Image © Nir Segal
‘Measuring Wellbeing Creatively’ is funded through a Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Grand Challenges: Human Wellbeing Award. The project will work with participants who have acquired communication difficulties (as a result of a brain injury or stroke) to explore how different colours and sensations can help to express feelings and emotions. ÌýThrough a series of workshops, the project will co-develop a visual toolkit for expressing emotions. The project seeks to provide original research on creative and accessible methodologies for measuring wellbeing.
Research Activities
1. Three co-production workshops with adults with acquired communication difficulties (January, February and March 2017)
2. Design of the creative nonverbal toolkit based on colour and co-designed by participants.
3. Cross-disciplinary symposium at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø to present research (July 2017). This will include participants, researchers across faculties and professionals with an interest in wellbeing-related research.
4. Display of the co-production process at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøH.
Research Team:
Dr Nuala Morse is the project’s Principal Investigator and is an Honorary Researcher at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Culture. She is also the Postdoctoral Research Associate for Not So Grim Up North
is the project’s Co-Investigator and is the Deputy Director (Project) and Part-Time Senior Lecturer in Painting at the .
Nir Segal is the project’s artist-researcher and a PhD Candidate at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Dr Michael Dean is on the project team and is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Department of Language and Cognition
Research Collaborators:
Prof Helen Chatterjee, Professor in Biology Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Biosciences, and Head of Research and Teaching for Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Culture.
Dr Linda Thomson is the project’s Senior Research Associate and Cognitive Psychologist at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø.
External Collaborators
Professor Martin Marshall, Professor of Healthcare Improvement, Department of
Applied Health Research, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø and GP, Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing
Centre
Mr Guy Noble, Arts Curator, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøH Arts and Heritage
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