by aseifert | Dec 13, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Dementia has been in the news in a big way over the past week. Tuesday saw the first ever G8 Dementia Summit opening in London with a headline grabbing promise from David Cameron to double funding for dementia research by 2025. This follows similar promises of...
by aseifert | Dec 6, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement, Training and Research
Earlier this week I spent a day researching in the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre at Holborn Library. Now that our weekly Festival in a Box visits with people living with dementia in Camden are well underway, my aim was to find stimulus materials which—based...
by aseifert | Nov 29, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement
Boxes have a history within dementia research and memory activities. Some very important work in the field of arts and health has come about through the production of ‘memory boxes’, for example. Via the work of the European Reminiscence Network or the ‘House of...
by aseifert | Nov 20, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement
Meetings: At 9am on Monday morning a fairly disparate group of people gathered for a meeting and training session for the Festival in a Box project. Alongside myself and other researchers, in attendance were one local Bloomsbury artist (last seen leading a walk at...
by aseifert | Nov 6, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement, Training and Research
The First Box: Earlier this week a plain, slightly damp cardboard box was delivered to my office. Whilst hardly looking like anything to get excited about, I knew that this was in fact a very important package indeed. It was nothing less than the first ‘output’ of my...
