An archive of every meeting of the Healthy Conservatoires Network to date.


Meeting 9: New Technologies for Health and Supporting Performers’ Hearing
Venue: Leeds College of Music
Number of Attendees: 35
Agenda:
- Welcome
- Health, wellbeing, and practice: Perspectives from Musical Impact
Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music
- Developing new technologies for health, wellbeing, and practice
George Waddell, Royal College of Music
- Discussion
- Introduction: The ‘noise’ of performance
Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music
- Monitoring musicians’ hearing: Results from the Royal Academy of Music
Ben Dymock, London South Bank University
- Best practice in effective conservation of auditory health for performers
Robert Shepheard, Anglian Hearing Healthcare
- Supporting performers’ hearing
Aidan Culley, Help Musicians UK
- Discussion
- AOB
Meeting 8: Addressing Challenges
Venue: Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Number of Attendees: 50
Agenda:
- Introduction to the theme and aims of the day
- Exploring performance anxiety (Institutional case studies)
- Roundtable discussion
- BAPAM Health Promotion Scheme
- Reaching one to one teaching staff: challenges and solutions? (Perspectives on reaching one-to-one teaching staff)
- Roundtable discussion
Meeting 7: Implementation, Evaluation, and Research
Venue: Musicians’ Union, London
Number of Attendees: 21
Agenda:
- Implementation, Evaluation, and Research
- Implementing Fit to Perform
- Evaluation Techniques
- Developing Research
- Collaborating in Research
- Funding
Meeting 6: Widening Horizons
Venue: Royal Northern College of Music
Number of Attendees: 28
Agenda:
- RNCM Case Study
- Widening horizons: Health beyond the conservatoire
- Help Musicians UK – New services
- Treatment in the educational setting
Meeting 5: Mapping Assets
Venue: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Number of Attendees: 35
Agenda:
- Healthy Conservatoires’ guidelines
- Discussing BAPAM
- Musical Impact updates
- Mapping assets update and consolidating challenges
- Case study examples – Codarts, Rotterdam
- Evaluation and monitoring
Meeting 4: Assessing Challenges, Part II
Venue: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Number of Attendees: 20
Agenda:
- Recap and update of Challenge 1 and 2: Mapping assets and case studies
- Introducing Challenge 3: Creating a team
- Involving students
- The role of the network
- Evaluation and monitoring
Meeting 3: Assessing Challenges, Part I
Venue: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Number of Attendees: 30
Agenda:
- Setting Challenge 1: Mapping health and wellbeing assets in the UK conservatoire sector
- Assessing the process
- Challenge 2: Institutional case studies
- Communication and student engagement
- Evaluation and monitoring
Meeting 2: Developing the Healthy Conservatoires Network
Venue: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Number of Attendees: 22
Agenda:
- Development of terms of reference
- Creating a Healthy Conservatoire
- Developing ‘Fit to Perform’ – a framework for health promotion in the UK conservatoire sector
Meeting 1: Introduction to the Healthy Conservatoires Network
Venue: Royal College of Music, London
Number of Attendees: 14
Agenda:
- Introduction to Musical Impact: A CUK project
- Describing Healthy Universities
- Suggesting a Healthy Conservatoires approach
- Towards a healthier CUK