
Dr Pamela Whitaker
Lecturer MSc Art Psychotherapy, FHEA
Title of Talk
PhotoVoice: Picturing Place in the Making
Dr Pamela Whitaker is a lecturer in art psychotherapy at the Belfast School of Art with a keen interest in using photography to document the art of walking. She is currently on the research team for CHOICE (Challenging Health Outcomes/Integrating Care Environments), which will establish a community partnership to co-produce innovative arts-based approaches to tackling social exclusion and reducing the health inequalities experienced by people living with mental health challenges. She will be speaking about CHOICE and her collaboration with Inspire Wellbeing, experts with lived experience, a community advisory board and associate researchers from the disciplines of photography, architecture, psychology, history, and the social sciences.
Pamela will be joined on stage by members of the PhotoVoice team