Creative Lives is a podcast which opens provocative conversations, experimenting with big ideas and local practices. We bring together researchers, experts by experience, artists and performers, approaching issues around community, learning, communication, healthcare, welfare, age and the life course. The possibilities of creativity are endless. Our theme today is “Lifelong learning”, with guests, Emily Bradfield and Deborah Padfield.

Emily Bradfield is an independent arts consultant who supports people to reimagine evaluation, and manage projects creatively. She's also charity director of Arts and Minds, which is an arts and mental health charity working across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Emily holds a PhD in creative ageing from the University of Darby. She is passionate about bridging the gap between research and practice, advocating arts for social change and weaving creativity throughout research, evaluation and practice.

Deborah Padfield is a visual artist and senior lecturer in Arts and Health Humanities at St. George's, University of London, and a teaching lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art here at UCL. She collaborates with both clinicians and academics and her research explores the potential of photographic images, co-created with people who have pain, to facilitate a patient-clinician communication, so new ways of communicating about pain. Her latest book is Encountering Pain: hearing, seeing, speaking, edited with J. M. Zakrzewska. It can be accessed here: uclpress.co.uk/Pain

The presenter is Lorna Collins. The podcast is produced by Grand Challenges and published by UCL Minds. The editing is by Nina Quach, and the music is by Tim Moor.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/creative-lives-episode-6-lifelong-learning