Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 327603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecka |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleetwood-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | FLEETWOOD-SMITH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0098-579X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making and re-making the hospital
Paediatric hospital settings are complex environments catering for children and young people, from birth up until early adulthood. Research that focuses on these settings often involves concentrating on specific design elements and features rather than considering the sensory, embodied, and atmospheric qualities of these environments. This project aims to explore the past, present, and future of the NHS hospital focusing on the sensory environmen…
Lively and Unstable Implosions
This article is a collaborative piece, written between a group of geographers and artists. Together, we explore an “ad-hoc archive” of extraordinary and everyday objects associated with reproduction, broadly conceived. Some objects are directly or indirectly aimed at enhancing reproductive health or well-being, others at arresting or enhancing fertility, others still at expanding notions of reproduction beyond the genetic or biological. Objects a…
Making memories
This article explores the value of creative methods for historians, with a particular focus on how such methods may complement interviews and oral histories. It draws out the values of different creative methods – freewriting, close looking, collage, line-drawing, and mapping – in facilitating conversations about the sensory, embodied, and emotional aspects of the past. It also offers, more specifically, a case study of the sensory history of hos…
Making and exhibiting
Senses and spaces of modern health/care
Creative forms
This article details the creation of a series of booklets designed to explore sensory encounters with hospitals and healthcare environments. The booklets were devised as a series of prompts or provocations, created to attend to and examine embodied, sensory encounters with health/care settings rather than to present research findings. Bringing together an expansive range of backgrounds and skill sets the booklets were created to sit within and be…
Embracing Complexity Within Creative Approaches to Dementia Research
In this paper, we present reflections from three research studies that have engaged with creative approaches to qualitative research with people living with dementia. Creative approaches to qualitative research are increasingly advocated within dementia research as they foreground alternative routes to expression and can facilitate flexible, meaningful participation. Such approaches are typically cited as illuminating people's lived experiences a…
Listening through Lines
This article explores sound in the hospital environment, using the drawing of lines to understand sound as process and agent in spaces of wellbeing. It builds on and extends the work of Tim Ingold on lines and sounds, exploring lines/sound in relation to the specific context of healthcare spaces. The article presents the methodology, process, and interpretation of lines from a workshop called ‘Listening to the Hospital’ as part of the research pr…
Rethinking creative research methods in response to Covid-19
The ‘Sensing Spaces of Healthcare: Rethinking the NHS Hospital’ project involves working with National Health Service (NHS) staff, patients and visitors to explore their experiences of hospital environments. Over the course of the project, creative approaches centred on art-based and design-led practices are employed to research people’s experiences. Such approaches often involve working closely with participants during sessions. As COVID-19 infe…
Using creative, sensory and embodied research methods when working with people with dementia
Creative, sensory and embodied approaches enabled people with dementia to engage with research, supporting imaginative, spontaneous and flexible participation. This supports the use of novel methods when undertaking research with people who have dementia
‘It’s like… it’s me’
Clothing and its intimate proximity to the body and self have been widely explored, and yet there is little psychological research that explores the experience of wearing items of clothing imbued with personal meanings, memories and emotions. This novel study explores the experience of actively worn items of attachment clothing from a psychological perspective. Method: due to a dearth of literature within this area, a qualitative methodology was …
Using creative, sensory and embodied research methods when working with people with dementia
Creative, sensory and embodied approaches enabled people with dementia to engage with research, supporting imaginative, spontaneous and flexible participation. This supports the use of novel methods when undertaking research with people who have dementia
Making memories
This article explores the value of creative methods for historians, with a particular focus on how such methods may complement interviews and oral histories. It draws out the values of different creative methods – freewriting, close looking, collage, line-drawing, and mapping – in facilitating conversations about the sensory, embodied, and emotional aspects of the past. It also offers, more specifically, a case study of the sensory history of hos…
Creative forms
This article details the creation of a series of booklets designed to explore sensory encounters with hospitals and healthcare environments. The booklets were devised as a series of prompts or provocations, created to attend to and examine embodied, sensory encounters with health/care settings rather than to present research findings. Bringing together an expansive range of backgrounds and skill sets the booklets were created to sit within and be…
Embracing Complexity Within Creative Approaches to Dementia Research
In this paper, we present reflections from three research studies that have engaged with creative approaches to qualitative research with people living with dementia. Creative approaches to qualitative research are increasingly advocated within dementia research as they foreground alternative routes to expression and can facilitate flexible, meaningful participation. Such approaches are typically cited as illuminating people's lived experiences a…
‘It’s like… it’s me’
Clothing and its intimate proximity to the body and self have been widely explored, and yet there is little psychological research that explores the experience of wearing items of clothing imbued with personal meanings, memories and emotions. This novel study explores the experience of actively worn items of attachment clothing from a psychological perspective. Method: due to a dearth of literature within this area, a qualitative methodology was …
Rethinking creative research methods in response to Covid-19
The ‘Sensing Spaces of Healthcare: Rethinking the NHS Hospital’ project involves working with National Health Service (NHS) staff, patients and visitors to explore their experiences of hospital environments. Over the course of the project, creative approaches centred on art-based and design-led practices are employed to research people’s experiences. Such approaches often involve working closely with participants during sessions. As COVID-19 infe…
Using creative, sensory and embodied research methods when working with people with dementia
Creative, sensory and embodied approaches enabled people with dementia to engage with research, supporting imaginative, spontaneous and flexible participation. This supports the use of novel methods when undertaking research with people who have dementia
Listening through Lines
This article explores sound in the hospital environment, using the drawing of lines to understand sound as process and agent in spaces of wellbeing. It builds on and extends the work of Tim Ingold on lines and sounds, exploring lines/sound in relation to the specific context of healthcare spaces. The article presents the methodology, process, and interpretation of lines from a workshop called ‘Listening to the Hospital’ as part of the research pr…
Creative forms
This article details the creation of a series of booklets designed to explore sensory encounters with hospitals and healthcare environments. The booklets were devised as a series of prompts or provocations, created to attend to and examine embodied, sensory encounters with health/care settings rather than to present research findings. Bringing together an expansive range of backgrounds and skill sets the booklets were created to sit within and be…
Embracing Complexity Within Creative Approaches to Dementia Research
In this paper, we present reflections from three research studies that have engaged with creative approaches to qualitative research with people living with dementia. Creative approaches to qualitative research are increasingly advocated within dementia research as they foreground alternative routes to expression and can facilitate flexible, meaningful participation. Such approaches are typically cited as illuminating people's lived experiences a…
Making and exhibiting
Senses and spaces of modern health/care
Making memories
This article explores the value of creative methods for historians, with a particular focus on how such methods may complement interviews and oral histories. It draws out the values of different creative methods – freewriting, close looking, collage, line-drawing, and mapping – in facilitating conversations about the sensory, embodied, and emotional aspects of the past. It also offers, more specifically, a case study of the sensory history of hos…
Making and re-making the hospital
Paediatric hospital settings are complex environments catering for children and young people, from birth up until early adulthood. Research that focuses on these settings often involves concentrating on specific design elements and features rather than considering the sensory, embodied, and atmospheric qualities of these environments. This project aims to explore the past, present, and future of the NHS hospital focusing on the sensory environmen…
Lively and Unstable Implosions
This article is a collaborative piece, written between a group of geographers and artists. Together, we explore an “ad-hoc archive” of extraordinary and everyday objects associated with reproduction, broadly conceived. Some objects are directly or indirectly aimed at enhancing reproductive health or well-being, others at arresting or enhancing fertility, others still at expanding notions of reproduction beyond the genetic or biological. Objects a…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Embodied cognition (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)