S01 E13 - Dr Nicky Abraham & Victoria Ruddock
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Incredible conversation with Dr Nicola Abraham, (Senior Lecturer, Applied Theatre Practices, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Victoria Ruddock, (Dementia Specialist Healthcare Support Worker, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust) detailing their work on a range of Applied Theatre, film and VR projects in NHS hospitals. We discussed in detail how they have been developing new ‘person-centred’ approaches to creating bespoke artefacts, including VR 360 videos, intergenerational augmented reality-based process dramas with primary school children and older adult patients living with dementia.
A huge thank you to Nicola and Victoria for sharing their inspirational and innovative practice.
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Dr Nicky Abraham Bio:
Lecturer in Applied Theatre Practices at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has most recently been working on a range of applied theatre, film and VR projects in NHS hospitals to develop new person-centred approaches to creating bespoke artefacts, including VR 360 videos, intergenerational augmented reality-based process dramas with primary school children and older adult patients living with dementia, and films to improve subjective wellbeing of patients in acute dialysis wards. She has published in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (RiDE), Applied Theatre Research, Contemporary Theatre Review and co-edited the 2nd Edition of The Applied Theatre Reader (2020), and Applied Theatre with Urban Youth: Witnessing Change (forthcoming, 2020/2021). Lecturer in Applied Theatre Practices at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has most recently been working on a range of applied theatre, film and VR projects in NHS hospitals to develop new person-centred approaches to creating bespoke artefacts, including VR 360 videos, intergenerational augmented reality-based process dramas with primary school children and older adult patients living with dementia, and films to improve subjective wellbeing of patients in acute dialysis wards. She has published in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (RiDE), Applied Theatre Research, Contemporary Theatre Review and co-edited the 2nd Edition of The Applied Theatre Reader (2020), and Applied Theatre with Urban Youth: Witnessing Change (forthcoming, 2022), and Supporting patients living with dementia during a pandemic: Digital theatre and educational spaces (forthcoming 2022).
Victoria Ruddock Bio:
Dementia Specialist Healthcare Support Worker for the Dementia Care Team within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust seconded to Co-Project Lead collaborative Student Knowledge Exchange project for the partnership with Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing, in the Philippines and has extensive experience working with older adults living with dementia and experiencing delirium in both hospitals and care home contexts. Victoria has additionally undertaken team leadership support in a nursing home and a private Nurse for people living with dementia. Victoria has also taken part in a TEDx talk about her work facilitating applied theatre projects in acute dialysis wards, and medicine for the elderly wards with students, and is co-author: Supporting patients living with dementia during a pandemic: Digital theatre and educational spaces (forthcoming, 2022).
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