On Tuesday 9th July 2024, the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health held an Insights and Impact session, as part of the Faculty of Medicine, Health, and Social Care’s Research Festival Week.

Director, Professor Angela Pickard, welcomed everybody to the event and introduced the Centre and Research Team. This was followed by presentations from Centre Staff and Associates who shared some of the key insights and impact in to the research projects currently happening within the Centre.

Presentations were split in to two main categories and were as follows:

Physical and Mental Health in Babies, Children and Young People

Little Big Dance – Professor Angela Pickard

Belonging in Dance with Adolescents – Professor Angela Pickard

Teaching Differently with Open Theatre – Dr Nina Worthington

Arts, Health & Wellbeing among Refugee Children in Uganda – Dr Jonathan Barnes

Arts in Public, Clinical and Performance Spaces

Arts in Prisons – Jacqueline Tallent

Beyond the Stigma – Dr Nina Worthington and Charlotte Grainger

Maternal Health – Professor Angela Pickard

Music in Critical Care – Sonia Price

The event concluded with the showing of ‘DISCONNECTED’, an exhibition exploring the lived experience of depersonalisation-derealisation disorder (DPDR) through arts-based approaches using photography, film and spoken word – Charlotte Grainger

This was enjoyed over nibbles and drinks and the opportunity for the team to connect and network with attendees.

If you have any interest in collaborating with the Centre on a project or evaluation, please get in touch with us at sdhcentre@canterbury.ac.uk