HEALTH AND WELLBEING: Knit your way to a pill-free prescription<\/p>\n
Is crochet just what the doctor ordered? Doctoral candidate Alison Mayne<\/a>\u00a0is a Scotland-based amateur maker in knit and crochet,\u00a0studying in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC<\/a>) at Sheffield Hallam University. Alison recently spoke to BBC Radio Scotland about social prescribing and the role knitting can play as part of a holistic approach towards improving health and wellbeing. Alison\u2019s research focuses on women\u2019s crafting\u00a0experiences and perceptions of well-being shared through social media and is diverted by what may be learnt through remaking historical dress.<\/p>\n Hear the full show here<\/a>, with Alison on from around 49 minutes.<\/p>\n Alison works as an Associate Lecturer in\u00a0Fashion Theory at Sheffield Hallam University<\/a> and as tutor in Design and Screen Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. Her\u00a0supervisory team are:\u00a0Professor Alison Adam<\/a>\u00a0(Director of Studies)\u00a0Dr Eve Stirling<\/a>\u00a0(Supervisor) at Sheffield Hallam and\u00a0Dr Alison Gwilt<\/a>\u00a0(Adviser) University of South Australia.<\/p>\n Alison blogs at\u00a0Newbie Researcher<\/a>\u00a0and you\u00a0can find Alison on Twitter\u00a0@newbiephd<\/a>. Read Alison’s C3RI Impact Blog post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HEALTH AND WELLBEING: Knit your way to a pill-free prescription Is crochet just what the doctor ordered? Doctoral candidate Alison Mayne\u00a0is a Scotland-based amateur maker in knit and crochet,\u00a0studying in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC) at Sheffield Hallam University. Alison recently spoke to BBC Radio Scotland about social prescribing and the role knitting can play as part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":5034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[183,139],"tags":[5,617,133,788,200,607,787,185,331,789],"class_list":["post-5033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doctoral-research","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-alison-mayne","tag-craft","tag-crochet","tag-fashion-research","tag-healthcare-research","tag-knitting","tag-phd-students","tag-practice-led-phd","tag-wellbeing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/06\/MAYNE-2018-06-BBC-Radio-Scotland.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-1jb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5146,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/researcher-blog-phd-candidate-alison-mayne\/","url_meta":{"origin":5033,"position":0},"title":"Researcher Blog by PhD Candidate Alison Mayne: The Spiritual and Social Benefits of Knitting","author":"LAURA BURDEN","date":"17\/07\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"About the author Alison Mayne is a doctoral candidate in\u00a0the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC) and a Scotland-based amateur maker in knitting and crochet. 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