Coastal Community & Creative Health
@CoastalCCH
Research project on health equity in coastal regions in England, funded by @ahrcpress (2024-27). ⛱️🩺🧠 Principal Investigators: @BarbaraMezes & @Lucy_Selman
Our team across England has now started working on this project! Read all about it here👇
Funding news📢Delighted to be awarded £2.4 million by @UKRI_News @ahrcpress to lead a national partnership to tackle health inequalities in coastal communities with @BarbaraMezes at @LivUni Read more👇 capcnews.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/02/15/nat… @WsM_Community @capcbristol @PEoLCSW
Fantastic news!!! Grief education has been included in the Relationships & Sex Education (#RSE) statutory guidance! For more on Grief Education, see our article. This research was supported by @BristolUni @HelloBrigstow & @SWWDTP bereavementjournal.org/index.php/bcj/…
Last week we held our annual in-person team meeting in Weston-super-Mare. It was lovely to welcome colleagues from across sectors from Blackpool/the NW and Hastings/the SW and show them around Weston in the sunshine! Blog here coastalcch.bristol.ac.uk/news/#WSM-meet… @Lucy_Selman @MobCommAssets
Recordings and slides from our first capacity-building workshops now available. "A changing landscape and the need for complexity-informed approaches" and "Trauma-informed practice: Tools, stories, and strategies for impact" coastalcch.bristol.ac.uk/capacity-build… @Lucy_Selman @MobCommAssets
Our first speaker is @CDenckla from @HarvardChanSPH & @StanleyCenter @Harvard, who will join us on 30 July to discuss a public health perspective on grief & bereavement: ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffest/…
We are delighted to announce our new seminar series showcasing inspiring research & scholarship – locally, nationally & internationally – to connect Bristol to a global conversation about grief & loss. To find out more & join our mailing list, visit griefcentre.bristol.ac.uk
Do you work for a bereavement service? If so, pls take a look at this v. short survey for a project we are running to support the analysis of qualitative client feedback data. Open until 31 July. There'll also be a focus group on 17 Sept - see flyer. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/bere…
Wonderful to see this @BBCNews article about the Grief Centre on @BBCBristol. It features 2 brilliant @goodgrieffest collaborators, Kat Lyons & Helen Acklam, who share their experiences of grief & how they turned to creativity to understand & process them: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Read the latest blog on our website about the ripple effects of our project in the North West. Healthwatch Blackpool have witnessed significant changes in their daily work through being part of CC&CH in the past year. coastalcch.bristol.ac.uk/news/#ripple-e… @Lucy_Selman @MobCommAssets
Thanks to everyone who came to the launch of the Bristol Centre for Grief Research & Engagement. It was great to celebrate the new centre with colleagues, friends & collaborators. Together we hope to change the way that grief is seen, spoken about & understood
Life in a Coastal Town: New exhibition explores mental health and community through art. Read about our exhibition opening next week at Weston Museum. coastalcch.bristol.ac.uk/press-release/… @Lucy_Selman @MobCommAssets
Grief and death affect us all & yet we often struggle to talk about them. The anxieties can be greater for people with learning disabilities & their families, friends & carers. Check out our blog, resource list & webinar here: goodgrieffest.com/journal/grief-…
🚨 Hospice UK has today launched a landmark report calling for urgent action to improve access to palliative and end of life care in remote, rural and island communities across the UK. With a foreword by @CMO_England, it sets out what must change. hospiceuk.org/latest-from-ho…
Thanks to everyone at @STMHospice & @18hoursevents for a great kick off to Good Grief Hastings! @GoodGriefFest will be part of the @CoastalCCH project, which uses creative approaches to address health inequalities.
It was very exciting to attend the 'soft launch' of Good Grief Hastings & meet some of the brilliant people who are working to make it happen as part of the Coastal Communities & Creative Health project. We can't wait for 2026!
A beautiful eulogy by @catherine_mayer, thank you for sharing it with @GoodGriefFest
We are sorry to share the news that author & @goodgrieffest contributor Anne Mayer Bird has died. In this GGF blog, Anne's daughter @catherine_mayer shares her eulogy & reflects on how their relationship was impacted by their shared experience of grief: goodgrieffest.com/journal/good-g…
Continues TONIGHT – still time to join! You can sign up to the remaining 6 sessions of @thebereavementj a gentle online course offering space to talk, reflect & heal. 💬 Real stories of grief & hope in this moving video. 👉 thebereavementjourney.org/national-onlin… #GriefSupport #YouAreNotAlone
Eleanor Lockley's thought-provoking blog about advocacy for Creative Health investigates how to widen the reach of Creative Health, in Doncaster and beyond. Head over to the Creative Health Boards' website to have a read -creativehealthboards.org.uk/advocacy-for-c…
We learnt so much from Robert Neimeyer & Carolyn Ng @PortlandLoss in the first session of our When Grief Is Complicated course. Check out this clip! There's less than a week left to register to join the course & access over 7 hours of content. More here: goodgrieffest.com/the-grief-acad…
Stephanie Meddick-Dyson (@DrStephMeddickD) is inviting people to share their experiences of care in the Intensive Care Unit through focus groups or interviews. Please see the flyer or get in touch with Stephanie for more details
Join us for our next PEOLC research network meeting on Thursday 19 June 10am-12pm. We have an exciting list of speakers and interesting talks lined up. Register here forms.office.com/Pages/Response…
We're delighted to share that @ace_national has highlighted #GoodGriefWeston as ‘a best practice example of cross-sector collaboration and the role of creativity in promoting health and wellbeing in our communities’. Huge thanks to all involved! Read more: artscouncil.org.uk/creative-matte…