Date: Tuesday 10 December 2024
Time: 17:15 - 19:00
Location:
The Curve Lecture Theatre,
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About the event
For our next Open Spaces event "Graphic Medicine: why healthcare professionals should read and make comics" join Dr Ian Williams for this workshop looking at Graphic Medicine - an area of study and practice, based around the use of comics in healthcare, which he named and helped found.
In this Open Spaces session, Ian will talk about the use of images in a healthcare context and the particular power of comics - a hybrid medium of text and images which is being increasingly used to relate experiences of illness, stories of healthcare workers or patient information.
You will also have the opportunity to take part in some short exercises designed to give participants an introduction to the practice. No drawing skills are required.
Refreshments will be provided afterwards.
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About the speaker
Dr Ian Williams is an award-winning comics artist, educator, and doctor based in Brighton. He authored The Bad Doctor (2014), The Lady Doctor (2019), and is currently working on The Sick Doctor.
After studying Fine Art following medical school, he became a pioneer of the Graphic Medicine field, founding the Graphic Medicine website in 2007, which he co-edits. He is a founding member of the Graphic Medicine International Collective and co-author of the Eisner-nominated Graphic Medicine Manifesto.
Dr Williams created Sick Notes, a weekly comic for The Guardian (2015–2017), and collaborated with Matilda Tristram on an animation for Exeter University’s Care Under Pressure project. In 2022, he was commissioned by the Wellcome Collection for the comic series Sorry To Keep You Waiting.
He has spoken at numerous medical humanities, comics, and literary events and was recently featured in the British Medical Association President’s Inspiring Doctors podcast.
In medicine, he has worked as a GP, anaesthetist, expedition medic, GP trainer, and clinical lecturer, and served as a mountain rescue doctor in Snowdonia in the 1990s.
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Contact Details
If you have additional questions, please contact the Open Spaces Team.