Measuring Humanity

localtrust.org.uk/news-and-stori… Hey all, check out Lucy Terry's blog in 'Understanding Change in Place-based Approaches'. Really interesting work she is carrying out at @LocalTrust

I am resharing an amazing infographic of a talk I recently gave on decolonising bibliographies in case you missed this. #citation #decolonisinghe #decolonize #citationaljustice

Session 1: Centring the Meaning of Place @AndTowns Nicky Marsh, Uni of Southampton & Ella Frears, Poet and Artist @cr8tivpeninsula : Tom Trevor & Dom Jinks, Uni of Exeter @MeasureHumanity : Marisa De Andrade, Uni of Edinburgh & Laura McIver, North Lanarkshire Council (4/7)

Congrats to Art is Everywhere's filmmaker Ryan Pollock! His powerful short film 'Bluebird' is nominated for 'Best UK Short Film in the Over 19s' @ Film the House: judged by Netflix, Warner Bros, Amazon & MPs. Film will be shown in House of Lords at the awards ceremony on 4th July

For more on the Place Programme and the KE projects see: gla.ac.uk/place. @AndTowns; @MeasureHumanity; @cityofcaves; @VisHeritage; @CityMonitoring; @cr8tivpeninsula; #crosspollination @OpenUniversity; #resonance @GSofA; #rootsandfutures @UniShefArch

Understanding the factors that impact behavior is crucial for any successful behavior change intervention. Utilizing theories can be more effective, but with so many theories to choose from, it can be overwhelming. That's where the Theoretical Domains Framework comes in! 1/

Huge congratulations to my wonderful colleagues @emz_davidson @DrARoeschMarsh + Marisa de Andrade @MeasureHumanity on a wonderful launch for their new collaborative and creative endeavour @TheBinksHub - exciting times ahead!

Huge congratulations to Ryan Pollock - Art is Everywhere filmmaker! 📽️🎬 His powerful film 'Bluebird' has been selected for the Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture’s 197th annual exhibition. Showing in Edinburgh's Scottish national gallery - 6th May through to 11th June.

I've been hearing the term 'lived experience' a lot lately in online discourse and among my students. Curious about its rise, I used the Google n-gram tracker and have some thoughts on its results, as a philosophy professor:

Huge congrulations to our own Measuring Humanity founder & co-director of CCRI - Dr. Marisa de Andrade, winning the 2023 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Book Award! icqi.org/qualitative-bo… A bold text in public health - you can find it here: taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

The brilliant choreographer explains her process of dancing “It’s a whole mix of experiences happening in the space & there are 2 tools I’m using - the memory of trying to move towards something & not being able to - & the idea that your eyes can be a lens through which you move”

At @traversetheatre for our @UoE_EFI event with @SDTDance, discussing research, health inequalities, the body, & in this pictured performance viewing dance as “something that is being researched live, where the process of research becomes the product”

T. S. Eliot on logical positivism

Up and coming filmmaker Ryan Pollock from Wishaw, discussing his powerful film ‘Bluebird’ set in his hometown - Immortalising important stories of our places that are too often unheard. #artiseverywhereNL #measurehumanity

Eilidh Manson - our amazing artist in North Lanarkshire who developed creative, up-cycling community workshops at Summerlee. Discussing the transformative ‘affect’ the project has had on her and the people she worked with. #artiseverywhereNL #measurehumanity

The award winning David Gilliver - Art is Everywhere in North Lanarkshire…if you look close enough! 😜 #artiseverywhereNL

Another moving, thought-evoking performance from one half of our talented dancer duo, Luke Macdonald - part of Overdrive dance company. They are doing important work to remove social and cultural barriers for young adults engaging in art in North Lanarkshire. #artiseverywhereNL

The superb Holly Worton & Yas Mawer performing their equally moving and comedic theatrical production Working C(L)assies - celebrating the identity of working class women. How can our systems support spaces for local creativity in N. Lanarkshire? #artiseverywhereNL

The incredible artist Emma Ferla who collaborated with communities in North Lanarkshire to repurpose ‘waste plastics’ into art. Creating new ecological stories for the future and sparking important eco conversations. #artiseverywhereNL #measurehumanity

Powerful words from our talented photographer Wullie Elliot who took up his passion at age 67. Challenging the perception and public attitudes of aging in North Lanarkshire #artiseverywhereNL #measurehumanity