Jill Bennett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3583075 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jill Bennett |
| NOMBRES | Jill |
| APELLIDO | Bennett |
| FIRMA | BENNETT J |
| AFILIACIONES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2164-0245 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Teachers’ responses to student bullying
Teachers' roles in preventing and mitigating school bullying have garnered more attention throughout the past decade. However, teacher responses and practices in secondary schools are not understood systematically. This study thus synthesises and discusses 74 identified empirical studies to explore how teachers respond to bullying and what influences their intervention strategies across secondary education contexts. The systematic review methodol…
Foundations of the Alive National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation
The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation was established in 2021. Funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council's Special Initiative in Mental Health, the Centre aims to foster innovation in mental health care. Central to this aim is embedding the voices of those with lived experience into all Centre structures and activities including leadership and co-design of research priorities for mental healt…
Experimenting with arts-based methods and affective provocations to understand complex lived experience of a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder
This article draws on arts-based psycho-social research to explore embodied and visceral knowing and feeling in the context of people living with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It presents a discussion of creative artworks solicited through a nation-wide online survey conducted in Australia in 2021 that generated intimate and affective understanding about living with a diagnosis of BPD. To investigate what lived experiences…
Connecting Us Back to Ourselves
This article examines the experience and effects of a trauma-responsive program that uses creative methods to address the ongoing psychosocial impacts of transgenerational trauma and youth suicide, which disproportionately affect First Nations people in Australia. Our aim is to understand how the aesthetic (sensory-affective) dimensions of such a program serve to promote experiences of growth after trauma, manifesting in a sense of connection to …
Aesthetic Enactment
This article analyses audience responses to two creative works inspired by traumatic loss-the first, a performance presentation, recounting events from the author's adolescence; the second, a short film about a suicide in the filmmaker's family. Both were shown in 2017 as part of a mental health arts festival, attracting audiences with affinity for the lived experiences portrayed. Given the potential for such works to give rise to negative feelin…
Transforming Trauma through an Arts Festival
Through a psychosocial lens, informed by relational psychoanalysis, this article discusses the design, delivery, and impact of The Big Anxiety's 2022 festival in Warwick, Queensland-an arts-based program that engages with lived experiences of trauma, distress, and suicide, and in this case with the devastating impact of youth suicide, disproportionately affecting First Nations communities. It describes the festival's methods of creative engagemen…
Visual communication and mental health
This article conceptualizes the field of ‘visual communication and mental health’, prioritizing the question of how visual imagery is experienced. Taking as its starting point the challenge of overcoming stigma and the limitations of visual clichés of depression and mental illness, the author argues for a dynamic, relational model of communications, foregrounding lived experience. To illuminate the psychosocial impacts and potential benefits of c…
Pre-Engagement as Method
This paper discusses the use of pre-engagement as a method to introduce EmbodiMap, a Virtual Reality (VR) tool to a group of South Sudanese refugees in Sydney, Australia. The aim of the pre-engagment is to understand how currently available support for the mental and emotional wellbeing of the refugee population can be further supported through psychosocial engagements using purposefully developed tools. The EmbodiMap tool and experience, develop…
An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing
"The ability to look at one's face in the mirror and the ability to find one's self in the mirror are two quite different things. The former is a natural capacity that humans share with other animals; the latter is an acquired skill that only humans can master. The craft of mirror-gazing,despite its relevance to daily life is barely understood. An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing provides a metaphysical manual to u…
Women and Stigma
This paper outlines a research and dissemination protocol to be undertaken with specific groups of marginalised women in Australia. Women impacted by significant mental distress, disability, or refugee status are among society's most vulnerable and disenfranchised groups. They can experience significant social exclusion, marginalisation and stigma, associated with reduced help seeking, deprivation of dignity and human rights, and threats to healt…
Edge of the Present
