Drs Ellen Poliakoff and Emma Gowen have been awarded funding to work with artist, Dr Antony Hall to develop and use art-science experiential workshops to address sensorimotor processing in older adults with autism and Parkinson’s. The project will increase understanding of how movement is affected in both autism and Parkinson’s and under what conditions it may be improved to inform support and future intervention.

The title of the project is “Experience in Action: An art-science collaboration to explore sensorimotor processing in older adults with autism and Parkinson’s” and the team were awarded £5,976 from The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) seed corn fund.

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