Fellow’s Profile
Julie Ward
Fellow’s Profile
Julie Ward
A creative approach to drugs education
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Fellowship year
1995
Locality
North East
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Biography
I am currently a freelance arts consultant specialising in arts and health, disability arts, youth participation and arts and sustainability.
My Fellowship aimed to research the use of various art-form practices in drugs education work with children and youth. At the time, my company Jack Drum Arts had been commissioned to create a touring play for primary schools and we could find little existing activity in the field. Our project worked closely with school nurses and was very successful and I wanted to place our work in an international context.
My Fellowship found both inspiring work and very poor examples. I went on to develop broader arts and health programmes and to embed youth arts work in my organisation, recognising that empowering youth was a key to developing personal and social responsibility.
In 2014 I was elected as an MEP for the north-west of England and served on the Committee for Culture and Education, being voted vice-chair. I was a link MEP for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and an MEP Mental Health Ambassador. Subsequent to the UK's withdrawal from the EU I worked for City of Sanctuary UK, managing a Covid-19 emergency response project for refugees and vulnerable people.
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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.