Therapeutic Art - A New Tool for Mental Health Workers in Zambia

Our next meeting is on Thursday 28 November ay 7.30. The speaker will be Simon Willoughby-Booth of Zambia Therapeutic Art addressing the above subject.

The meeting will take place in Room D133, McLean Building, UWS, Paisley.

Guests are welcome with a suggested donation of £3.00.

Zambia Therapeutic Art (ZTA) is a volunteer-led Scottish charity, which aims to improve care for mental health service users by designing, developing and delivering practice based training in the therapeutic use of art to health and social care staff; working to ensure its ongoing sustainability; monitoring and evaluating the continuing practice; and conducting research.



With Zambia acting as the pilot, we aim to produce a sustainable model of training and service delivery which can be directed, owned, and managed locally, and that can be continued successfully with minimal external support.



We are registered with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and our charity number is SC045462. You can find our details on the OSCR website.

Simon Willoughby-Booth, is a trustee of ZTA and also the treasurer. He is a retired Art Therapist, has an MSc by Research, and held senior clinician/manager posts in the NHS in Lothian. He has experience in the public and private sectors and as a charity trustee and has been a ZTA trainer in Zambia since 2017.

Science with impact

Our next meeting is on Thursday 14 November ay 7.30. The speaker will be Brian Quinn of UWS, addressing the above.subject.

 A precis is below

What impact does research have? Or more specifically, as an academic, how do I develop research with impact? How do we define impact? Should this impact be economic, societal or environmental? Does it matter? These questions will be addressed in the Paisley Philosophical Institution lecture by Professor Brian Quinn from the University of the West of Scotland, drawing from 20 years’ experience as an ecotoxicologist working closely with regulators and industry to investigate the impact of novel pollutants on the environment and developing practical techniques to solve current issues.

The meeting will take place in Room  D133, McLean Building, UWS, Paisley .

Guests are welcome with a suggested donation of £3.00.