Arts Intervention (Portfolio)
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 221203585
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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10.1080/17533015.2018.1555176
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component portfolio
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The question explored in the research comprising this portfolio concerns how the dramatic arts can respectively function as arts-based interventions for public health. A range of research methodologies were utilised including qualitative and quantitative approaches. The outputs from the GCRF AHRC/MRC-funded Vietnam Breast Cancer Project involved systematic thematic coding of the textual content of media articles based on quantitative measures of the presence or absence of themes relevant to breast cancer. Findings from this project showed a marked lack of stories about Vietnamese women’s personal experiences, and how such stories could help bridge the gap between what information about breast cancer is presented in the Vietnamese media, and what women in Vietnam understand about breast cancer risk factors, symptoms, screening and treatment. The ‘Engaging Hard-to-Reach Populations in Research on Health in Pregnancy’ project involved workshops with members of the Belfast Roma community, and involved the application of simultaneous dramaturgy (Boal: 1993). This technique in pregnancy-oriented research, based on scripted performances, translations, and discussions, was found to be effective for engaging with this hard-to-reach population, despite low levels of literacy, high language barriers, and cultural separateness. The approach uncovered attitudes to pregnancy which reinforce health inequalities, and present significant challenges for improving the health of marginalized population. Careworn, a short ESRC-funded film produced in association with the ESRC Festival of Social Science Northern Ireland, 2020, comprises interviews with caregivers during the COVID19 lockdown in early to mid-2020. The research component involved thematic analysis of transcribed interviews which were then adapted into a film script. Findings from the Careworn project examine the challenges faced by carers during lockdown from verbatim reporting. The arts-based intervention research was also published in leading peer-reviewed journals in the fields of arts and health and public health.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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