Shaun Mcniff
Biographic Data
| ID | 3458168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Mcniff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcniff |
| SIGNATURE | MCNIFF S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lesley University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2728-1941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecology of creation
Ecology is approached as a way of understanding the interplay of inner and environmental forces that generate artistic expressions within a natural world that includes humans and their creations. The ecological viewpoint and its emphasis on reciprocal relations with all things emerged from easel painting experiences with young children who innately integrated movement, enactment, sound and imaginative stories and has been affirmed with adults in …
An integral community of art and healing
While respecting various artistic disciplines, there is a complementary need to understand what they share within an inclusive community of art and healing. The use of artistic expression in therapy and research reflects the departmental structures and interests of academic and professional institutions that separate and classify art forms according to organizational priorities, often attributing the shared concept of art exclusively to the visua…
Natural experiments
Natural experiments are examinations of spontaneous and often transformative acts of nature, including artistic expression. The empirical research produces generalizable outcomes as documented during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. This article discusses how the unplanned nature of natural experiments is contrary to the pervasive practice of research in higher education, including the author’s personal experience as a research advisor. It is sug…
‘Companioning’ in artistic inquiry
This article explores the unique features of Warren Lett’s practice of companioning and its significance within the international community of artistic inquiry. Emphasis is given to the role of personal process as research content and its inseparable relationship to reality. The author’s experiences with this aspect of research are compared to Lett’s work. The article also explores the parallel developments of integrated arts therapy in the Unite…
Introduction to the Special Section honouring Warren R. Lett
Introduction to the special section of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health celebrating the life and work of Warren R. Lett
Art speaking for itself
The article defines the nature of artistic evidence, and discusses factors that make it convincing, and how it relates to the emerging practice of art-based research. Distinctions are made between scientific and artistic evidence with the goal of furthering a complementary environment for enquiry that appreciates the historic ability of the arts to inform and inspire through their expression
Developing arts and health – Within creative-arts therapy or separately
In support of the mission of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, which ‘defines “health” broadly to include physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, occupational, social and community health’, this article expands upon a keynote talk for the 2013 The Arch of Arts in Health International Conference in Haifa, addressing the degree to which the established creative-arts therapy professions have focused more on mental health rather than embrace this…
Introduction
This introduction to the second part of a special issue on ‘Opportunities and challenges in art-based research’ proposes critical examination as a way to advance this increasingly recognized approach to research that nevertheless elicits resistance and hesitation within applied arts professions. Art-based research is defined as the use of personal expression in various art forms as a primary mode of enquiry. These studies may accompany or include…
Opportunities and challenges in art-based research
An introduction to the special issue on Opportunities and Challenges in Art-Based Research, which defines art-based research as the use of artistic expression by researchers as a primary mode of enquiry, and discusses the need for applied arts and health disciplines to understand, support and perfect methods of artistic enquiry, thus applying their unique resources to realizing the opportunities proffered by the arts as ways of understanding and …
Art-Based Research
Empathy With the Shadow
A studio workshop exploring the theme of “empathy with the shadow” demonstrates how the arts and groups can be used to heal and transform personal afflictions. Vulnerabilities and rejected aspects of our personal lives are empathetically embraced as sources of creative energy that suggest approaches to the larger sociopolitical conflicts of the world
Empathy With the Shadow
A studio workshop exploring the theme of “empathy with the shadow” demonstrates how the arts and groups can be used to heal and transform personal afflictions. Vulnerabilities and rejected aspects of our personal lives are empathetically embraced as sources of creative energy that suggest approaches to the larger sociopolitical conflicts of the world
Introduction to the Special Section honouring Warren R. Lett
Introduction to the special section of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health celebrating the life and work of Warren R. Lett
Empathy With the Shadow
A studio workshop exploring the theme of “empathy with the shadow” demonstrates how the arts and groups can be used to heal and transform personal afflictions. Vulnerabilities and rejected aspects of our personal lives are empathetically embraced as sources of creative energy that suggest approaches to the larger sociopolitical conflicts of the world
Art-Based Research
Opportunities and challenges in art-based research
An introduction to the special issue on Opportunities and Challenges in Art-Based Research, which defines art-based research as the use of artistic expression by researchers as a primary mode of enquiry, and discusses the need for applied arts and health disciplines to understand, support and perfect methods of artistic enquiry, thus applying their unique resources to realizing the opportunities proffered by the arts as ways of understanding and …
Introduction
This introduction to the second part of a special issue on ‘Opportunities and challenges in art-based research’ proposes critical examination as a way to advance this increasingly recognized approach to research that nevertheless elicits resistance and hesitation within applied arts professions. Art-based research is defined as the use of personal expression in various art forms as a primary mode of enquiry. These studies may accompany or include…
Art speaking for itself
The article defines the nature of artistic evidence, and discusses factors that make it convincing, and how it relates to the emerging practice of art-based research. Distinctions are made between scientific and artistic evidence with the goal of furthering a complementary environment for enquiry that appreciates the historic ability of the arts to inform and inspire through their expression
Developing arts and health – Within creative-arts therapy or separately
In support of the mission of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, which ‘defines “health” broadly to include physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, occupational, social and community health’, this article expands upon a keynote talk for the 2013 The Arch of Arts in Health International Conference in Haifa, addressing the degree to which the established creative-arts therapy professions have focused more on mental health rather than embrace this…
Natural experiments
Natural experiments are examinations of spontaneous and often transformative acts of nature, including artistic expression. The empirical research produces generalizable outcomes as documented during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. This article discusses how the unplanned nature of natural experiments is contrary to the pervasive practice of research in higher education, including the author’s personal experience as a research advisor. It is sug…
‘Companioning’ in artistic inquiry
This article explores the unique features of Warren Lett’s practice of companioning and its significance within the international community of artistic inquiry. Emphasis is given to the role of personal process as research content and its inseparable relationship to reality. The author’s experiences with this aspect of research are compared to Lett’s work. The article also explores the parallel developments of integrated arts therapy in the Unite…
Introduction to the Special Section honouring Warren R. Lett
Introduction to the special section of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health celebrating the life and work of Warren R. Lett
An integral community of art and healing
While respecting various artistic disciplines, there is a complementary need to understand what they share within an inclusive community of art and healing. The use of artistic expression in therapy and research reflects the departmental structures and interests of academic and professional institutions that separate and classify art forms according to organizational priorities, often attributing the shared concept of art exclusively to the visua…
Ecology of creation
Ecology is approached as a way of understanding the interplay of inner and environmental forces that generate artistic expressions within a natural world that includes humans and their creations. The ecological viewpoint and its emphasis on reciprocal relations with all things emerged from easel painting experiences with young children who innately integrated movement, enactment, sound and imaginative stories and has been affirmed with adults in …
Art (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · The arts (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art Education and Development (3 works)