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Lived Experience in Policy, Practice and Research (BASC0051)

Key information

Faculty
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Teaching department
¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Arts and Sciences
Credit value
15
Restrictions
This is a core module for all MASc Creative Health Students. Those students who study part time on the programme can choose to take this module during their first or second year.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

Content: The module foregrounds the lived experience of practitioners, professionals, researchers, patients and members of the community more generally. It will comprise a series of two-hour seminars bringing in a broad range of contributors with a variety of different experiences and perspectives.

Teaching delivery: The module is taught in weekly 3-hour lectures.

Indicative topics:ÌýBased on module content in 2023/24, this module will cover the individual journeys into becoming creative health practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and learners. The lectures will feature speakers who are actively working in Creative Health. This module will also foreground how to analyse personal stories to uncover insights, patterns, and present creative and analytical opportunities to apply and deepen this embodied knowledge.Ìý

Module aims:

  • Explore and critically engage with key literature in the topic of lived experiences in Creative Health.Ìý
  • Synthesise information across each week to gain a better understanding of how lived experience can be translated into action and how it currently informs research, policy, and interdisciplinary practices and methodologies.Ìý
  • Develop an awareness of how telling, sharing, and analysing personal stories can impact the storyteller, the listener, and the content of a story.Ìý
  • Develop an awareness of how individual identity, biases, history, trauma, etc., and social determinants can influence lived experience.Ìý

Recommended readings: Readings, when available, will be selected in accordance with the guest speakers. Readings will vary based on the guest list. Ìý

This module is taught on the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº EAST campus in Stratford.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Academic year (terms 1, 2, and 3) ÌýÌýÌý Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study
In person
Intended teaching location
¹û¶³Ó°Ôº East
Methods of assessment
20% Other form of assessment
80% Coursework
Mark scheme
Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year
34
Module leader
Ms Alexis Oparah
Who to contact for more information
uasc-pg-office@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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