Name: Performance For Care Symposium
Start: 2020-03-27T10:30:00Z
End: 2020-03-27T16:30:00Z
Location: The King's Fund

Performance For Care Symposium

Dr Alex Mermikides is a theatre researcher investigating the intersections between contemporary performance, healthcare and medicine. Her publications includePerformance and the Medical Body(2016) and Performance, Medicine and the Human(2020, both Bloomsbury). She runs Chimera, an arts/research network founded with an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Through this, she creates performances on medical themes, often working in collaboration with healthcare specialists and patients. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Times Higher Educational Supplement and on This Week (BBC Radio 4).Dr Sara Donetto is a social scientist with a background in medicine. She is a lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London. Her teaching focuses on qualitative research approaches and on the supervision of doctoral students. Sara's research interests include: pedagogical innovation in healthcare professional education; critical understandings of person- and relationship-centred care; collaborative approaches to the design and delivery of healthcare professional education and practice.

Dr Alex Mermikides (Guildhall School of Music & Drama) and Dr Sara Donetto (King's College, London)

<H2>Performance for Care</H2>
This event is for educators, arts practitioners, researchers, students, policy-makers, patient representatives and others interested in how the creative and cultural sector might support the education, professional development and public image of nurses, midwives and other heath professionals at the point of care. Presentations and performances will be used to introduce this developing field. In the afternoon, moderated small-group discussions will address its opportunities and challenges. The day culminates with an opportunity to put questions to a multi-disciplinary panel of experts.
PROGRAMME
10.30:         Registration and refreshments 
11.00:          Welcome and keynote presentations including Alex Coulter, Director of Arts and Health South West 
11.30:          Show-case of performance-based initiatives in nursing and midwifery
1-2pm:         Lunch (provided)
2.00 -3.30:   Moderated discussions (further details below)
3.30-4.30:    Q & A with expert panel (including Arts Council England and Performing Medicine) 
 
<H3>You will be allocated to one of the following discussion groups according to your expertise and interests - please fill in the questions on the registration page to assist with this process.</H3>
1.       What does an effective cross sector collaboration look like?
2.       What skills and values do we want for our healthcare professionals and our creative practitioners? What can we learn from the arts about learning tools for healthcare professionals - and vice verse?
3.        How can we sustain, roll-out and scale-up existing arts-based healthcare professional education initiatives?
4.       How should we be researching and evaluating arts-based initiative in healthcare professional education?
 
 
<H6>The Performance for Care symposium will be documented for research purposes. This may include audio recording, filming (showcase only), photography and the minute-taking of the focus group discussions. This documentation may be used in public outputs such as a symposium report, journal articles and further conferences.  </H6>
<H6>If you prefer not to be filmed or photographed, please inform a member of staff on registration so that we can make the necessary arrangements.</H6>
<H6>Documentation of focus group discussions will be managed by the moderator, who will ensure that your comments can be kept ‘off the record’ if you prefer.</H6>

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