KICKING UP OUR HEELS

With a focus on parent and carer wellbeing Anna Ledgard was part of a research team with artists Emily Underwood-Lee, Brian Lobel and Emily Speed at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) (2019/20).  The team worked with parents at GOSH and GOSH Arts to consider the importance of finding space for yourself when you’re a parent or a carer of a child in hospital. The artists staged playful conversations at the bedside for parents across the wards asking where they go, and what they do to look after themselves when they are at GOSH. Emily Speed used the information gathered from parents to make a collection of artworks which aim to support parents to care better for themselves when they are in the hospital. Anna Ledgard coordinated a reflective and evaluative process alongside the project. https://storytelling.research.southwales.ac.uk/research/kicking-our-heels/