{"id":499,"date":"2015-05-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2015\/05\/26\/dementia-research-and-the-benefits-of-arts-practices\/"},"modified":"2015-05-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T00:00:00","slug":"dementia-research-and-the-benefits-of-arts-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2015\/05\/26\/dementia-research-and-the-benefits-of-arts-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia research and the benefits of arts practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Health professionals, artists, film-makers, theatre practitioners, psychologists and academic researchers will get together at the University&#8217;s Canterbury campus on 30 May to explore the ways in which creative practices can offer insights into the experience of dementia and ways of interacting with those affected.<\/p>\n<p>The key themes of this symposium, which is part-funded  by Kent County Council and hosted by the University&#8217;s Beacon Institute: Illuminating Arts and Science, will be person-centred care, relational environments and future prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Facilitators include Professor Nicola Shaughnessy, Director of the Beacon Institute and Professor of Performance at the University&#8217;s School of Arts, and Ania Bobrowicz, a Senior Lecturer in Digital Arts at the University&#8217;s School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA).<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speaker is Paul Camic , Professor of Psychology and Public Health, and Research Director of the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University.<\/p>\n<p>Presenters include: Katy Hirst and Rhiannon Lane, Bright Shadow Theatre Company; Tricia Fincher and Daren Kearl, Kent Library services; Arti Prashar, Spare Tyre Theatre Company; Jane Milton, film-maker and researcher, EDA; Claire Garabedian, Association of Dementia Studies at University of Worcester; Leah Thorn, poet, film-maker and artist; Luke Underdown, East Kent Hospital Charity Dementia Appeal; and Sumita Chauhan, PhD researcher, EDA.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health professionals, artists, film-makers, theatre practitioners, psychologists and academic researchers will get together at the University&#8217;s Canterbury campus on 30 May to explore the ways &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2015\/05\/26\/dementia-research-and-the-benefits-of-arts-practices\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}