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Arts and Healthcare
The British art school environment provided the opportunity to develop new methodological applications of fine art photography through an AHRC New Collaborations Award within the research context of arts and healthcare.
The Influence of Photographic Narrative in Healthcare Dialogue (Kolaiti, 2010) was a four-year doctoral project developed in collaboration with physicians, surgeons and medical students at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The research was underpinned by key ideas describing photographic portraiture, visual narrative, reflective practice and the role of empathy. This venture led to the definition of the methodology of photographic re-narration, a term which I coined from psychoanalysis.
The applications of this methodology in the context of the medical curriculum led to an award-winning photography elective delivered to students studying MBBS Medicine and Surgery at Newcastle University. A four-year collaboration with NHS consultant Dr. Mark Welfare delivering The Camera Never Lies? photography elective facilitated a number of exhibitions of medical students’ photographic work across three NHS Trust hospitals and a creative collaboration with the director of the laparoscopic team of Northumberland surgeons Mr. Liam Horgan. The project was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Combined Royal Colleges Medal “for its contribution to the teaching of medicine” (RPS, 2011) as part of the research partnership between the University of Northumbria and Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Beyond Healthcare
After completion of the project it became apparent that there was an immediate lack of research context. This dictated the need for a re-definition of the parameters of artistic research exploring new methodological applications.
At a post-doctoral stage photographic re-narration facilitated new methodological investigations relating to patients' experience in collaboration with NHS staff, leading to the production of resources geared at the ongoing professional training of healthcare professionals. The nature of this investigation relates to a practical output 'for use in healthcare' rather than the development of artistic outcomes. The sustaining of creative practice alongside the development of commissioned projects and the subsequent questioning of the role of context became a predominant preoccupation. However, it was the lack of research context that became the main source of inspiration, using methodologies routed in doctoral explorations to develop artistic practice beyond healthcare and, to disseminate this practice outside its initial context as a form of knowledge transfer. A fragment of this experimentation is presented in this exhibition.
More about Dr Christina Kolaiti
Arts and Healthcare
The British art school environment provided the opportunity to develop new methodological applications of fine art photography through an AHRC New Collaborations Award within the research context of arts and healthcare.
The Influence of Photographic Narrative in Healthcare Dialogue (Kolaiti, 2010) was a four-year doctoral project developed in collaboration with physicians, surgeons and medical students at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The research was underpinned by key ideas describing photographic portraiture, visual narrative, reflective practice and the role of empathy. This venture led to the definition of the methodology of photographic re-narration, a term which I coined from psychoanalysis.
The applications of this methodology in the context of the medical curriculum led to an award-winning photography elective delivered to students studying MBBS Medicine and Surgery at Newcastle University. A four-year collaboration with NHS consultant Dr. Mark Welfare delivering The Camera Never Lies? photography elective facilitated a number of exhibitions of medical students’ photographic work across three NHS Trust hospitals and a creative collaboration with the director of the laparoscopic team of Northumberland surgeons Mr. Liam Horgan. The project was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Combined Royal Colleges Medal “for its contribution to the teaching of medicine” (RPS, 2011) as part of the research partnership between the University of Northumbria and Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Beyond Healthcare
After completion of the project it became apparent that there was an immediate lack of research context. This dictated the need for a re-definition of the parameters of artistic research exploring new methodological applications.
At a post-doctoral stage photographic re-narration facilitated new methodological investigations relating to patients' experience in collaboration with NHS staff, leading to the production of resources geared at the ongoing professional training of healthcare professionals. The nature of this investigation relates to a practical output 'for use in healthcare' rather than the development of artistic outcomes. The sustaining of creative practice alongside the development of commissioned projects and the subsequent questioning of the role of context became a predominant preoccupation. However, it was the lack of research context that became the main source of inspiration, using methodologies routed in doctoral explorations to develop artistic practice beyond healthcare and, to disseminate this practice outside its initial context as a form of knowledge transfer. A fragment of this experimentation is presented in this exhibition.
More about Dr Christina Kolaiti
