Thursday
March 9th
Theme of the Day: Joy
The complexity of Joy. The simplicity of Joy.
Is Joy where creativity and neuroscience align?
How is this affecting people’s lives?
Where might the pursuit of Joy lead?
9.30-9.50am
Reflections and Introductions
Ian Roberston, Chris Bailey and Autumn Brown reflected on some of the sessions from the previous day and discuss the themes of the day today.
Music introduction by Mike Hanrahan, Vanessa De la Cruz Gongora and Aline Haas.
Contributors
Christopher Bailey is the Arts and Health Lead at the World Health Organization and a co-founder of the Jameel Arts and Health Lab. The lab is looking at the evidence base for the health benefits of the arts by building up a global network of research centers to look at effective practice as well as the foundational science of why the arts may benefit physical, mental and social wellbeing. The emphasis of the program is supporting underserved communities around the world. Through its Healing Arts activities, he program also engages with the global media to promote pro health messaging and build solidarity on health issues through all media. Educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities as well as the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, after a career as a professional actor and playwright, Christopher joined the Rockefeller Foundation as their Research Manager, and from there was recruited to WHO where he lead the Health Informatics work and later their on-line communications team before starting the Arts and Health program. As an ambassador for the field, he has also performed original pieces such as Stage 4: Cancer and the Imagination, and The Vanishing Point: A journey into Blindness and Perception, in venues around the world from the Hamwe Festival in Rwanda, to the Wellcome Collection in London, to the World Bank in DC, as well as Lincoln Center in NY, the LA Opera, LACMA, and Warner Bros Studios in LA, and the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco among many others. The basic message of his work is to amplify the WHO definition of health which states that health is not merely the absence of disease and infirmity, but the attainment of the highest level of physical, mental and social wellbeing.
Website:
https://www.who.int/initiatives/arts-and-health
Social Media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-bailey-21072050
Dr. Autumn Brown is a transdisciplinary postdoctoral scholar at University College Dublin. She has published across numerous fields including science education, science and society, and equitable access to education. Her research interests include the history of scientific knowledge and immigration, cold war art-science innovations, and STEAM pedagogies. She is the co-founder and co-host of the podcast series, The Art-Science Salon. Her current work explores the transfers and transformations of knowledge regarding silencing technologies as part of the Spectres & Camouflage project at University College Dublin and transdisciplinary non-formal learning with the Science and Society research group at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a masters degree in Science Communication and Public Engagement from The University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Education from Trinity College Dublin.
Social Media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/autumn-brown-558884139/
X; https://twitter.com/fairytalesci and www.twitter.com/ArtPlusSciSalon
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/dr.fairytalescience
It was 1977, Ennis and Doolin were alive with new music. He was in a room on the top floor of a house in Abbey Street creating a new sound with Maura O Connell. They were Tumbleweed. Stocktons Wing were creating a movement down the road on O Connell Street. It was exciting. Maura went to Nashville, he jumped on The Wing Wave ……. It has been a rollercoaster.
As an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College he has been learning about Dementia and ways he can contribute as an artist to promote equity and care for brain health.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/mike-hanrahan
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hanrahan-66780946/
Instagram: @mikehanrahanmusic/
Ian Robertson is a Founding Director of the Global Brain Health Institute and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. He is co-leader of the BrainHealth Project (Center for BrainHealth UTDallas) and is a Member of Academia Europaea and of the Royal Irish Academy. He is widely known for his research on neuropsychology and his science writing has included books aimed at the general reader: Mind Sculpture (2000), The Mind’s Eye (2003), Stay Sharp (2005), The Winner Effect (2012) and The Stress Test (2016), all of which have been widely translated. His most recent book How Confidence Works was published by Penguin in 2022.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/ian-robertson
Social:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-robertson-4480502/
10.00am–12.15pm
Complex Joy?: A Celebration of Brain Health in People with Down Syndrome
Life expectancy, opportunities, social understanding and general awareness of people with Down syndrome has transformed in the last 50 years. A cause for Joy.
