by Lan Pham | Oct 22, 2020 | Arts, Community, Research profile, Skills, Uncategorised
As an approach, co-production has increasingly come to the forefront, both in research and in design of services. This has led to greater attention and effort being made to draw on the knowledge of those with lived experience, whose voices count and, attempts to understand how they count. In September I had the great experience of assisting Beth Cross, David McGillivray, Jingyang Ai and Sandro Carnicelli to deliver a training course for PhD Students. (more…)
by Lan Pham | Aug 13, 2020 | Arts, Community, COVID19, Lonliness, Place, Power, Research profile
Exploring what arts and culture have to offer efforts to prevent loneliness is the focus of my PhD research. Loneliness is a subjective feeling of a gap between the relationships a person wants and what they have. Three types of loneliness have been described in academic and grey literature (Mansfield et al., 2019) (more…)
by Lan Pham | Apr 30, 2020 | Community, COVID19, Research profile, Skills, Uncategorised
As I write we’re entering our fifth week of lockdown and I am currently reorienting the ‘who with’ and ‘how with’ part of my PhD. In the meantime, the feedback between theory and practice will have to be through applying a conceptual perspective to my own life. This perspective comes from the concept of communities of practice1 and its descriptions of how meaning, identity and belonging are formed. (more…)
by Lan Pham | Jul 18, 2019 | Research profile
There’s one benefit of what my PhD colleague calls Interdisciplinary Imposter Syndrome, I feel I can be part of both the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) and Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH). So, I took advantage of their summer schools’ wide range of talks and training in the last couple of weeks. (more…)
by Lan Pham | Jun 6, 2019 | Research profile
I’m now four months into my PhD in the field of arts and health within the context of cultural regeneration. I have a professional background in economic development consultancy and working as a research assistant at Citizens Advice Scotland. This role developed my interest in the social determinants of health. (more…)
