Centre for Medical Humanities University of Durham

• Interdisciplinary research and evaluation

• Delivery of multi-sector ‘arts in health’ projects

• International profile and network hub

• A special commitment to the North East region

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Are arts in health a means of treating people …or a way of helping them view the world?

- Making ‘new traditions’-an alignment between the social determinants of health

and the cultural imperative to make art?

Autonomy and full social participation are so important for health that their lack leads to deterioration in health.Michael Marmot Status Syndrome 2004

Factors which make for health are concerned with a sense of personal and social identity, human worth, communication, participation in the making of political decisions, celebration and responsibility. The language of science alone is insufficient to describe health: the languages of story, myth and poetry also disclose its truth.

Michael Wilson Health Is For People. 1975

Common KnowledgeWorkforce development in arts in health

• Multi-sector arts in health learning programmes

• Relationship-based working

• Pilot projects• Research and

evaluation• Has influenced growth

of networks in Yorkshire, East Midlands, North West, County Cork and Western Australia

From 2010, new Common Knowledge programmes in Gateshead, South Tyneside and Co. Durham

Induction event

Developing a multi-sector workforcefor community-based

arts in health promotion

Health TopicSeminars

Leading to…

Pilot Projects

CPD via Durham School of Medicine and Health

Placements

Developing reflective practice

• The foundation of purposeful learning.• Learning how to take a perspective on

ones own actions and experience - examine experience rather than just live it.