But not one thats uncomplicated – people with Down syndrome have a genetic risk to develop Alzheimers. To start our day on Joy people with Down syndrome talk about the joy of the journey they have made as well as input from leading scientists across Europe on where dementia research is leading and why people with Down syndrome should be included on that journey
- Hosted by – Eimear McGlinchey and Mei Lin Yap
- Fintan Bray – The Importance of Inclusion – first person with Down Syndrome to be elected to a political party in Ireland (Ard Comhairle, Fianna Fail)
- Eimear McGlinchey + members of Brain Buzzers – Introduction to Brain Health Initiatives/Research in Ireland
- Juan Fortea – Latest neuroimaging and biomarker research in dementia in people with Down syndrome
- Sean Kennelly – Inclusion of people with Down syndrome in clinical trials for dementia
- Mary McCarron – On Joy
Contributors
In October 2022, Fintan Bray became the first person living with Down Syndrome to be elected to a position within an Irish political party. He has been a member of Fianna Fáil for the last 12-14 years and comes from a strong Fianna Fáil family. His election platform was to represent people with a disability all over Ireland, ensuring they get educated and meaningfully paid employment. Up to that point he was the quality officer with the Meath West Fianna Fáil Ogra. He is a member of the Fianna Fáil Disability Network, is on the Regional Advisory Council and the National Council of Down Syndrome Ireland.
Website Reference:
www.thejournal.ie/readme/fianna-fail-ard-fheis-5885638-Oct2022/
Social Media:
A virtual social group connecting people with Down syndrome around Ireland to talk about brain health.
For more information click here
Dr. Fortea combines his research and clinical activities at the Hospital of Sant Pau in Barcelona and the Catalan Foundation for Down Syndrome in Barcelona, Spain. He is the director of the Memory Unit and the founder and director of the Down Syndrome Unit. This unit runs a pioneering population based health plan for adults with Down syndrome in Catalonia. This program is the foundation for the Down Alzheimer Barcelona Neuroimaging Initiative (DABNI), the largest single center cohort with multimodal biomarker studies to study Alzheimer´s disease pathophysiology in Down syndrome.
Juan has extensive experience in clinical practice and in medical research, with a focus on the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome-related Alzheimer’s disease. His expertise is recognized internationally, and is an active participant of the NIA-N Study section, National Institutes of Health (US), the International Scientific Committee of the Jerome Lejeune Foundation (France), as well as at the Clinical Research Committee from the Trisomy 21 Research Society and the Down Syndrome Professional Interest Area, Alzheimer’s Association (US).
Websites:
https://santpaumemoryunit.com/about-us/juan-fortea/
https://www.actc-ds.org/people/juan-fortea-md-phd/
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanfortea/
Professor Sean Kennelly MB BCh BAO PhD FRCP(Lond) FRCPI is a consultant physician in geriatric and stroke medicine in Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) and Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Gerontology in Trinity College. He is Director of the Institute for Memory and Cognition, and the Cognitive Clinical Trials Unit in Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin. He is clinical director of the National Intellectual Disability Memory Service in TUH. He is co-lead investigator on HRB-funded Dementia Trials Ireland, a national clinical trials network, and is principle investigator on HRB-funded of Dementia Research Network Ireland (DRNI). A fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London & Ireland, he has extensively published in his main research areas of ageing, brain health, dementia, and Inflammaging. He has served as chief and principal investigator on several international clinical trials in early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. He is principle investigator and lead-clinical advisor on several industry collaborations investigating novel applications of digital gait and speech biomarkers in detection of cognitive decline. He is a member of the clinical and research advisory panel for the Alzheimer’s Society Ireland and a principal investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is a faculty member for the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin. He is a member of the clinical and research advisory panel for the Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland. He is on several clinical and service advisory committees for the National Clinical Program for Older People and the National Dementia Office. He is a member of the National Dementia Strategy Monitoring Group within the Department of Health. He served as associate dean of higher specialty training in general internal medicine in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 2017-2021.
Websites:
https://www.tuh.ie/Consultants/Professor-Seán-Kennelly-.html
https://www.tcd.ie/medicine/staff/sekennel/
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/spkennelly
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-kennelly-8324a66b/
Further information on Mei Lin Yap is available here
Professor Mary McCarron, PhD RNID RGN BNS FTCD is Professor of Ageing and Intellectual Disability, Director of the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability (TCAID) and Executive Director of the National Intellectual Disability Memory Service. She has held many senior leadership roles in Trinity College including Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
She is the founder and Principal Investigator for IDS-TILDA, the longitudinal comparative study on ageing in persons with intellectual disability including persons with Down syndrome, a global first. IDS-TILDA increases understanding about how lives and chronic conditions change over time for this population, drives changes on healthcare practice and national health policy. She has also led a longitudinal cohort study of dementia in people with Down syndrome spanning over 25 years, which has led to the development of Ireland’s first dedicated National Memory Service for people with an intellectual disability, where she serves as Executive Director.