Depression and suicidality are characterized by negative imagery as well as impoverished positive imagery. Although some evidence exists supporting the link between positive imagery and enhanced mood, much work needs to be done. This study explored the impact of an immersive virtual reality experience (Edge of the Present-EOTP) on an individual's mood, state of well-being, and future thinking. Using a 10-min mixed reality experience, 79 individua…
Emergent Knowledge in the Third Space of Art-Science
The locus of encounter between art, science and the public can be conceptualized as third space-a generative site of shared experience. This article reports on a group-based psychosocial method led by imagery and affect-the visual matrix-that enables researchers to capture and characterize knowledge emerging in third space, where disciplinary boundaries are fluid and there is no settled discourse. It presents an account of the visual matrix proce…
Psychosocial aesthetics and the art of lived experience
This article identifies the distinctive nature of arts-based psychosocial enquiry and practice in a public mental health context, focusing on two projects delivered as part of The Big Anxiety festival, in Sydney, Australia in 2017: ‘Awkward Conversations’, in which one-to-one conversations about anxiety and mental health were offered in experimental aesthetic formats; and ‘Parragirls Past, Present’, a reparative project, culminating in an immersi…
The work of the audience
Visual matrix methodology has been designed for researching cultural imaginaries. It is an image-led, group-based method that creates a “third space” research setting to observe audience groups re-enacting lived experience of an event or process that takes place in the third space of a cultural setting. In this article, the method is described through its use in relation to an art-science exhibition, Human+ Future of the species, where three audi…
Thinking in the World
Lived Experience and the Limits (and Possibilities) of Empathy
With increasing pressure to give voice to 'lived experience', the field of mental health needs methods for addressing subjective experience, especially that which is stigmatised or compromised by its labelling. Arts and humanities provide rich techniques for describing the texture and transmission of experience, and for theorising the emotional complexities of 'knowledge exchange'. But do we have a disciplinary configuration up to the practical t…
The ‘BIG Anxiety Project’
Anxiety affects everyone, in some intensity, at some time. We report on the ‘BIG Anxiety Project’, a citizen science arts project to explore the public’s experiences and responses to anxiety, which has established a collaboration between visual artists and mental health researchers. A variety of sources of data were used for analysis: visualization and public discussion as part of the project, including from social media, surveys and live polling…
STEM Stereotypic Attribution Bias Among Women in an Unwelcoming Science Setting
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) stereotypic attribution bias (SSAB) is the tendency to spontaneously generate external attributions for men’s setbacks in STEM fields and to spontaneously make internal attributions for women’s setbacks in STEM fields. Among samples of undergraduate STEM students, STEM settings perceived as unwelcoming to women through self-report (Study 1) and a manipulation (Study 2) were shown to predict SSAB. …
Migratory Aesthetics
This essay examines how “migratory aesthetics” expresses key dynamics in contemporary postcolonial culture and offers an alternative to identity politics. It demonstrates how migratory aesthetics is embodied in key international art exhibitions, from Kassel Documenta to the Contemporary Commonwealth show in Melbourne. Within the terms of identity politics, exhibitions function to represent specific groups, and also to constitute spaces in which d…
Aesthetics of Intermediality
If ‘art thinks’, as Mieke Bal contends, what are the operative concepts it generates, and how do visual culture studies capture the nature of aesthetic or visual thought? This essay analyses contemporary art projects by Gabriel Orozco, Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, and iCinema as both ‘gestural’ and ‘intermedial’ productions. Invoking a concept of gestural criticism derived from Georgio Agamben, Bennett argues that gesture …
Inventing Television Culture
The Oxford Television Studies series has consistently produced books that address matters pertinent to the field of television studies, filling in lacunas and proposing ways forward for those involved in the discipline. With the recent addition of these two publications, the series is beginning to have the feel of an important corpus for television studies, providing any reader with a comprehensive overview of the development of television's form…
Empathic Vision
This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the "affective" quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss. By extending the concept of empathy, it also demonstrates how we might, through art, make connection…
Art, Affect, and the “Bad Death”
Stigmata and Sense Memory
This article analyses a detail of an early fourteenth‐century Umbrian crucifix, depicting a miniature St Francis at the feet of Christ. It reads the discrepancies of scale in the image in relation to both medieval devotional practices and theories of perception, arguing that the detail in late medieval imagery cannot be assimilated to the logic of the whole as it is in perspectivally constructed imagery. Rather, the detail retains a capacity to d…
