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This collection brings together 25 academics who reveal how engaging with creative processes can serve as powerful tools for self-care and professional flourishing. It would appeal to academics across all disciplines, researchers in educational wellbeing, and practitioners in arts and health fields.
List of contents
Section 1: Foundations: Creative Practice as Wellbeing in Academia
1. A call for change: Creative and making practices as essential practices to support wellbeing and the transformative potential of education. Narelle Lemon, Sharon McDonough, and Mark Selkrig
2. Reviving the Creative Academic: Integrating the Creative Being and Values Flow Models to Promote Wellbeing in Higher Education Cedomir Ignjatovic, Katie Beresford, and Margaret L. Kern
3. Intersecting Identities and the Pracademic Paradigm Cheri Flewell-Smith
4. Comic-making as Wellbeing: Supporting International Students during Professional Experience Fiona Boylan and Karen Nociti Section 2: Embodied Knowledge: Sensory and Physical Dimensions of Making
5. Thinking Through the Ground: Art, Ecology, and Relational Wellbeing Cassandra Tytler
6. Exploring Experiences and Impacts of Creative Arts Therapies Catherine Oxworth
7. Embodied Connections Conversation Series: Women's Conversations in Landscape and Climate through Collaborative Nature-based Photographic Practices Alyson Agar
8. From Family Legacy to Care: An Autoethnographic Journey of Music and Memory Simone Marino Section 3: Relational Making: Collaborative and Community Approaches
9. Ex:Change - Validating Conversations about Waste and Sustainability through Craft Joanna Rucklidge and Wendy Ward
10. New Ways of Workshopping: Research-based Theatre and Collaborative Creativity for Wellbeing Richard Sallis, Chris Summers, and Prue Wales
11. Filmmaking 'With' as a Creative Process that Uses Relational Ideas of Care Catherine Gough-Brady
12. Providing a Voice: Using Creative Ethnographic Collaborative Methodologies to Explore and Represent Cultural Heritage in the Commonplace. Maxine Beuret Section 4: Identity and Transformation: Navigating Academic Life Through Making
13. Moving through Liminal Space: Visual Journaling as a Creative Ritual and Spiritual Practice Christopher M. Strickland and Jane E. Dalton
14. Creativity Under Constraint: The Academic Struggle and the Need for Systemic Reform Bronte van der Hoorn
15. Loki's Tail Karen Kenny
16. Navigating Academia with a Design Mindset: A Project of Ambiguity, Prototyping, and Failures Linus Tan
About the author
Narelle Lemon is a Vice Chancellor Professorial Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University, Australia, Lead of the Wellbeing and Education Research Community, and is an interdisciplinary scholar across arts, education, and positive psychology. She is the Director of Explore & Create Co.
Sharon McDonough is an Associate Professor in Teacher Education in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University, Australia. Sharon's research focus draws on socio-cultural theories of wellbeing and resilience to explore professional development for educators, initial teacher education, and how to support and advance wellbeing across a range of contexts.
Mark Selkrig is currently based at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research and scholarly work focus on the changing nature of educators' work, their identities, lived experiences, and how educators navigate the ecologies of their respective learning environments. He engages with digital and arts-informed methods in these research domains to probe the uneasy tensions and intersections that influence change, capacity building, and agency of individuals and communities.
