PICTURE THIS: What is Health?
FREE ENTRY ~ OPEN TO ALL ~ £250 PRIZE
WHAT DOES HEALTH MEAN TO YOU?
The REALITIES Research Project is proud to announce a photography prize exploring our beliefs about health, to celebrate the establishment of a formal partnership with “The Sustainable Healer“, a new educational movement for health professionals that know there is more to healthcare than the way we are practising it. Is health about striving to eliminate pain and illness, or more about being able to adapt in the face of adversity. Maybe you want to explore what health means to society as a whole? All entries will inform this important research project.
HOW TO ENTER
Guidelines
- Photographs must be sent in in JPEG or PNG format as this is accessible over the majority of platforms/devices.
- Photo subjects need to have read the above Background and Information section and given opportunities to ask questions
- Photo subjects need to have given clear written consent to be involved in the project
- If your photographs involve any vulnerable group and/or children, the parent/caregiver needs to give written consent.
DOWNLOAD: Consent Form
It is your responsibility to ensure that you have read and understood the information above, please get in touch with lsoweid@ed.ac.uk if you are unclear about anything in order to get answers.
Once you have read the guidelines, the background, and have filled out the consent form, please email both your photo submission and the consent form to REALITIES Project Manager Leah at lsoweid@ed.ac.uk.
Background and Information on the REALITIES Project
REALITIES is a UKRI-funded project investigating health inequalities across Clackmannanshire, Easter Ross, Edinburgh, Dundee, and North Lanarkshire (referred to as our REALITIES ‘hubs’). We are made up of a transdisciplinary collective of individuals, led by Dr Marisa de Andrade from the University of Edinburgh, with lived and felt experience of inequalities. We work alongside policymakers, local authorities, charities, artists, environmentalists and researchers from policy, health humanities, art, psychology, human geography, dentistry, medicine, statistics, counselling, and design and innovation.
We are interested in understanding what work is needed to enable places to reimagine and build ‘systems’ that create equitable health and wellbeing. The Art of the Possible photography competition provides a means to gather input on how you envision a ‘sustainable NHS of tomorrow, and will help us build an understanding of your experiences in and hopes for health and social care systems in Scotland, their impact on who uses them, and how these might be improved.
REALITIES will use the photo entries as data, and project collaborators will require access to the photos for the purposes of analysis. Please be aware that any sharing of the data and analysis is strictly for the purposes of shared learning across the hubs within the REALITIES project and not for commercial use.
Upon completion of the REALITIES project in 2027, the data collected via this photography competition will be deposited into DataShare, a digital repository of research data produced at the University of Edinburgh for sharing and safekeeping.
For more information about REALITIES:
UKRI: Projects to Help Communities Reduce Health Inequalities
Measuring Humanity: REALITIES
Frontiers Journal of Public Health: REALITIES in health disparities
Get in touch with the Project Manager at lsoweid@ed.ac.uk for any questions or comments about the project.
