Research is…

2022

I was commissioned by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to deliver a creative and collaborative workshop that interrogated our perceptions of what medical research is. Bringing together patients from wards, peer support workers, lived experience researchers and ward staff we explored what our understanding of research is and what it means to us. The exercise brought together fruitful reflections on issues such as accessibility, cultural diversity, [mis]trust of the health system and much more. By engaging in a creative activity participants felt that they could be engaged in discussions on their own terms — drawing, colouring, contributing to our collective work without necessarily speaking.