HEART (Healing Education Animation Research Therapy) Up For Enterprise Award
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HEART (Healing Education Animation Research Therapy) has been nominated for an Enterprise Award. It is won by the number of votes and this is the first time that Animation Therapy has been nominated for the Enterprise Award. All you have to do is click the link below and select and vote HEART if you wish to show your support.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/enterprise/enterprise-awards/social-cultural/heart/
Without a platform for expression, vulnerable, marginalised and excluded groups face prejudice and even abuse. Ethnic minorities, the bereaved, victims and perpetrators of abuse are at risk of further isolation from the wider community.
HEART™ brings together award-winning practitioners, researchers and students to address this challenge. It uses the process and outcome of animation as a diagnostic, educational, crime prevention and dissemination tool locally, nationally and internationally.
Melanie Hani has been investigating the effectiveness of the animation process for health, education, social care, probationary services and the voluntary sector for many years. In 2011, she launched the Good Hearts Model (GHM) to develop the distinctive role of animation to offer possible solutions to contemporary worldwide community issues.
The GHM concludes with an exhibition of participants’ work so that the issues can engage and enlighten the wider community, tackling subjects that are often perceived as taboo. The model has had widespread success with groups ranging from first generation immigrant children in the UK, all ages coping with bereavement, and high-risk child sex offenders. Please show support by voting
Complimenting the work at HEART, new developments are underway to further the social impacts of HEART™ and the GHM. Loughborough’s Animation Academy hopes to launch a postgraduate programme in Animation Therapy and a mini doctoral training centre in Animation at Loughborough University in London. We are pleased to announce a fully funded PhD studentship. The studentship will be paid for a period of up to three years, and provide a tax-free stipend of £14,057*. The School offers this exciting interdisciplinary research environment and welcomes the submission of high-quality proposals that have the potential to make a substantive contribution to Animation and Public Engagement enhancing the work of HEART and the Animation Academy.
Impacts
- Melanie’s work with bereaved or special needs children has been celebrated by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace for making a ‘significant contribution to local and national life’.
Melanie has won the NHS Innovation Award, and a commendation by the Duke of Gloucester for her work with the bereaved. - Baroness Morris of Yardley has commended Melanie’s work to help children excluded from mainstream education.
- She has also been awarded a Community Fellowship Award and has been named in the Marquis Who’s who in the world for ‘recognising the global impact of her work’.
- The underpinning research has been funded and supported by a variety of private and public sector organisations including Big Lottery Fund, the NHS, Lily Matthews Fund and Northern Rock. HEART was founded by Melanie Hani at the University of Sunderland in 2010.
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To show your support for this project and to see the other entries in the competition visit the website here