{"id":2001,"date":"2026-04-02T09:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/patchworkedcare\/?page_id=2001"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:09:23","slug":"exploring-experiences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/patchworkedcare\/exploring-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2001\" class=\"elementor elementor-2001\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-169d22d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"169d22d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efcd869 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"efcd869\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eda21ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"eda21ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Patchworked Care<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a409c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2a409c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Exploring experiences of care proceedings for mothers who use substances and the professionals who support them<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4dd9182 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4dd9182\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f240581 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f240581\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b7049a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4b7049a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Exploring Experiences<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d690d51 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d690d51\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Patchworked Care <\/em>is the first project in our wider programme of work around women&#8217;s recovery, care proceedings, and motherhood. This project engages design-led feminist action research to explore experiences of care proceedings for mothers using substances, and to facilitate dialogue across lived experience and professional practice. <em>Patchworked Care<\/em> develops through four main phases:<\/p><p><strong>Voices of lived experience: <\/strong>In the first phase, we explore the intersections of care proceedings and addiction\/recovery through the voices of women who have lived through these experiences. This includes a series of creative focus groups with mothers in various community venues. It also includes an extended programme of workshops with residents of a specialist accommodation project that supports mothers struggling with addiction and at risk of, or involved with, children\u2019s services intervention.<\/p><p><strong>Making: <\/strong>In the second phase, we engage design-led methods to create interactive textiles pieces. One piece maps women\u2019s experiences across different stages of the care proceedings process and the second presents lessons learnt from the residents in specialist accommodation project.\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Voices of practitioners: <\/strong>In the third phase, we facilitate a series of workshops with social work professionals, students in social work and allied professions, support staff from women\u2019s services, and recovery workers. Using our interactive textiles map, we engage professionals in dialogue around women\u2019s experiences to build shared understanding and explore how services can better meet the needs of mothers who use substances.<\/p><p><strong>Dialogues:\u00a0<\/strong>We bring together the voices of lived experience and the voiecs of practitioners in an interactive installation. This installation is made up of a collection of scripts that were produced from transcripts of our previous workshops. These were read by actors and embedded into an installation that invites two people to listen to the audio clips and then engage in conversation about what they have heard.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the end, we bring together made objects, images and text-based outputs from the project in a public exhibition and project report.<\/p><p>The project was carried out by Dr Faye Green and Dr Angelika Strohmayer, with support from Ridley Villas. It was funded by Newcastle City Council, with support form Will McGovern.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-521a3ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"521a3ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/patchworkedcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_9450-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-733\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/patchworkedcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_9450-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/patchworkedcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_9450-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/patchworkedcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_9450-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/patchworkedcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_9450-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/patchworkedcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_9450-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb05bea elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cb05bea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">With thanks<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11f912f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11f912f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This work was made possibly by funding from Newcastle City Council&#8217;s Public Health portfolio. 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