STEM Stereotypic Attribution Bias Among Women in an Unwelcoming Science Setting
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) stereotypic attribution bias (SSAB) is the tendency to spontaneously generate external attributions for men’s setbacks in STEM fields and to spontaneously make internal attributions for women’s setbacks in STEM fields. Among samples of undergraduate STEM students, STEM settings perceived as unwelcoming to women through self-report (Study 1) and a manipulation (Study 2) were shown to predict SSAB. …
Psychosocial aesthetics and the art of lived experience
This article identifies the distinctive nature of arts-based psychosocial enquiry and practice in a public mental health context, focusing on two projects delivered as part of The Big Anxiety festival, in Sydney, Australia in 2017: ‘Awkward Conversations’, in which one-to-one conversations about anxiety and mental health were offered in experimental aesthetic formats; and ‘Parragirls Past, Present’, a reparative project, culminating in an immersi…
Transforming Trauma through an Arts Festival
Through a psychosocial lens, informed by relational psychoanalysis, this article discusses the design, delivery, and impact of The Big Anxiety's 2022 festival in Warwick, Queensland-an arts-based program that engages with lived experiences of trauma, distress, and suicide, and in this case with the devastating impact of youth suicide, disproportionately affecting First Nations communities. It describes the festival's methods of creative engagemen…
Pre-Engagement as Method
This paper discusses the use of pre-engagement as a method to introduce EmbodiMap, a Virtual Reality (VR) tool to a group of South Sudanese refugees in Sydney, Australia. The aim of the pre-engagment is to understand how currently available support for the mental and emotional wellbeing of the refugee population can be further supported through psychosocial engagements using purposefully developed tools. The EmbodiMap tool and experience, develop…
The work of the audience
Visual matrix methodology has been designed for researching cultural imaginaries. It is an image-led, group-based method that creates a “third space” research setting to observe audience groups re-enacting lived experience of an event or process that takes place in the third space of a cultural setting. In this article, the method is described through its use in relation to an art-science exhibition, Human+ Future of the species, where three audi…
Experimenting with arts-based methods and affective provocations to understand complex lived experience of a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder
This article draws on arts-based psycho-social research to explore embodied and visceral knowing and feeling in the context of people living with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It presents a discussion of creative artworks solicited through a nation-wide online survey conducted in Australia in 2021 that generated intimate and affective understanding about living with a diagnosis of BPD. To investigate what lived experiences…
Stigmata and Sense Memory
This article analyses a detail of an early fourteenth‐century Umbrian crucifix, depicting a miniature St Francis at the feet of Christ. It reads the discrepancies of scale in the image in relation to both medieval devotional practices and theories of perception, arguing that the detail in late medieval imagery cannot be assimilated to the logic of the whole as it is in perspectivally constructed imagery. Rather, the detail retains a capacity to d…
Aesthetic Enactment
This article analyses audience responses to two creative works inspired by traumatic loss-the first, a performance presentation, recounting events from the author's adolescence; the second, a short film about a suicide in the filmmaker's family. Both were shown in 2017 as part of a mental health arts festival, attracting audiences with affinity for the lived experiences portrayed. Given the potential for such works to give rise to negative feelin…
Visual communication and mental health
This article conceptualizes the field of ‘visual communication and mental health’, prioritizing the question of how visual imagery is experienced. Taking as its starting point the challenge of overcoming stigma and the limitations of visual clichés of depression and mental illness, the author argues for a dynamic, relational model of communications, foregrounding lived experience. To illuminate the psychosocial impacts and potential benefits of c…
Emergent Knowledge in the Third Space of Art-Science
The locus of encounter between art, science and the public can be conceptualized as third space-a generative site of shared experience. This article reports on a group-based psychosocial method led by imagery and affect-the visual matrix-that enables researchers to capture and characterize knowledge emerging in third space, where disciplinary boundaries are fluid and there is no settled discourse. It presents an account of the visual matrix proce…
Stigmata and Sense Memory
