemic before her second post, in October 2020, began her weekly blog as ‘Girlymicro’ (&#x27;scientist changing the world one swab at a time&#x27;). Girlymicro blogged at first about the job, to promote Healthcare Science, offering professional exam or interview advice for HCS trainees, before ranging more widely, into women in science, the challenges facing HCS, exploring the limits of what overstretched teams and individuals can achieve, saving lives in labs through insight, accuracy and interpretation.Each blog written in a snatched hour, Girlymicro became a mental space populated with personal reflection, meditation on loss, favourite microbes, special guests, puppet shows, and… zombies; always with Elaine’s trademark humanity and humour.‘All Opinions In This Blog Are My Own’ is a showcase of a devised work in progress based on the Girlymicro blog by The Nosocomial Project, adapted by Nicola Baldwin, performed by two actors, Becky Simon and Peter Clements, and two Healthcare Scientists, Anthony De Souza and Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green.The short performance will be followed by a conversation on writing and blogging. Why blog? What might you learn along the way? Does writing create a safe space for reflection? Or create new pressures? To blog or not to blog…. That is the question.All welcome.Picture credit: Julia Lockheart, DreamsID.comThe painting is of Elaine&#x27;s dream of shelling quails&#x27; eggs to find a cure for Covid-19. The dream was told and discussed online with psychologist Mark Blagrove and a worldwide audience in April 2020, and was painted simultaneously by artist Julia Lockheart. More details of the dream and painting, and the DreamsID pandemic dreams project, can be seen at https://DreamsID.com.

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