Dr Karen Gray
BA, PhD, PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School for Policy Studies
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Research interests
Methods and approaches for evaluating and researching arts and leisure activities for health and wellbeing; ageing and dementia; knowledge exchange and policy development; arts and cultural sector; embedded research; evidence use in social care.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Hoppiness: Brewing with Care Homes
Principal Investigator
Description
This inter-disciplinary project involves working alongside older adults living in care homes, their carers and brewers to explore the histories and cultures of brewing in the South West and…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2024 to 31/10/2024
Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts: Lessons to Learn from COVID-19
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
This project will seek to compare the responses to COVID-19 of sector and policy stakeholders in theatre and the performing arts, with the aim of contributing to preparedness for similar crises.Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
17/04/2023 to 16/04/2024
ConnectED: Connecting Evidence to Decision Making
Role
Other
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2022 to 31/12/2024
Publications
Recent publications
23/02/2024“Shooting in the dark”:
Evidence and Policy
Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts:
Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts:
Considering leisure and dementia
Leisure and everyday life with dementia
Pandemic theatre: how England's theatre organisations responded to COVID-19
Pandemic Culture
The analogue journey method
Creative Data Analysis Handbook