Talks
I've given a lot of talks over the years - online and in person. (I think this is the bit where I'm supposed to write 'Lorna is a highly experienced speaker ...')
Mostly these have focused on social policy or the law as it relates to ageing and care; or on life as it is influenced by serious illness, disability, or life-changing injury, where people therefore need to explore some aspect of health, housing or social care services or support. The former have often been for universities, charities, the NHS and local government; the latter talks have tended to be for family carers and (through training sessions) to health, care, and housing professionals, solicitors, MSc students, and people who've reached their later years.
In the past ...
Over the years I've spoken at a lot of conferences - for example, for Central Law Training (CLT), and Solicitors for the Elderly - and at conferences and seminars for older people, and for those working with them, on topics including paying for care; independence in later life; housing options; personalising health and care; and quality of life.
From 2001-2005 I gave guest lectures on the MSc Gerontology at King's College, London; and 3 or 4 annual guest lectures between 2005 and 2014 to MSc Gerontology students at the University of Southampton, as part of my role as a Visiting Research Fellow at their Centre for Research on Ageing. The lectures covered topics such as: Policy initiatives in social care; The mixed economy of care; Accessing and paying for care.
During 2015 I spent quite a bit of time delivering training to adult social services staff and NHS Mental Health Trust staff, in various parts of England, on aspects of the (then newly in place) Care Act 2014, as part of the Care & Health Law team run by Belinda Schwehr.
Between 2011 and 2020, I gave over 160 talks and other sessions for corporate organisations on anything and everything to do with being a carer, living with dementia, and accessing and paying for different types of care and support, through Employees Matter. In 2019, talks about ways to support any colleague who is a carer, and workplace support for colleagues with chronic illness or disability, were filmed for Moving Ahead.
What next? What now!
I have a very good speaking voice (an important, and often overlooked, part of being a speaker of any kind), and in 2020/21 am further developing this area.
More and more of my work has become focused on storytelling, in different forms. In 2004-05 I studied Life History at the University of Sussex, trained in autobiographical storytelling (or, true life stories) at the International School of Storytelling at Emerson College (Sussex, UK) in 2017-18, and have worked with organisations such as the Local Area Coordinators Network on using storytelling in their work. As well as the earlier training in making short photofilms about people's stories, I'm also currently working in a small team using a storytelling technique - Most Significant Change - for the qualitative evaluation element of a 32-project programme of arts for older people funded by the Arts Council of England/ Baring Foundation. This work, which began in 2017, is led by IBA - Imogen Blood & Associates - and will conclude in 2021.
Mostly these have focused on social policy or the law as it relates to ageing and care; or on life as it is influenced by serious illness, disability, or life-changing injury, where people therefore need to explore some aspect of health, housing or social care services or support. The former have often been for universities, charities, the NHS and local government; the latter talks have tended to be for family carers and (through training sessions) to health, care, and housing professionals, solicitors, MSc students, and people who've reached their later years.
In the past ...
Over the years I've spoken at a lot of conferences - for example, for Central Law Training (CLT), and Solicitors for the Elderly - and at conferences and seminars for older people, and for those working with them, on topics including paying for care; independence in later life; housing options; personalising health and care; and quality of life.
From 2001-2005 I gave guest lectures on the MSc Gerontology at King's College, London; and 3 or 4 annual guest lectures between 2005 and 2014 to MSc Gerontology students at the University of Southampton, as part of my role as a Visiting Research Fellow at their Centre for Research on Ageing. The lectures covered topics such as: Policy initiatives in social care; The mixed economy of care; Accessing and paying for care.
During 2015 I spent quite a bit of time delivering training to adult social services staff and NHS Mental Health Trust staff, in various parts of England, on aspects of the (then newly in place) Care Act 2014, as part of the Care & Health Law team run by Belinda Schwehr.
Between 2011 and 2020, I gave over 160 talks and other sessions for corporate organisations on anything and everything to do with being a carer, living with dementia, and accessing and paying for different types of care and support, through Employees Matter. In 2019, talks about ways to support any colleague who is a carer, and workplace support for colleagues with chronic illness or disability, were filmed for Moving Ahead.
What next? What now!
I have a very good speaking voice (an important, and often overlooked, part of being a speaker of any kind), and in 2020/21 am further developing this area.
More and more of my work has become focused on storytelling, in different forms. In 2004-05 I studied Life History at the University of Sussex, trained in autobiographical storytelling (or, true life stories) at the International School of Storytelling at Emerson College (Sussex, UK) in 2017-18, and have worked with organisations such as the Local Area Coordinators Network on using storytelling in their work. As well as the earlier training in making short photofilms about people's stories, I'm also currently working in a small team using a storytelling technique - Most Significant Change - for the qualitative evaluation element of a 32-project programme of arts for older people funded by the Arts Council of England/ Baring Foundation. This work, which began in 2017, is led by IBA - Imogen Blood & Associates - and will conclude in 2021.
