Family Planning: The Lived Experience Through Art - Panel Discussion 

Disability History Month / Family Planning: The Lived Experience Through Art - Panel Discussion

The University of Wolverhampton is pleased to host an online discussion about the research project that has investigated the lived experience of family planning for women living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and their partners. This event is an opportunity to hear from the Team involved, see some of the compelling work made by selected artists and join in live with Questions & Answers.

Our project explored experiences through the different phases of the reproductive journey; preparing to start a family; being pregnant; after having a child; also, for women who do not want to have children. Researchers worked to take those insights and findings and use them in a way to support other women living with IBD (and their partners) and the healthcare professionals who provide the support and guidance.

The research team recruited 4 artists: Sorrel Milne (animator); Jessica Butcher (illustrator); Rae Francis (graphic designer); and Paul Stringer (documentary filmmaker). The artists were provided with IBD information from the healthcare professionals, the anonymised transcripts of the women interviewed and guidance from C&CUK to form their artistic concepts and final interpretations. 3 of the artists have created engaging pieces of work based on their interpretation of academic research data. The documentary maker has captured the whole project, this being the initial aims of the research and particularly the thought processes of the artists and how they "see/ saw" the stories of the women and their partners.

This discussion was recorded on 30th November 2021.

Disability History Month 2021

 / Mike Layward: We are Invisible, We are Visible / Family Planning: The Lived Experience Through Art - Panel Discussion / Paul Darke: Why Bother? The Art of Disability - Practice Does Not Make the Perfect (Disrupting Bodies) / Sam Rapp: UN International Day for Disabled People / Deb Alma: Poetry on Prescription: Creative Writing & Wellbeing /Jennifer Gilbert: How a Manchester Gallery Supports Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists Tony Heaton: The Art of Disability History; A personal view through NDACA (the national disability arts collection and archive)