'Let me take care of you': how dining and surgery can improve care and illuminate each other's practices

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This proposal explores 'care' as a central yet under-articulated aspect of human experience. It builds on previous work (led by Kneebone and Cotterrell) that generated a fruitful collaboration between academics, clinicians and the Fat Duck Team (a three Michelin starred restaurant). Through the medium of surgical simulation and observations of this high-end restaurant, similarities and differences around how patients and diners are cared for were revealed. This follow-on proposal explores these findings further, by focusing on innovative ways on care and its centrality within human experience. The project widens the focus from providers of care to recipients of care by examining two key sites - hospitals and restaurants. It broadens the focus from the technical (and largely hidden) expertise of the operating theatre and the kitchen to sites where care is experienced directly - the clinic, the hospital ward and the restaurant table. The proposal uses simulation to explore how care in different settings is expressed through embodied interaction between professionals and publics, engaging with new audiences to explore fundamental principles of care across two different but strikingly similar sectors. Six full-day public engagement events in selected UK venues (London (x2), Liverpool, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow) will each engage between 50 and 250 people during an 8-hour day, reaching a total number of at least 300-1500 public participants (not including restaurant and clinical staff). The use of simulation in this context is highly innovative and creative. Traditionally used as a means of training insiders (especially in the medical and surgical context), simulation is seldom used as a means of crossing disciplinary boundaries and establishing creative partnerships (between restaurant and hospital, as in this proposal) around an area of 'correspondence' (i.e. the overarching concept of care rather than the site or manner of its delivery). The primary focus of this proposal is to develop new and anticipated pathways to impact, bringing value to professionals in medicine and restaurants through immersive engagement with diverse publics to generate further insights and discussions and to extend the impact of the initial Research Networking Award