Why visiting a museum is good for everyone: cultural heritage, health and wellbeing

Thu 2 February

Department of Zoology

Please join us for the Department of Zoology’s Annual Equality and Wellbeing Lecture followed by a drinks reception in the Whale Hall of the Zoology Museum.

Our guest speaker is Helen Chatterjee, Professor of Human & Ecological Health at University College London. Helen will be talking about ‘Why visiting a museum is good for everyone: cultural heritage, health and wellbeing’

H?osted by: Rebecca Kilner, Director, Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and Lynn Dicks, Chair of Equality and Wellbeing Committee, Department of Zoology.

This lecture is supported by the Collections Connections Communities Strategic Research Initiative.

B?iography
Helen Chatterjee is Professor of Human & Ecological Health at UCL. She is also currently the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Research Programme Director for Health Inequalities. Helen co-founded the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance; is an Advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts and Health; and is a Founding Trustee of the National Centre for Creative Health. In 2015, she received an MBE for Services to Higher Education and Culture. Helen recently launched the world’s first postgraduate programme in Creative Health - a Masters in Arts and Sciences at UCL. More details can be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/culture-nature-health-research

Cost: Free