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How do the gut and brain speak? Nerves continually communicate between gut and brain. They are the ‘crossroads’ of human bodies. But how does this feel?

This arts-science hands-on workshop – led by medical artist Emily Fong and medical humanities researchers Dr Paige Donaghy and Dr Jacinthe Flore – will engage a public audience in imagining how the gut and the brain chatter through nerves, sensations, and emotions.

Through serious play with a range of materials and modalities, the audience will explore embodied moods, experiences, and the mystery of bodies beyond medicalisation, as a community.

18+ participants only.

What to expect:

A three-hour hands-on arts-science workshop using creative play, materials and collaborative body mapping.

This workshop is part of a series, held over two separate dates and please note that the second session is a repeat - follow the below link for information on the other session.

Nerves speak, too: crosstalk in the gut-brain axis - 12 November

Survival analysis deals with an outcome that is the time until a key event, from a suitable starting point. The archetypal context is human life, where death is the event. We are interested in studying the pattern of mortality, and what may influence the death rate. As in any interesting statistical context, there are research questions about the influence of explanatory variables.

The event could be of a different nature, and could even be something desirable, such as “resolution of symptoms”.

This talk will discuss the standard approaches used to analyse such data, which usually have to deal with “censoring” of some sort. This is what makes survival analysis special.

I will also outline a number of quirks and traps for the unwary: aspects of survival data and analysis that need attention. These include estimation of the mean survival, definitions of the time origin, defining groups on the basis of outcomes, composite outcomes, the “immortality bias”, interval censoring, and more.