A champion of patient and public involvement in research (PPI) Mary is Principal Investigator of PPI Ignite Programme at Trinity College Dublin, part of the national network among universities in Ireland funded by the HRB. She received the inaugural HRB Impact Award. She is co-applicant on the HRB’s Clinical Research Network Awards for Dementia Trials Ireland (DTI), a world-class clinical trials’ infrastructure to support and grow dementia intervention studies. In addition, she is the Irish Lead on the H21 Consortium working on Clinical and trial outcome measures for dementia in individuals with Down Syndrome,
Mary has been a key advisor on ageing and policy issues to various governmental and other groups at a national and international level and an active member of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD).
Website:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/mary-mccarron
https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=mccarrm
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/mccarrmmary
https://twitter.com/ageingwithID
https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinity-centre-for-ageing-and-intellectual-disability/
Dr. Eimear McGlinchey is an Assistant Professor in Intellectual Disability in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, and a Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute, focused on identifying early biomarkers of dementia for people with Down syndrome by developing an intervention program using online cognitive training with adults with Down Syndrome.
Eimear’s background is in Psychology and her primary area of interest is in the promotion and maintenance of brain health in people with an intellectual disability, with particular focus on the area of dementia in people with Down syndrome. Eimear’s work in the area of dementia and Down syndrome includes investigating early biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease using neuroimaging, blood- based and cognitive biomarkers and is PI of the PREVENT dementia – DS project. This project is part of a collaborative international study with the Horizon 21 European Down syndrome Consortium. Dr McGlinchey is co-PI on a project that includes the voices of people with an intellectual disability in developing guidelines for post-diagnostic dementia support.
Eimear’s work is based in the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability and is research lead with the National Intellectual Disability Memory Service. Her other areas of interest include equity and inclusion as well as accessibility and innovative dissemination.
Eimear teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the school and provides supervision to undergraduate, masters and PhD students. She is Program Director for the Ageing Health and Wellbeing in Intellectual Disability MSc, the Dementia MSc, and the Community Health MSc in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She has a number of publications and has disseminated widely through national and international conferences.
Websites:
https://www.tcd.ie/tcaid/people/mcgline/
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/eimear-mcglinchey
Social:
12.15-1.00pm
Creative Brain Week Living Labs
Living Labs were an opportunity to dive deep with peers, or engage across experience and disciplines into the topics of Creative Brain Week.
Daily sessions offered attendees an opportunity to discuss, develop and reflect on the themes of the day through
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- Dance and movement with Ailish Claffey
- Visual arts Eliza Squibb and Wambui Karanja
- Mike Hanrahan and Aline Haas music and dance performance
- Neuroscience and dialogue lead by Adolfo Garcia with Shaimaa El-Jaafary. Adolfo’s ambition is to bring together artists and scientists to explore joint projects by dissecting how this has been achieved in past bidirectionally (from arts to science and from science to art) and looking forward with group discussion and smaller group interaction
These sessions reflected the engaged nature of the event and were added to on the day at the venue. These sessions were In Person only.
Contributors
Over the last two decades, Ailish has worked with diverse groups within the community developing her co-creative and Dance for Health practice. Specialising in choreological studies, her work draws from exploring the complexity of human relationship and examining the lived experience of those she works with.
As Dance Artist in Residence at The National Centre for Arts and Health (2015 – 2019) Tallaght University Hospital (TUH), Ailish’s dance film documentary The Dance Back Home received a Certificate of Excellence from the HSE Excellence Awards (2018). Ailish has designed and delivered many large-scale projects nationally and her work has been kindly supported by Dance Ireland, The Arts Council, Ireland, Culture Ireland, Kildare Co. Council, South Dublin Co. Council, The Meath Foundation, The National Centre for Arts and Health among others. Ailish is the recipient of the inaugural Artist in Residence programme at The ACRE Project, Celbridge, a partnership with Kildare County Council Arts Service.
