Engaging with science in arts and health practice Meroë Candy, Senior Arts Advisor Wellcome Trust.
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Engaging with science in arts and health practice
Meroë Candy, Senior Arts Advisor
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable
foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary
improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds.
Wellcome Trust Arts Awards
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”James Baldwin
Benefits for patients
Knowledge and understanding
Confidence and empowerment
Making the link between research and practice
Enabling their voice to be heard
Benefits for professionals
Insight“Artists and psychologists think about the same concerns: people, perception, meaning, language, concepts, experience and culture and what that tells us about people. Working with artists has fundamentally changed my thinking about these things.”
“The arts provides a different perspective on things. It’s easy to become cocooned in your comfort zone. [The collaboration] did make me think about the subjectivity of people's experiences.”
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Benefits for professionals
Methods
“I’m interested in interdisciplinary collaboration for the generation of new knowledge. This was seen as eccentric at first but now it’s considered to be innovative methodology”
Benefits for professionals
Communication and teaching
“In my clinical practice, I use the narratives that come out of these collaborations when talking to patients and their families. They enable you to think about different ways of understanding the world and identifying shared experiences.”
Challenges
Time/resources
Institutional buy-in
Clarity of roles – managing expectations
Ownership of data and intellectual property
Letting go
For more information on the Wellcome Trust Arts Awards:
www.wellcome.ac.uk/arts