This article analyses a detail of an early fourteenth‐century Umbrian crucifix, depicting a miniature St Francis at the feet of Christ. It reads the discrepancies of scale in the image in relation to both medieval devotional practices and theories of perception, arguing that the detail in late medieval imagery cannot be assimilated to the logic of the whole as it is in perspectivally constructed imagery. Rather, the detail retains a capacity to d…
Art, Affect, and the “Bad Death”
Empathic Vision
This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the "affective" quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss. By extending the concept of empathy, it also demonstrates how we might, through art, make connection…
Inventing Television Culture
The Oxford Television Studies series has consistently produced books that address matters pertinent to the field of television studies, filling in lacunas and proposing ways forward for those involved in the discipline. With the recent addition of these two publications, the series is beginning to have the feel of an important corpus for television studies, providing any reader with a comprehensive overview of the development of television's form…
Aesthetics of Intermediality
If ‘art thinks’, as Mieke Bal contends, what are the operative concepts it generates, and how do visual culture studies capture the nature of aesthetic or visual thought? This essay analyses contemporary art projects by Gabriel Orozco, Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, and iCinema as both ‘gestural’ and ‘intermedial’ productions. Invoking a concept of gestural criticism derived from Georgio Agamben, Bennett argues that gesture …
Migratory Aesthetics
This essay examines how “migratory aesthetics” expresses key dynamics in contemporary postcolonial culture and offers an alternative to identity politics. It demonstrates how migratory aesthetics is embodied in key international art exhibitions, from Kassel Documenta to the Contemporary Commonwealth show in Melbourne. Within the terms of identity politics, exhibitions function to represent specific groups, and also to constitute spaces in which d…
STEM Stereotypic Attribution Bias Among Women in an Unwelcoming Science Setting
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) stereotypic attribution bias (SSAB) is the tendency to spontaneously generate external attributions for men’s setbacks in STEM fields and to spontaneously make internal attributions for women’s setbacks in STEM fields. Among samples of undergraduate STEM students, STEM settings perceived as unwelcoming to women through self-report (Study 1) and a manipulation (Study 2) were shown to predict SSAB. …
The ‘BIG Anxiety Project’
Anxiety affects everyone, in some intensity, at some time. We report on the ‘BIG Anxiety Project’, a citizen science arts project to explore the public’s experiences and responses to anxiety, which has established a collaboration between visual artists and mental health researchers. A variety of sources of data were used for analysis: visualization and public discussion as part of the project, including from social media, surveys and live polling…
Psychosocial aesthetics and the art of lived experience
This article identifies the distinctive nature of arts-based psychosocial enquiry and practice in a public mental health context, focusing on two projects delivered as part of The Big Anxiety festival, in Sydney, Australia in 2017: ‘Awkward Conversations’, in which one-to-one conversations about anxiety and mental health were offered in experimental aesthetic formats; and ‘Parragirls Past, Present’, a reparative project, culminating in an immersi…
The work of the audience
Visual matrix methodology has been designed for researching cultural imaginaries. It is an image-led, group-based method that creates a “third space” research setting to observe audience groups re-enacting lived experience of an event or process that takes place in the third space of a cultural setting. In this article, the method is described through its use in relation to an art-science exhibition, Human+ Future of the species, where three audi…
Thinking in the World
Lived Experience and the Limits (and Possibilities) of Empathy
With increasing pressure to give voice to 'lived experience', the field of mental health needs methods for addressing subjective experience, especially that which is stigmatised or compromised by its labelling. Arts and humanities provide rich techniques for describing the texture and transmission of experience, and for theorising the emotional complexities of 'knowledge exchange'. But do we have a disciplinary configuration up to the practical t…
Women and Stigma
This paper outlines a research and dissemination protocol to be undertaken with specific groups of marginalised women in Australia. Women impacted by significant mental distress, disability, or refugee status are among society's most vulnerable and disenfranchised groups. They can experience significant social exclusion, marginalisation and stigma, associated with reduced help seeking, deprivation of dignity and human rights, and threats to healt…
Edge of the Present
Depression and suicidality are characterized by negative imagery as well as impoverished positive imagery. Although some evidence exists supporting the link between positive imagery and enhanced mood, much work needs to be done. This study explored the impact of an immersive virtual reality experience (Edge of the Present-EOTP) on an individual's mood, state of well-being, and future thinking. Using a 10-min mixed reality experience, 79 individua…