Website:
https://ailishclaffeydance.wordpress.com
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/ailishclaffey
Adolfo García, Ph.D., specializes in the neuroscience of language. He serves as Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina), Global Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute (University of California, San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin), Associate Researcher at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, High-Level Talent of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and President of the TREC translation research network. He is also co-founder of Include, a global network for crosslinguistic research on brain health; and creator of the Toolkit to Examine Lifelike Language (TELL) app. He has authored more than 200 publications and offered over 250 presentations. His science communication milestones include a TEDx talk with a live audience of 12,000 persons, the TV show “Of brains and words,” the video series “Language, brain, and body,” the radio column “Mind and communication,” and the documentary “Impulso sonoro” (Canal Encuentro). His contributions have been recognized by awards and distinctions from the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, the Argentine Association of Behavioral Science, the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, and the Alzheimer’s Association.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
https://www.instagram.com/
Aline is an Associate Professor in Dance at the School of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is currently an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is interested in studying and researching the potential use of dance as a complementary therapy to promote quality of life and wellbeing for older adults with or without neurological disorders. In the last six years, she has been leading the community and research project “Dança e Parkinson” at the School of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/personalpagealinehaas/?pli=1
Social Media:
https://twitter.com/DrAlineHaas
https://www.instagram.com/alinehaas/
https://www.facebook.com/aline.haas.58
It was 1977, Ennis and Doolin were alive with new music. He was in a room on the top floor of a house in Abbey Street creating a new sound with Maura O Connell. They were Tumbleweed. Stocktons Wing were creating a movement down the road on O Connell Street. It was exciting. Maura went to Nashville, he jumped on The Wing Wave ……. It has been a rollercoaster.
As an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College he has been learning about Dementia and ways he can contribute as an artist to promote equity and care for brain health.
Websites:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/mike-hanrahan
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hanrahan-66780946/
Instagram: @mikehanrahanmusic/
Neurology consultant and movement disorders specialist, working as associate professor of Neurology at Cairo University, Egypt. Shaimaa’s role is better described as a medical educator, researcher and clinician . An active member of the specialized movement disorders clinic as well as memory and cognitive dysfunction clinic for more than six years. Shaimaa is fascinated by aging and interested in neurodegenerative diseases, especially Huntington’s disease. Working on raising awareness about these diseases among health professionals and public to improve the quality of care.
Website:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/shaimaa-el-jaafary
Social Media:
Wambui is a psychologist and independent consultant. She grew up in Murang’a, Kenya and is now based in Nairobi, working in research, advocacy and caregiving of dementia in various African settings. Her main interests are in Healthy Ageing, Dementia and MentalHealth. She coordinates the Africa Brain Health Network, an organisation that aims to promote awareness of brain health across the lifespan in Africa and beyond. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Kenyatta University and previously was a graduate attaché atthe British Institute in Eastern Africa where she researched perceptions of cognitive decline and dementia among informal caregivers. She is an analumnus of Young African Leadership Initiative, (YALI) East Africa, and a proud global Atlantic fellow for Equity in Brain Health.
Website:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/wambui-karanja
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wambūi-k-6a071a23b/
Eliza uses textile design to bridge the worlds of art and science. Collaborating with healthcare providers, artists, and artisans, Eliza creates textile patterns that communicate health information for populations with low literacy or language barriers that prevent equitable healthcare access. Eliza’s textile patterns have been funded by grants like the Grand Challenge Exploration grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and her designs have been used in health campaigns in West Africa to promote maternal and infant health. Eliza is an Atlantic Fellow for US + Global Health Equity (AFHE, 2019), and she loves collaborating with other fellows around the world. Eliza co-teaches biomimicry design at the Rhode Island School of Design and human-centered design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a course that connects innovative global start-ups and nonprofits with teams of student engineers. Originally from Maine, Eliza lives in Providence, Rhode Island where she loves to try to hike, but there are no hills in Rhode Island, so she ends up canoeing in the marshes.
Websites:
https://d-lab.mit.edu/about/people/eliza-squibb
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliza-squibb/
2.00 - 3.30pm
The Joy of Shared Learning
The Creative Brain is rooted in the concept of equity. Case studies of the concept delivered and attempts to sustain change.
Chaired by Carmel O’Sullivan
- Iracema Leroi – Inclusive Research: SENSE Cog
- Sarah Fox and Milton Lopez – ArtsAndBrain.com
- Kim MacKenzie Doyle – The Big Idea
- Corrina Grimes – Health Systems Change
Contributors
Iracema is an academic geriatric psychiatrist with a special interest in pragmatic interventions for the cognitive and neuropsychiatric aspects of neurodegenerative disorders, particularly Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Iracema is also an accomplished open water swimmer, with swims including the 44km Manhattan Island Marathon.
