Arts-Health Lab
The Arts-Health lab is a network of creative innovators at Griffith University. We use diverse knowledges and practices to promote self-determination in ourselves and surrounding communities to be healthy, well, and healed, while building creative knowledges, practices, and skills across disciplines and spaces. Our vision is to explore what the arts and creativity can do and be in our different roles, professions, and practices. We critically examine the limits of arts and creativity in health, wellbeing, and healing systems by honouring and extending diverse ways of knowing, being, and doing through practice-led and expansive mixed methods research.
Our Members
- Naomi Sunderland
- Michelle Vine
- Emma Heard
- Steven Baker
- Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
- Catherine Grant
- Natalie Lazaroo
- Vanessa Tomlinson
- Paul Harris
- Carol McGregor
- Linda Hassall
- Ana Paula Estrada
- Kristy Apps
- Tanya jones
- Reece Hinchcliff
- Diti Bhattacharya
- Joel Spence
- Marianne Wobcke
- Alexandra Gorton
- Rebecca Yarnold
- Glenn Barry
- Katrina Archbald
- Lauren Terzis
- Vanette McLennan
- John Headrick
- Kalyn McDonough
- Kelly Clanchy
- Xanthe Golenko
- Sandra Bulger
- Kathryn Seaton
- Nick Rowe
- Petrea Cornwell
- Amanda Smith
- Adele Pavlidis
Contributing Disciplines
- Animation and Games Design
- Applied Psychology
- Biomechanics
- Community Music
- Culturally Informed Trauma Integrated Practice
- Design and Visual Art
- Disability Studies
- Environmental Science
- Exercise Science
- Filmmaking
- First Nations Social Justice
- Gender Studies
- Health Promotion
- Human Services
- Humanities
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Music Education
- Performing Arts (Drama, Theatre, Music Performance)
- Public Health
- Rehabilitation Science
- Social Work
- Sport Development
Our Areas of Research
- Aged care service delivery
- All ages health promotion
- Wellbeing and healing
- Children and adolescents
- Communication disability
- Dementia and palliative care
- Disability and rehabilitation
- Disability inclusion
- First Nations wellbeing
- Health Services Management
- Health systems
- Institutional change
- Social and emotional wellbeing
- Neurological disorders
- Outdoor health
- Reducing muscle tension
- Reducing general anxiety
Contact us
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Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Country on which we live and work. We recognise their continuing connection to place and culture, and pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.