Mike White Memorial Lecture

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This collection contains a recording of the the inaugural Mike White Memorial Lecture, the lecture text, and a context statement related to the lecture. The lecture was given by Fiona Sampson on 14 June 2016 at Wellcome Collection and entitled "A Speaking Likeness: poetry within health and social care". In this lecture, she reflected on the role of writing and creativity in health and social care and the development of this field of work from its earliest days.

2016

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Internal transfer, received in 2016.

Fiona Sampson is a prize-winning poet who has worked extensively in health and social care settings over many years. As well as being poet in residence in hospitals, she has written several studies of creative writing in health and social care and collaborated frequently with artists and clinicians. She is published in thirty-seven languages and has received numerous national and international awards; she is the Professor of Poetry at Roehampton University.

The Mike White Memorial Lecture was established by the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing to recognise the lifelong contribution to, and advocay of, arts and health practice by the late Mike White. Mike White was a pioneer of arts in health, author of Arts in Health: A Social Tonic, an arts practitioner in community settings and latterly a researcher at the Centre for Medical Humanities in Durham. He died in June 2015.

Held by Wellcome Collection: ART/WIT: The Arts and Health Witness Seminar and the Mike White Memorial Lecture took place at the Wellcome Trust and the Wellcome collection respectively on 14 June 2016. The two events were jointly organised by the Wellcome Library and the National Alliance for Arts, Health & Wellbeing to celebrate UK arts in health practice and research and to mark the Wellcome Collection's commitment to documenting the social and cultural contexts of health.

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