Websites:
Sarah completed a PhD at the University of Manchester investigating how Alzheimer’s pathology affects rhythms and communication between different brain regions involved in forming memories.
Despite enjoying the creativity and excitement of working on the edge of our academic understanding, Sarah missed working with the wider public so sidestepped away from the lab bench to follow her passion for science engagement and public involvement. She has worked on several engagement and involvement projects, using her experience in research, communication, co-production, dementia, and brain health to help provision services and support for people living with dementia across Greater Manchester, support reserach involvement and embed prevention and brain health awareness across Greater Manchester.
She now holds a fellowship at the University of Manchester investigating beautiful moments of aesthetic connection for people living with dementia. Specifically investigating how recognising, capturing and reflecting on these experiences enable people living with dementia and their care partners to connect with their ‘in the moment’ selves and how these moments impact upon, their lives and wellbeing.
Her future goal is to focus on the benefits everyday aesthetic moments can have for understanding the experiences of health and wellbeing for those living with dementia; and how this understanding could lend to radical changes in the way we commission services, provision support, and understand care for people living with dementia and their carers, at home and in the community.
Website:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/sarah-fox
Social Media:
Corrina has recently joined NHS England as National Deputy Director in Service Policy Design and Implementation, with current portfolios within Community Health Services, focusing on proactive care, and enhancing health for those who live in care homes.
In October 2022 , the Department of Health in Northern Ireland launched For Now and For The Future – An Advance Care Planning for all Adults. Corrina led the co- production of this policy and implementation plan, which included using creative approaches to help people and their communities to think about planning for the future.
Previously she co-led the palliative care program for Northern Ireland: Palliative Care In Partnership, which aims to improve quality of life for those with palliative and end of life care needs, and those important to them.
In 2017 Corrina was appointed as an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at The Global Brain Institute (GBHI), Trinity College, Dublin, and has been an active member of the community, including leading a Meta- Leadership Master class and workshop in April 2021.
Beginning her career in nutrition and dietetics, Corrina has published a peer reviewed clinical guideline on Nutritional Management of Cancer (and Palliative Care) Patients. In 2010 Corrina was appointed as an Allied Health Professions Consultant in the Northern Ireland’s Public Health Agency. This role involved influencing and implementing health and social care policy, translating research into practice, and commissioning health and social care services across all sectors. Corrina has also led initiatives within the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing under Horizon 2020, which is the European Union’s framework program for research and innovation.
Corrina is an advocate for the global movement called Project ECHO. Project ECHO is a lifelong learning and guided practice model that revolutionises health education and exponentially increases workforce capacity to provide best-practice speciality care and reduce health disparities. In 2014 and 2015 she completed Project ECHO Training at the University of New Mexico, USA. Subsequently leading a number of Project ECHO networks in Northern Ireland, including the first network for people in an ‘unpaid ‘carer role.
Website:
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/
Social Media:
Dr Milton Lopez Norori. MD, MPH is a geriatrician and associate professor in the Medicine School of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua UNAN-Managua based in Nicaragua. He is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute at University of California, San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin. He has a degree in Master in Social Gorontology from Spain and Chile and a degree in Geriatric Care from Valencia, Spain. He provides clinical care to the older people living in nursing homes and rural and urban communities in Nicaragua. He is the President of Fundación Alzheimer´s de Nicaragua during the period of 2016-2022. Milton is a consultant and research about aging, health and public policy in his country.
Milton possesses strong skills in health promotion (preventing chronic diseases, frailty, and disability) as well as knowledge of long-term care strategies. He has a strong communication skill, preventative care, diagnosis and treatment, making networking and teamwork. Additionally, he has extensive experience in geriatric assessment and supporting formal and informal caregivers. He believes to improve the quality of life of older adult and train the trainers and professionals for a good future in Nicaragua.
He has published five national books, three articles in international journal and two chapters of international books up to 2021.
Website
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/milton-lopez
Kim Mackenzie-Doyle is a creative advocate, an internationally recognised product designer and winner of multiple worldwide design awards. Kim is a firm believer in the power of creativity to effect positive change. As a former President and current Director of the Institute of Designers Ireland, she sat on the National Design Forum, a government-led initiative to drive Ireland’s innovative capability. She represents the IDI and The B!G Idea on the Expert Group for Future Skills Needs championing creative education.