Emergent Knowledge in the Third Space of Art-Science
The locus of encounter between art, science and the public can be conceptualized as third space-a generative site of shared experience. This article reports on a group-based psychosocial method led by imagery and affect-the visual matrix-that enables researchers to capture and characterize knowledge emerging in third space, where disciplinary boundaries are fluid and there is no settled discourse. It presents an account of the visual matrix proce…
An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing
"The ability to look at one's face in the mirror and the ability to find one's self in the mirror are two quite different things. The former is a natural capacity that humans share with other animals; the latter is an acquired skill that only humans can master. The craft of mirror-gazing,despite its relevance to daily life is barely understood. An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing provides a metaphysical manual to u…
Visual communication and mental health
This article conceptualizes the field of ‘visual communication and mental health’, prioritizing the question of how visual imagery is experienced. Taking as its starting point the challenge of overcoming stigma and the limitations of visual clichés of depression and mental illness, the author argues for a dynamic, relational model of communications, foregrounding lived experience. To illuminate the psychosocial impacts and potential benefits of c…
Pre-Engagement as Method
This paper discusses the use of pre-engagement as a method to introduce EmbodiMap, a Virtual Reality (VR) tool to a group of South Sudanese refugees in Sydney, Australia. The aim of the pre-engagment is to understand how currently available support for the mental and emotional wellbeing of the refugee population can be further supported through psychosocial engagements using purposefully developed tools. The EmbodiMap tool and experience, develop…
Connecting Us Back to Ourselves
This article examines the experience and effects of a trauma-responsive program that uses creative methods to address the ongoing psychosocial impacts of transgenerational trauma and youth suicide, which disproportionately affect First Nations people in Australia. Our aim is to understand how the aesthetic (sensory-affective) dimensions of such a program serve to promote experiences of growth after trauma, manifesting in a sense of connection to …
Aesthetic Enactment
This article analyses audience responses to two creative works inspired by traumatic loss-the first, a performance presentation, recounting events from the author's adolescence; the second, a short film about a suicide in the filmmaker's family. Both were shown in 2017 as part of a mental health arts festival, attracting audiences with affinity for the lived experiences portrayed. Given the potential for such works to give rise to negative feelin…
Transforming Trauma through an Arts Festival
Through a psychosocial lens, informed by relational psychoanalysis, this article discusses the design, delivery, and impact of The Big Anxiety's 2022 festival in Warwick, Queensland-an arts-based program that engages with lived experiences of trauma, distress, and suicide, and in this case with the devastating impact of youth suicide, disproportionately affecting First Nations communities. It describes the festival's methods of creative engagemen…
Experimenting with arts-based methods and affective provocations to understand complex lived experience of a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder
This article draws on arts-based psycho-social research to explore embodied and visceral knowing and feeling in the context of people living with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It presents a discussion of creative artworks solicited through a nation-wide online survey conducted in Australia in 2021 that generated intimate and affective understanding about living with a diagnosis of BPD. To investigate what lived experiences…
Foundations of the Alive National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation
The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation was established in 2021. Funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council's Special Initiative in Mental Health, the Centre aims to foster innovation in mental health care. Central to this aim is embedding the voices of those with lived experience into all Centre structures and activities including leadership and co-design of research priorities for mental healt…
Teachers’ responses to student bullying
Teachers' roles in preventing and mitigating school bullying have garnered more attention throughout the past decade. However, teacher responses and practices in secondary schools are not understood systematically. This study thus synthesises and discusses 74 identified empirical studies to explore how teachers respond to bullying and what influences their intervention strategies across secondary education contexts. The systematic review methodol…
Psychology (17 obras) · Art (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Aesthetics (10 obras) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (9 obras) · Psychotherapist (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Visual arts (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras)