MindReading Project 

Posted 22 July 2020

This year the MindReading Project in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre, Dublin, is continuing in virtual form with online public engagement activities.  MindReading asks how literature might usefully inform the science and practice of clinical medicine. Lived experience and service user experts by experience groups have been central to the project. The Covid 19 crisis highlights the need for such interdisciplinary approaches and the impact of a physical health crisis on the mental health of the entire population (Barrett, 2019; MindReading, 2017; UCD, 2017). Each day the MindReading has published a recording of a poem to their twitter feed with the hashtag #PauseforaPoem. Contributors record a poem accompanied by an explanation of the choice. The poems range from public domain poems including children’s rhymes and classics, to original and collaborative works in response to the current situation. The project aims to offer space for reflection in the busy days of clinicians, researchers and members of the public alike, highlighting the importance of creativity and language to mental health even - especially - in the most difficult times. All recordings can be accessed at (opens in a new window)https://rcpi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?noredirect=true#folderID=%225bc5a821-aa7f-448d-8fa9-ab9000b6254f%22.

Contact: Harriet Wheelock at Harriet.wheelock@rcpi.ie 

https://www.ucd.ie/medicine/mindreading

MindReading Online Exhibition

MindReading Project in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre, Dublin, online exhibition ‘“The Most Terrible of all the Ministers of Death’: Smallpox and the Introduction of Vaccination to Ireland”, can be viewed at (opens in a new window)https://sway.office.com/glTw63oPZ4esAIV9?ref=Link