She won the Creative Industries Leader of the Year award at the Irish Women’s Awards 2019 for her work on two not-for-profit initiatives reaching international acclaim; WhyDesign and Mind Over Matter. She has been Design Track Captain for Start-up Week Dublin since its inception promoting the value of creativity to early stage start-ups. Kim is the instigator, CEO and Creative Director of The BIG Idea, a creative awarding programme that empowers students across Ireland with creative skills.
And because she is not that busy (note sarcasm) she is a mentor affectionately known as ‘Design Mammy’ to multiple Design babies.
Website:
Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-mackenzie-doyle/
https://www.facebook.com/TheBigIdea.IRL
https://twitter.com/TheBigIdea_IRL
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-big-idea-ireland/
https://www.tiktok.com/@thebigidea_irl
https://www.instagram.com/the_big_idea_irl/
Carmel O’Sullivan is a Professor in Education in the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin, and the convenor of the Arts Education Research Group (AERG). She is a member of the Expert Advisory Group for Creative Ireland (Pillar One), and involved in several funded research projects in the areas of Social Drama and Autism Spectrum Disorder, early childhood arts education, and an innovative work readiness programme for young adults who face significant barriers to entering the workplace (Career LEAP). Carmel has particular expertise in the areas of creativity and inclusivity in education, working nationally and internationally with students, academics, practitioners and policy makers from the worlds of education, health, business, and community. She organises an international Summer School in Drama and Theatre in Education each year (M.Ed.), and is a founding member of ADEI (the Association for Drama in Education in Ireland). Carmel is a regularly invited speaker at national and international conferences, and has delivered lectures and workshops in academic and professional institutions worldwide. She has organised numerous national and international seminars, workshops and conferences. Carmel is very active in her local community and has continued to work with children and young people on a weekly basis throughout her professional career.
Website:
https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=carosull
https://www.tcd.ie/education/courses/postgraduate/masters-in-education/drama-in-education/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carmel-Osullivan-2
Social Media: www.twitter.com/SchoolofEdTCD
4.00-5.30pm
Led By Joy? Connecting Insights from Creativity and Neuroscience for Enduring Global Health.
Creative Brain Week 2023 looks forward. How might the health of a small interconnected planet be nurtured from a week in Dublin?
Speakers include:
- Dr Linda Doyle – Provost, Trinity College Dublin
- Chris Bailey – Joy as Healthcare
- Tania Banotti – Creativity, Climate and Health
Contributors
Christopher Bailey is the Arts and Health Lead at the World Health Organization and a co-founder of the Jameel Arts and Health Lab. The lab is looking at the evidence base for the health benefits of the arts by building up a global network of research centers to look at effective practice as well as the foundational science of why the arts may benefit physical, mental and social wellbeing. The emphasis of the program is supporting underserved communities around the world. Through its Healing Arts activities, he program also engages with the global media to promote pro health messaging and build solidarity on health issues through all media. Educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities as well as the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, after a career as a professional actor and playwright, Christopher joined the Rockefeller Foundation as their Research Manager, and from there was recruited to WHO where he lead the Health Informatics work and later their on-line communications team before starting the Arts and Health program. As an ambassador for the field, he has also performed original pieces such as Stage 4: Cancer and the Imagination, and The Vanishing Point: A journey into Blindness and Perception, in venues around the world from the Hamwe Festival in Rwanda, to the Wellcome Collection in London, to the World Bank in DC, as well as Lincoln Center in NY, the LA Opera, LACMA, and Warner Bros Studios in LA, and the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco among many others. The basic message of his work is to amplify the WHO definition of health which states that health is not merely the absence of disease and infirmity, but the attainment of the highest level of physical, mental and social wellbeing.
Website:
https://www.who.int/initiatives/arts-and-health
Social Media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-bailey-21072050
Tania Banotti has responsibility at Director level for leading and co-ordinating on the Creative Ireland Programme 2023-2027.
Creative Ireland is a programme which connects people, creativity and wellbeing. It is an all-of-government culture and wellbeing programme that inspires and transforms people, places and communities through creativity. It is committed to the vision that every person in Ireland should have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential.
The programme has 5 pillars.
- Creative Youth
- Creative Communities
- Creative Industries
- Creative Health and Wellbeing
- Creative Climate Action and Sustainabaility
In the coming years there will be a shared island dimension to the work of the programme.
