Pankhurst Centre, 2018
Creative research collaboration within the field of arts and health, teacher training and museum evaluation includes workshops, events and publications for Arts Council England, Bolton Art Gallery and Museum, Bury Art Museum, Manchester Art Gallery and Nottingham Contemporary.
Recent research with The Dermatology Centre at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust resulted in a pilot training programme to find out if visual observation skills in trainee dermatologists can be improved through analysing works of arts. The University of Nottingham's Clay Transformations project investigated the therapeutic uses of clay.
Teaching graduate and postgraduate students of Fine Art, Museums Studies and History of Art and Design, at the University of Bolton, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham Trent University, Staffordshire University and Wolverhampton University.
Creative learning initiatives with children and teachers have shown the benefits of working with museum and gallery collections through engaging with contemporary artists. Many of these have built on work that uses the museum as an extended classroom, and links work on the curriculum to art and museum collections. The ongoing project 'The Museum of Me' uses the practices and traditions of museums to encourage children and teachers to research their particular communities and personal histories, using unusual media and contemporary art processes.
Recent research with The Dermatology Centre at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust resulted in a pilot training programme to find out if visual observation skills in trainee dermatologists can be improved through analysing works of arts. The University of Nottingham's Clay Transformations project investigated the therapeutic uses of clay.
Teaching graduate and postgraduate students of Fine Art, Museums Studies and History of Art and Design, at the University of Bolton, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham Trent University, Staffordshire University and Wolverhampton University.
Creative learning initiatives with children and teachers have shown the benefits of working with museum and gallery collections through engaging with contemporary artists. Many of these have built on work that uses the museum as an extended classroom, and links work on the curriculum to art and museum collections. The ongoing project 'The Museum of Me' uses the practices and traditions of museums to encourage children and teachers to research their particular communities and personal histories, using unusual media and contemporary art processes.
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