Project team and partners
The following individuals and institutions are all key players in the project.
Core team
- Professor James Thompson (PI) – Drama, School of Arts Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester;
- Kate Maguire-Rosier - Postdoctoral Research Associate;
- Réka Polonyi - Postdoctoral Research Associate;
- Professor John Keady (CoI) – Professor of Older People’s Mental Health, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester;
- Dr Jackie Kindell (CoI) – Visiting Lecturer, University of Manchester and Head of Allied Health Professionals and Social Workers, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust;
- Jenny Harris – Lead Artist, Manchester;
- Dominique Davies – homecare worker and co-researcher;
- Caroline Weimar – homecare worker and co-researcher;
- Dr Kerry Harman (CoI) – Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial Studies, University of London, Birkbeck;
- Chloe Bradwell - PhD researcher and freelance circus artist, University of Exeter.
Partners
- Birkbeck, University of London;
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust;
- Whitworth Art Gallery.
Board members
- Maurice Hamington - Professor of Philosophy, Portland State University, USA;
- Madeleine Bunting, Writer;
- Amanda Stuart Fisher - Senior Lecturer in Applied Theatre, RCSSD, University of London;
- Dawn Edge - Professor of Mental Health and Inclusivity, University of Manchester;
- Sarah Campbell - Senior Lecturer in Social Care and Social Work, University of Manchester;
- Sara Donetto - social scientist and Senior Lecturer, Kings College London;
- Alex Mermikides - Senior Lecturer in Arts & Health, Kings College London;
- Julian Hughes - Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Professor of Philosophy of Ageing, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University.