Website:
https://www.creativeireland.gov.ie/
Social Media:
ttps://www.facebook.com/CreativeIrl/
https://www.instagram.com/creativeireland/
https://twitter.com/creativeirl
Dr Linda Doyle was appointed the 45th Provost of Trinity College Dublin by staff and student representatives, coming into office on August 1, 2021. The Provost is the Chief Officer of the university responsible to the Board and ultimately to the State for the performance of the university.
She served previously as Trinity’s Dean & Vice President of Research (2018-2020) and was the founding Director of CONNECT – the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for future communication networks. Before that, she was Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Value Chain Research (CTVR).
Prior to her appointment as Provost, Linda was Professor of Engineering and The Arts in Trinity. Her expertise is in the fields of wireless communications, cognitive radio, reconfigurable networks, spectrum management and creative arts practices.
She has raised over €70 million in research funding and has published widely in her field. Linda has a reputation as an advocate for change in spectrum management practices and has played a role in spectrum policy at the national and international level. She has served as Chair of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board in the UK and has been a member of the Open Research Europe Scientific Advisory Board.
She was formerly a Director of Xcelerit and Software Radio Systems Ltd (SRS), two spin-out companies from CTVR. Linda has published extensively and has given over 100 keynotes and invited talks at various events globally.
Combining creative arts practices with engineering for many years, she founded the Orthogonal Methods Group (OMG) a research initiative in CONNECT that works in critical and creative tension with technology with the purpose of generating knowledges, insights and alternative research orientations across disciplines that are sometimes perceived to be mutually exclusive.
She serves on the Board of Science Gallery International (SGI), and served previously on the Board of the Festival of Curiosity, a STEM outreach activity for children based on a city-centre yearly science festival.
Linda has also served as Chair of the Board of the Douglas Hyde Gallery (2013-2021), as a member of the Board of Pallas Project Studios, KTH Sweden Scientific Advisory Board, and the Board of the Wireless Innovation Forum.
As well as her contributions to research and the arts, she is an active advocate for women in engineering and computer science. She has been involved in numerous initiatives such Girls in Tech, Teen Turn, and HerStory.
She holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering (BE) from University College Cork and an MSc, PhD, and PGDIP STATS from Trinity College Dublin. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
Linda is a native of Togher in Cork and attended Togher Girls National School and St Angela’s College.
Website:
Social:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-doyle-3602441a/
https://twitter.com/lindadoyle
5.30-5.45pm
Closing Remarks and Reflections
Brian Lawlor and Dominic Campbell looked back on the speaking events of the week.
Contributors
Professor Brian Lawlor (MD, FRCPI, FRCPsych, FTCD (Hon), DABPN) is Conolly Norman Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, and Site Director of the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College. He is a geriatric psychiatrist with an interest in dementia, late-life depression, loneliness and brain health. Brian has worked for over 30 years on developing services and delivering care to people with dementia. His research interests range from early detection and prevention to evaluating new treatments for dementia.
Websites:
https://www.understandtogether.ie
https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/brian-lawlor
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Dominic Campbell is leading the Creative Brain Week initiative. As Bealtaine Festival Director he steered its celebration of creativity and aging’s development over eight years. Formerly an Artistic Director of Ireland’s national celebration he transformed St Patrick’s Festival’s three shows into ninety growing production, managerial teams, financial support, engagement and impact.
Dominic went on to design and produce national celebrations marking the expansion of European Union in 2004 and Centenary celebrations for James Joyce. For “The Day Of Welcomes” delivering 12 simultaneous festivals pairing EU expansion countries with Irish towns and cities engaging 2,500 artists from 32 countries.
He mentored “celebration of ageing” festivals in Wales (Gwanwynn), Scotland (Luminate), and developed projects with partners in Australia and The Netherlands. In 2012 he established the first global conference on Creativity In Older Age opened by Irish President Michael D Higgins, replicating it in San Francisco (2018) and Kentucky (2019).
Recognized as a key cultural influencer in Ireland by The Irish Times and by First Avenue as a Key Influencer in Aging in the US, in 2016 he became an inaugural Atlantic Fellow for Equity and Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute a project between Trinity College Dublin and University of California San Francisco an ambitious worldwide program seeking social and public health solutions to reduce the scale and adverse impact of dementia. Currently developing an arts programme for the Irish Hospice Foundation as response to the pandemic and the Ageing Voices programme with Sing Ireland.
Website:
www.creativeaginginternational.com
www.gbhi.org/profiles/dominic-campbell
Social:
X: @CreativeAgeIntl and @CreativeBrainWk and @IrelandChorus
