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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing has a membership of academics, creative practitioners and health practitioners across the University of Brighton. We work with our associate members, as well as local, national and international communities, to improve individual, social and environmental wellbeing.
Our work is focused on meaningful impact through an understanding of the practical wisdom that is accessed through the arts. We work inclusively and collaboratively with health and wellbeing partners, investigating priorities of mutual interest and developing new, interdisciplinary and community-oriented research approaches. Our expert arts practices include drawing, design, creative writing and media; our expert health and wellbeing practices include mental health, psychology, resilience, sustainability and medicine.
Research and enterprise in this field has attracted international attention for example: inclusive arts practices backed by the Tate Gallery and introduced across South Asia; drawings on environmental degradation prompting government interventions; community writing and film recognised as a means to social expression and integration in challenged communities.
Our University of Brighton academic and postgraduate student members can be seen on the profile pages.
We also have the following members from Brighton and Sussex Medical School: Professor Jackie Cassell, Dr Chi Eziefula, Dr Claire Smith, Dr Shahaduz Zaman.
Anyone interested in working with us should contact [email protected] and Follow our blog
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Tom Ainsworth
- School of Arch, Tech and Eng - Subject Lead Architecture and Design, Principal Lecturer
- Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
- Experimental Design Practices Research Excellence Group
- Radical Methodologies (RaM) Research Excellence Group
- Centre for Design History
Person: Academic
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Sussex S.E.E. chairs - Social value through nature-net-gain
Gant, N. (PI) & Tooze, J. (CoI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/02/25 → 31/10/25
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Designing Spaces, Making Sustainable Homes: The Design Industry, the Data Gap, and Design Innovation
Rajguru, M. (PI), Ainsworth, T. (CoI) & Sarker, D. (CoI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/10/24 → 30/09/26
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion
Thornton, I., Graber, R., Tip, L. & Fleischer, S., 19 Feb 2025, In: Social Policy and Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Creative Pause: A collaborative, autoethnographic research project exploring how storytelling menopause experiences might support wellbeing
Moriarty, J., Parks, M., Staras, T., Raisborough, J. & Stevenson, F., 30 Jan 2025, In: Writing in Practice. 10, p. 67-82 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Researching rape that is not recognised: An auto/biographical understanding of woman-to-woman rape and sexual assault
Twinley, B., 18 Mar 2025, Handbook of Sensitive Research in the Social Sciences. Liamputtong , P. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 354–370Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review
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Recent Advances in the Delivery of School Mental health
Moriarty, J. (Presenter)
6 Apr 2025Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Domesticity Under Siege conference paper
Atkinson, H. (Presenter) & Breakell, S. (Presenter)
2 Apr 2025 → 4 Apr 2025Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Research and Knowledge Exchange Week 2025 - University of Brighton
Wells, E. (Participant)
25 Mar 2025Activity: Events › Conference
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