Working with Creative Industries

We were awarded ‘Plus Funds’ by the UKRI Development Network to run a training and development programme over the course of 2022-23. Our course was called ‘Working with Creative Industries: A workshop series’. The Sensing Spaces of Healthcare project worked with the AboutFace project to deliver this programme. We are now organising regular informal online coffee and chats for people who are doing creative research, working with creative industries, or who are just interested in doing so.

Current Activity: Coffee Chats

We have these every 3 months (approx) and they offer an opportunity to learn from each others’ experiences and to live ‘troubleshoot’ if we want advice. Please get in touch with victoria.bates@bristol.ac.uk to receive calendar invitations for these.

This scheme is primarily for Future Leaders Fellows and their teams, though we also have other members funded by UKRI (for example as AHRC Leadership Fellows).

Past Activity: Workshop Series

The workshop series involved six sessions, organised in pairs under three themes. Some of the links below show creative notes from the sessions, others are password-protected resources for participants.

First steps of working with creative industries: Why, who and how?


Making the most of partnerships

  • Co-design, co-production, collaboration or commission? Managing expectations (online). 14th October 2022 (afternoon).
  • Case Study session: creative perspectives on collaboration (online). 13th January 2023 (afternoon).

Integrating creative methods into our own research

  • Resource Bank: planning for the future (online). 9th June 2023 (afternoon).

We also funded some creative workshops and attendance for ‘Plus Funds’ members for an event to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NHS on 28th June 2023, to show some of this work in practice.

Organising team: Victoria Bates, Fay Bound Alberti, Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Sarah Hall. Administrative support: Nicole Andrieu