Arts-Based Approaches to Understand Lived Experience in Health and Care

This session will explore how arts-based approaches and creative practices, such as digital storytelling, creative writing, theatre, music, photovoice, beadwork and others, can be used as research methods that support deeper understanding of lived experience in health and care and generate and/ or share knowledge that is grounded in personal experience and meaning. Speakers will share their own work and lived experiences, illustrating how arts-based approaches can create more inclusive and accessible ways of engaging with research, particularly for individuals whose voices are not always well represented through traditional methods. These approaches highlight the strengths, creativity, and expertise that individuals bring to research through lived experience.

We will also invite reflection and discussion on how arts-based methods can contribute to more person-centred, responsive, and inclusive research practices, broadening how knowledge is created, shared, and understood within health research.

Presenters:

• Sandra Munro, PaCER, Lead Patient Research Partner, AbSPORU Patient Engagement Team
• Tess Casher, PhD student at the University of Alberta, Listening Equity Project, SPACE (Stuttering, People, Arts, Community, Education)
• Aidan Sank, Creator and Executive Director of SPACE (Stuttering, People, Arts, Community, Education)

Questions about APELS? Reach out to Ingrid Nielssen with AbSPORU’s Patient Engagement Team at ingrid.nielssen@ucalgary.ca