Co-Producing care knowledges

This is a coproduced session on co-producing Care knowledges. The authors have recently worked together on the ‘Documenting Paid Homecare’ project, which explored the everyday/everynight experiences of homecare workers as they provide paid care, and we are now collaborating on the Homecare Case study, which is part of a larger Care Aesthetics Research Exploration (CARE) project* with colleagues at the University of Manchester.

The session will focus on Caroline (a paid homecare worker working in the community sector), Dominique (a paid homecare worker providing live-in care) and Kerry (an academic interested in sensory ways of knowing care) reflecting on the strengths and challenges of what Kerry names ‘a decolonising feminist imaginary’ approach, when researching paid homecare work. Our questions include: who and what is being included and excluded when developing policy in the Adult Social Care sector? How might embodied ways of knowing care be researched in participatory ways? And why might knowledges developed by carers make a difference when providing care? These questions will be explored in a very concrete way through discussing our practices on the ‘Documenting Paid Homecare’ project and the plans for the Care Aesthetics project. 

*The CARE project is a cross disciplinary and cross institutional project and includes paid homecare workers, carers working in NHS dementia wards, an NHS Trust senior manager, practicing performance artists and academics from Dementia Nursing, Theatre Studies and Workplace Learning.  

Attendees are encouraged to review the project’s website prior to the seminar: Care aesthetics research project - Creative Manchester - The University of Manchester

Speakers:

• Dominique Davies
• Caroline Firmin
• Dr Kerry Harman
• Dr Kate Maguire-Rosier
• Réka Polonyi

- this session is free to attend but booking is required.