The Future of Wellbeing through Contemporary Art Practice and Research Cumulus Contemporary Art Practice Working Group roundtable: Shedding Light on Long Covid

This round table discussion will address the future of wellbeing through Contemporary Art Practice and Research. This will be explore through the lens of the project Shedding Light on Long Covid, a public realm sci-art project.

As chair, and curator of the round table, i have invited a panel of expert members who took part in the project in the capacity of researchers, clinicians, community practitioners and lived experience advisors.
Together, they will share their insights into experience and the impact(s) of working on the precipice between science and art for the benefit of people and place.

The discussion will address the range of challenges and opportunties of working on a sci-art project through and place-based methodology. The benefits afforded for the generation of new knowledge, through collaboration on the intersectionality of disciplines will be shared. And, how working within the public realm context enhances or limits the evaluation of practice and research.

The panel members will collectively 'Shed Light on Long Covid' research and how to live equitably with covid/long covid.

Invited Panel members:
Professor Mark Faghy, COVID-19/Long COVID research group University of Derby.
Dr Alice Marshall, Senior Lecturer University of Derby.
Director Adaire to Dance.
Professor Michael Pinchbeck, Manchester Metropolitan
University.
Tomar Beh,CEO Morez-Enterprise.
Sarah McSarah Barley-McMullen, Founder of Be Longing for Change. Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
Specialist and Long Covid, Lived Experience
Expert.
Callum Bate, Fellowship Area and Engagement manager.
Royal Society of Arts.