C Watfern
Biographic Data
| ID | 67532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Watfern |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Watfern |
| SIGNATURE | WATFERN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Black Dog Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0756-6547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arts-based approaches to climate change, mental health and (un)natural disasters: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Climate change affects mental health and wellbeing globally, and in a range of contexts - from the trauma of (un)natural disasters to the anxiety and grief that comes with awareness of current and future threats. METHODS: This scoping review describes how arts-based approaches are being used in research and/or practice to understand, manage and mitigate distress associated with climate change and natural disasters. After searching two…
Care in the climate crisis: A collage
This visual essay shares Tentacular , a participatory collage project exploring care in the context of the climate crisis. Developed during a residency at The Ethics Centre in Sydney, the project invited collaborators – ranging from Elders and artists to scientists and caregivers – to contribute visual responses to climate emotions using a shared collage scaffold. Through co-creation, Tentacular became both a vessel for diverse stories and a meth…
Climate Distress and the Practice of Connection: A Dialogical and Poetic Approach to Ecopsychology
How might we build community and connection as the wounded world grows warmer and more unlivable? How might we address climate distress in ways that honor right relationships between people, planet, place, and our more-than-human companions? We ask questions like these in this article and seek to answer them as we present a narrative case study of an Australian community of practice focused on climate distress. We draw from the transcripts of a s…
Working in (and between) art and health: Challenges and missteps
Art can have a positive impact on health and well-being and be efficacious in health research and dissemination processes. However, creative, arts-based approaches to research and knowledge translation sometimes have a precarious toehold in the spheres of both health and art. In this paper, we report on failures, misunderstandings, difficulties and ethical tensions associated with work undertaken in, and between, art and health. Using collaborati…
A sad tree: Visualising Ecological Emotions Through Bodies in Place
In this time of climate and ecological crisis, we engaged with young people and their families to articulate feelings in and about the natural world. Our research question: how might the arts-based method of body mapping enable families to explore ecological emotions together? By drawing, collaging, and placing found objects from the local environment, families' body maps evoked complex relationships to each other and the more-than-human. Here, w…
Coalescing, Cross-Pollinating, Crystalising: Developing and Evaluating an Art Installation About Health Knowledge
The HIVE is an arts-based knowledge translation (ABKT) project that showcases work undertaken across Maridulu Budyari Gumal: the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). Here, we present two distinct forms of data (reflective and evaluative) to tell the story of The HIVE and outline the project's achievements and shortcomings. Reflective data are used to describe the process of establishing a creative, cross-dis…
The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People with Intellectual Disability: A Scoping Review
Thom Roberts Reads Crowns: Musing on Art and Neurodiversity through the Lens of One Artist’s Practice
At Studio A, a supported studio for neurodiverse artists, the prolific painter, performer, photocopier, and installation artist Thom Roberts frequently reaches out to connect with friends and fellow artists by running his hands across the backs of their heads; “reading” their crowns. It’s a blessing I have been lucky enough to receive countless times over the course of my ethnographic engagement with Studio A, and as my relationship with Thom has…
Positive Organisational Arts-Based Youth Scholarship: Redressing Discourse on Danger, Disquiet, and Distress during Covid-19
This methodological article argues for the potential of positive organisational arts-based youth scholarship as a methodology to understand and promote positive experiences among young people. With reference to COVID-19, exemplars sourced from social media platforms and relevant organisations demonstrate the remarkable creative brilliance of young people. During these difficult times, young people used song, dance, storytelling, and art to expres…
Coalescing, Cross-Pollinating, Crystalising: Developing and Evaluating an Art Installation About Health Knowledge
The HIVE is an arts-based knowledge translation (ABKT) project that showcases work undertaken across Maridulu Budyari Gumal: the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). Here, we present two distinct forms of data (reflective and evaluative) to tell the story of The HIVE and outline the project's achievements and shortcomings. Reflective data are used to describe the process of establishing a creative, cross-dis…
A sad tree: Visualising Ecological Emotions Through Bodies in Place
In this time of climate and ecological crisis, we engaged with young people and their families to articulate feelings in and about the natural world. Our research question: how might the arts-based method of body mapping enable families to explore ecological emotions together? By drawing, collaging, and placing found objects from the local environment, families' body maps evoked complex relationships to each other and the more-than-human. Here, w…
Thom Roberts Reads Crowns: Musing on Art and Neurodiversity through the Lens of One Artist’s Practice
At Studio A, a supported studio for neurodiverse artists, the prolific painter, performer, photocopier, and installation artist Thom Roberts frequently reaches out to connect with friends and fellow artists by running his hands across the backs of their heads; “reading” their crowns. It’s a blessing I have been lucky enough to receive countless times over the course of my ethnographic engagement with Studio A, and as my relationship with Thom has…
Positive Organisational Arts-Based Youth Scholarship: Redressing Discourse on Danger, Disquiet, and Distress during Covid-19
This methodological article argues for the potential of positive organisational arts-based youth scholarship as a methodology to understand and promote positive experiences among young people. With reference to COVID-19, exemplars sourced from social media platforms and relevant organisations demonstrate the remarkable creative brilliance of young people. During these difficult times, young people used song, dance, storytelling, and art to expres…
The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People with Intellectual Disability: A Scoping Review
Coalescing, Cross-Pollinating, Crystalising: Developing and Evaluating an Art Installation About Health Knowledge
The HIVE is an arts-based knowledge translation (ABKT) project that showcases work undertaken across Maridulu Budyari Gumal: the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). Here, we present two distinct forms of data (reflective and evaluative) to tell the story of The HIVE and outline the project's achievements and shortcomings. Reflective data are used to describe the process of establishing a creative, cross-dis…
Care in the climate crisis: A collage
This visual essay shares Tentacular , a participatory collage project exploring care in the context of the climate crisis. Developed during a residency at The Ethics Centre in Sydney, the project invited collaborators – ranging from Elders and artists to scientists and caregivers – to contribute visual responses to climate emotions using a shared collage scaffold. Through co-creation, Tentacular became both a vessel for diverse stories and a meth…
Climate Distress and the Practice of Connection: A Dialogical and Poetic Approach to Ecopsychology
How might we build community and connection as the wounded world grows warmer and more unlivable? How might we address climate distress in ways that honor right relationships between people, planet, place, and our more-than-human companions? We ask questions like these in this article and seek to answer them as we present a narrative case study of an Australian community of practice focused on climate distress. We draw from the transcripts of a s…
Working in (and between) art and health: Challenges and missteps
Art can have a positive impact on health and well-being and be efficacious in health research and dissemination processes. However, creative, arts-based approaches to research and knowledge translation sometimes have a precarious toehold in the spheres of both health and art. In this paper, we report on failures, misunderstandings, difficulties and ethical tensions associated with work undertaken in, and between, art and health. Using collaborati…
A sad tree: Visualising Ecological Emotions Through Bodies in Place
In this time of climate and ecological crisis, we engaged with young people and their families to articulate feelings in and about the natural world. Our research question: how might the arts-based method of body mapping enable families to explore ecological emotions together? By drawing, collaging, and placing found objects from the local environment, families' body maps evoked complex relationships to each other and the more-than-human. Here, w…
Arts-based approaches to climate change, mental health and (un)natural disasters: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Climate change affects mental health and wellbeing globally, and in a range of contexts - from the trauma of (un)natural disasters to the anxiety and grief that comes with awareness of current and future threats. METHODS: This scoping review describes how arts-based approaches are being used in research and/or practice to understand, manage and mitigate distress associated with climate change and natural disasters. After searching two…
Participatory Visual Research Methods (4 works) · The arts (4 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works)