ARTiculating Practice: Arts and Creative Health Symposium

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Date: Wednesday 4 November 2026
Venue: Michael Sterling auditorium, Brunel University of London
Time: 09:00–17:00

This one-day symposium brings together arts therapies students, alumni, researchers, practitioners, educators and interdisciplinary collaborators to explore how artistic and creative practice, therapeutic relationships and research remain meaningfully interconnected within contemporary arts therapies.

The event will also launch the Brunel Arts and Creative Health Community of Practice: connecting graduates, current students, researchers and practitioners beyond the university, supporting lifelong learning through mentoring, collaborative research and continuing professional dialogue.

  • Arts therapies alumni and current students
  • Practitioners and educators in arts therapies and creative health
  • Researchers and doctoral students with an interest in practice-based and arts-based research
  • Interdisciplinary collaborators working across arts, health and social care

The day opens with a panel discussion, Keeping it Real in Arts Therapies Research: Feeling, Evidence and What Actually Produces Change, chaired by Professor Dominik Havsteen-Franklin, Professor of Arts Psychotherapies & Creative Health, NHS Consultant in Arts Psychotherapies.

The programme continues with parallel research and practice presentations, experiential arts-based workshops, paired mentoring conversations between early-career and established researchers and practitioners, and a closing community conversation setting out next steps for the Community of Practice.

  • Date: Wednesday 4 November 2026
  • Time: 09:00–17:00
  • Venue: Michael Sterling auditorium, Brunel University of London
  • In-person fee: £30 (Free for Brunel Students and Alumni - Contact Kate.Lenton@brunel.ac.uk for the discount code)
  • In-person capacity: 100 places limit
  • Online capacity: Unlimited
  • Online fee: £15 (Free for Brunel Students and Alumni - Contact Kate.Lenton@brunel.ac.uk for the discount code)
  • 09:00–09:30 Arrival, registration and creative welcome
  • 09:30–11:00 Opening panel discussion
  • 11:00–11:30 Morning break
  • 11:30–13:00 Parallel research and practice presentations
  • 13:00–14:00 Lunch, posters and networking
  • 14:00–15:30 Parallel experiential workshops and paired mentoring
  • 15:30–16:00 Afternoon break
  • 16:00–17:00 Creative wrap-up, community conversation and next steps

We welcome submissions in the following categories:

  • Research papers
  • Practice presentations
  • Clinical case reflections
  • MA and doctoral research
  • Research-in-progress discussions
  • Arts-based workshops
  • Poster presentations
  • Creative demonstrations and performances

Submissions might address (though are not limited to) practice and research integration, creativity and the therapeutic process, community and belonging, emerging research, and writing and dissemination.

To submit, please email an abstract of up to 250 words (including presentation type) to Liliana.MontoyaDeLaCruz@brunel.ac.uk by 30th September 2026

Places can be booked through this page. Please register now to guarantee your place.
For queries about the symposium or to submit a contribution, please email Liliana.MontoyaDeLaCruz@brunel.ac.uk
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