Conferences

Despite evidence that shows the arts and play have close connections in how they contribute to and achieve health outcomes for children and adults, there has been a dearth of action to encourage knowledge-exchange between these fields or to understand how the processes across these interventions may be similar. This conference aims to address this gap, encouraging shared learning and asking critical questions that will support us to move forward in arts and play with new-found insight.

This conference at the University of Salford will explore innovative approaches that are being used and could be developed to help reduce health and social inequalities through social prescribing. The event will provide an opportunity for practitioners, commissioners, providers, community organisations and academics to share ideas, experience and practice on a range of issues including loneliness, marginalised groups, women and children, homelessness, dental challenges and mental health.

Research on attachment, trauma and the body has expanded in the past few years, including helpful findings from neuroscience that have helped develop our understanding of human distress. This in turn has had an impact on psychotherapeutic practices such as art therapy.

The theme of the event will be care: care for one another (participants, practitioners, commissioners); care for the environment; and caring economies

A two-day event about neurodiversity, art and the politics of inclusion to mark the culmination of three years of Explorers, the project that places neurodiverse artists and makers at the centre of the conversation

Oncology doctors Nicola Davis, Sean Brown and Anthea Cree will be hosting wellbeing events on Sunday 3 November at the National Cancer Research Institute conference

Give: Volunteering for Wellbeing is a National Lottery Heritage Fund project led by researchers at University College London on behalf of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance in collaboration with the Horniman Museum & Gardens, Natural History Museum, and Valence House Museum. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the project is making heritage more accessible to people experiencing health inequalities.

The AHSW is hosting a two-day conference around the theme Creativity at the Heart of Human Flourishing.

The Arts team at St Christopher’s Hospice are mounting their fourth conference Facing Death Creatively to explore how the Arts can be utilised to make sense of and provide comfort at the end of life and in bereavement.

Following the success of its first Power of Music in Health and Social Care Conference in October 2018, the University of Nottingham has announced its second conference .