Conversation Station with Deepness

wednesday, 8 may 2024

This presentation featured the work, reflections and learning so far of Deepness, based in the Western Isles, who are coordinating people-living-with-dementia-led peer research exploring the impact of participation in creative activities on experiences of agency, autonomy and mental wellbeing. This is funded by the Ideas Fund and culminated in the first lived-experience led Dementia Arts Festival in Inverness in November 2023, co-developing a Dementia Arts Manifesto. You can find more about their project here, more about their festival here and their website here. 

Summary

Access below the presentation summary, including the background of the research problem, key methodological elements, and learnings, challenges, and initial findings from the research partnership.

 
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  • 0:00 Introduction to Conversation Station and the Community Knowledge Matters network

    3:38 Introductory Video to Deepness

    5:25 Deepness’ aims and impact

    14:40 The researcher partnership

    20:40 Perspectives and dynamics of power and autonomy

    30:35 Next steps

    34:11 Funding context and aims of the funders

    36:30 Q&A (What methodologies were used? How and why did this partnership work?)