You and yours: a series of workshops designed to help you understand the science of how your body works. (360G-Wellcome-079997_Z_06_Z)

"You and Yours" A series of workshops designed to help you understand the science of how your body works The University of Leeds plays an important role in the City of Leeds, its life and culture. Ask members of the public about the University and they will talk readily about our students and the buildings. What frequently remains invisible is the range of scholarly activities that takes place within them and the relevance of these to the day to day lives of the people we seek to serve. "You and Yours" will be a series of six events held on the University campus. Each event will focus on a particular aspect of the body, e.g. "You and Your Heart", and present the latest thinking, research and health approaches being be used, with the aim of demystifying medicine. It is intended that each event will be highly interactive and where possible use a range of media (including drama). All events will have presentations from clinicians, researchers and expert patients. If appropriate, the patient's journey through the health system will be used as a vehicle for illuminating the multitude of ways in which the University (and science) contributes to positive health outcomes in the local community. The University, as part of its commitment to knowledge transfer, has a range of community based activities, e.g., links to schools and local colleges of further education, to support health throughout the curriculum, and we would seek to promote these events specifically to the groups as part of adding value to these partnerships. We are also actively exploring with local media a campaign to run in conjunction with the proposed events to raise public awareness about the topics that we will be covering. As part of our commitment actively to engage patient voices into the work of the University, we would use our existing networks of expert patients and patient teachers to ensure a strong user involvement in the design of all the events.