Historic Landscapes and Mental Wellbeing Conference
Friday 13 April 2018
10:00 – 17:00
Fusion Building, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB
Using historic landscapes and heritage resources of various kinds to promote well-being represents one of the most significant advances in archaeological resource management for many years. Its potential contribution to health-care and wellness initiatives is boundless. Prompted by the ongoing HLF-funded Human Henge project, this conference provides an opportunity to hear about this and work going on across the country and at many different scales, share experiences, and to discuss the outcomes, implications, and theoretical underpinnings of heritage-based well-being projects.
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Programme
09:30-10:00 COFFEE (Poster displays available for viewing throughout the day)
10:00-10:15 Dr Sara Lunt (Chair, Human Henge Board) and Professor Timothy Darvill (Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Centre for Archaeology and Anthropology, Bournemouth University)
Welcome and introduction
10:15-10:30 Liz Ellis (Policy Adviser Communities and Diversity, Heritage Lottery Fund) and Alice
Kershaw (Head of Business Process Review, Heritage Lottery Fund)
Mental wellbeing and historic landscapes: the heritage context
10:30-10:50 Dr Toby Sutcliffe (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust)
Therapeutic landscapes past and present: the mental health context
10:50-11:10 Laura Drysdale (Director of the Restoration Trust)
Walking with intent in ancient landscapes
11:10-11:30 Professor Timothy Darvill and Yvette Staelens (Senior Teaching Fellow, Bournemouth University)
Monuments for life: Human Henge at Stonehenge and Avebury
11:30-11:50 Dr Vanessa Heaslip (Principal Academic in Adult Nursing, Bournemouth University)
Human Henge: Stonehenge as a healing environment in the 21st Century
11:50-12:10 Martin Allfrey (Senior Curator of Collections, West, English Heritage) and Briony Clifton
(Assistant Archaeologist, National Trust)
Past Perceptions: people changing places changing people
12:10-12.30 Discussion
Led by Daniel O’Donoghue (Wiltshire Locality Manager, Richmond Fellowship) and members of Human Henge.
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Claire Nolan (Department of Archaeology, University of Reading)
Therapeutic landscapes of prehistory: exploring the therapeutic value and potential of prehistoric landscapes for the present day
14:00-14:30 Dr Ellie Williams (Lecturer in Archaeology, Canterbury Christchurch University) and Dr
Lesley Hardy (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, Canterbury Christ Church University)
‘The People Before Us’: exploring heritage and wellbeing in coastal Kent
14:30-15:00 Mark Evans (CEO Waterloo Uncovered) and David Ulke (Welfare Officer, Waterloo Uncovered)
Battlefield archaeology and recovery
15:00-15:30 AFTERNOON TEA BREAK
15:30-16:00 Helen Johnston (Thames Discovery programme, Museum of London Archaeology)
Messing about on the river: Volunteering and well-being on the Thames foreshore
16:00-16:30 Rebecca L Hearne (University of Sheffield)
The archaeological imagination: alternative ways of seeing for mental health recovery
16:30-16:45 Discussion
16:45-17:00 Alex Coulter (Director of Arts and Health South West)
Summing up
