Call for papers

for a new book from Jessica Kingsley, Publishers (to be published in 2019), Editors: Ali Coles and Helen Jury

This new book will inform practitioners about innovative practice and relevant theoretical perspectives in museum and gallery work. In the twelve chapters it will examine different client groups, the particular space of museum and gallery locations, and the singular skills Art Therapists bring to contemporary work in this field. Please click here for expressions of interest to contribute a chapter.

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Unleashing health by design: Creating a culture of wellness in our cities

16-17 October 2017
Royal College of Physicians, London, UK 

Organised by SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange in collaboration with Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, the inaugural Healthy City Design 2017 (HCD) International Congress & Exhibition seeks to share and stimulate new research, innovative practice and progressive policy ideas on how to design economically and ecologically sustainable cities that enhance citizen health and wellbeing. 

The third European Healthcare Design 2017 Congress has issued a call for abstracts for presentations on a number of themes including “the art of care: creating compassionate places and environments”.

Other themes include:

Quality improvement: transforming health & care services

Care in the community: designing across the care continuum

Science, technology and digital health: what the future holds

Healthy ageing: inspiring, enabling and supporting older people

Sustainable development: design to promote health & biodiversity

The second international conference on culture, health and wellbeing will take place in Bristol next June. Building on the success of the first conference in 2013, it will showcase inspirational practice, policy and the latest research and will focus on the role of arts and creativity in healing, care and wellbeing across the life course.

The Association of Art Historians annual conference, will next year include a panel discussion exploring art and design in healthcare.

Taking place from 6 to 8 April 2017 at Loughborough University, the panel invites historians of art, architecture and design, as well as cultural practitioners, programmers and policymakers, to reflect upon, critique and question the forms and functions of contemporary and historical art and design practices in healthcare environments (hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, etc.).

Engage 39 is seeking international contributions relating to current social, economic and policy contexts for visual arts in health and wellbeing.

Questions they would like to address include:

1. What are the current social, economic and policy contexts for arts in health and wellbeing in the UK and internationally?

2. How these have changed over recent years and since the publication of engage Journal 30: Arts and Health, in summer 2012?

The annual Medicine Unboxed conference is inviting students to apply for a 10-minute presentation at Medicine Unboxed: Students 2016.

Undergraduate or postgraduate students from all backgrounds are able to apply, including art, drama, music, medicine, literary studies, philosophy and other health-related subjects. Previous presentations have included conversations and debate, performances, storytelling, dance and comedy, workshops and film.

The second international conference is coming to Bristol UK on June 19, 20 and 21 2017.

The conference will showcase inspirational practice, policy and the latest research in culture and arts in health and wellbeing. It will discuss the role of arts and creativity in healing, care and wellbeing across the life course. It will encourage discussion and shared learning, facilitating dialogue between researchers, policy makers and practitioners. Conference themes will encompass multiple art forms and will include:

The First International Research Conference on the Arts and Dementia will take place in March 2017. A call for papers has now been issued.

From 9-10 March 2017, the Royal Society of Public Health and Canterbury Christ Church University is hosting an international conference on arts and dementia.

Invitations are now open for abstracts of up to 200 words which clearly describes research in this area.

If you are interested in sharing your work at the next big, free networking event at Manchester School of Art on the 7th October between 10:00am and 4:00pm, please email an expression of interest to Clive Parkinson at artsforhealth@mmu.ac.uk in no more than 200 words outlining who you are, what you do