ORCID Profile
0000-0003-1362-9134
Current Organisation
Queensland University of Technology
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Performing Arts and Creative Writing | Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified | Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Dance | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts
Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance) | The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) |
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2009
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 2013
Abstract: The field of Arts-Health practice and research has grown exponentially in the past 30 years. While researchers are using applied arts as the subject of investigation in research, the evaluation of practice and participant benefits has a limited general focus. In recent years, the field has witnessed a growing concentration on the evaluation of health outcomes, outputs and tangential benefits for participants engaging in Arts-Health practice. The wide range of methodological approaches applied arts practitioners implement make the field difficult to define. This article introduces the term Arts-Health intersections as a model of practice and framework to promote consistency in design, implementation and evaluative processes in applied arts programmes promoting health outcomes. The article challenges the current trend to solely evaluate health outcomes in the field, and promotes a concurrent and multidisciplinary methodological approach that can be adopted to promote evaluation, consistency and best practice in the field of Arts-Health intersections. The article provides a theoretical overview of Arts-Health intersections, and then takes this theoretical platform and details a best model of practice for developing Arts-Health intersections and presents this model as a guide.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 30-08-2015
Abstract: Currently pathological and illness-centric policy surrounds the evaluation of the health status of a person experiencing disability. In this research partnerships were built between disability service providers, community development organizations and disability arts organizations to build a translational evaluative methodology prior to implementation of an arts-based workshop that was embedded in a strengths-based approach to health and well-being. The model consisted of three foci: participation in a pre-designed drama-based workshop program in idualized assessment and evaluation of changing health status and longitudinal analysis of participants changing health status in their public lives following the culmination of the workshop series. Participants (n = 15) were recruited through disability service providers and disability arts organizations to complete a 13-week workshop series and public performance. The study developed accumulative qualitative analysis tools and member-checking methods specific to the communication systems used by in idual participants. Principle findings included increased confidence for verbal and non-verbal communicators increased personal drive, ambition and goal-setting increased arts-based skills including professional engagements as artists demonstrated skills in communicating perceptions of health status to private and public spheres. Tangential positive observations were evident in the changing recreational, vocational and educational activities participants engaged with pre- and post- the workshop series participants advocating for autonomous accommodation and health provision and changes in the disability service staff's culture. The research is an ex le of translational health methodologies in disability studies.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2019
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 14-12-2022
DOI: 10.5204/REP.EPRINTS.227800
Abstract: The arts do not exist in vacuum and cannot be valued in abstract ways their value is how they make people feel, what they can empower people to do and how they interact with place to create legacy. This research presents insights across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand about the value of arts and culture that may be factored into whole of government decision making to enable creative, vibrant, liveable and inclusive communities and nations. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a great deal about our societies, our collective wellbeing, and how urgent the choices we make now are for our futures. There has been a great deal of discussion – formally and informally – about the value of the arts in our lives at this time. Rightly, it has been pointed out that during this profound disruption entertainment has been a lifeline for many, and this argument serves to re-enforce what the public (and governments) already know about audience behaviours and the economic value of the arts and entertainment sectors. Wesley Enoch stated in The Saturday Paper, “[m]etrics for success are already skewing from qualitative to quantitative. In coming years, this will continue unabated, with impact measured by numbers of eyeballs engaged in transitory exposure or mass distraction rather than deep connection, community development and risk” (2020, 7). This disconnect between the impact of arts and culture on in iduals and communities, and what is measured, will continue without leadership from the sector that involves more erse voices and perspectives. In undertaking this research for Australia Council for the Arts and Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage, New Zealand, the agreed aims of this research are expressed as: 1. Significantly advance the understanding and approaches to design, development and implementation of assessment frameworks to gauge the value and impact of arts engagement with a focus on redefining evaluative practices to determine wellbeing, public value and social inclusion resulting from arts engagement in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. 2. Develop comprehensive, contemporary, rigorous new language frameworks to account for a multiplicity of understandings related to the value and impact of arts and culture across erse communities. 3. Conduct sector analysis around understandings of markers of impact and value of arts engagement to identify success factors for broad government, policy, professional practitioner and community engagement. This research develops innovative conceptual understandings that can be used to assess the value and impact of arts and cultural engagement. The discussion shows how interaction with arts and culture creates, supports and extends factors such as public value, wellbeing, and social inclusion. The intersection of previously published research, and interviews with key informants including artists, peak arts organisations, gallery or museum staff, community cultural development organisations, funders and researchers, illuminates the differing perceptions about public value. The report proffers opportunities to develop a new discourse about what the arts contribute, how the contribution can be described, and what opportunities exist to assist the arts sector to communicate outcomes of arts engagement in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 12-2012
Abstract: This article examines motivations and methods for external evaluators in taking on a brokerage relationship between artists, arts managers and governments (national and local) during an appraisal process of community arts events. The argument is situated in our experience evaluating the Creating Queensland programme, a multifaceted community arts programme presented as part of the one of Australia’s largest arts events the Brisbane Festival, in 2009 and 2010. We use this case to identify a number of principles and processes that may assist in establishing an effective evaluation process – defined, for us, as a process in which partners representing different elements of the community arts project can share information in a learning network, or an innovation network, that embraces the idea of continuous improvement. We explain that we, as consultants, are not necessarily the only participants in the evaluation process in a position to broker the decision making about what to research and report on. We argue that empowering each of the delivery partners to act as brokers, using the principles, protocols and processes to negotiate what should be researched, when, how and how it should be shared, is something each delivery partner can do. This can help create a common understanding that can reduce anxieties about using warts-and-all evaluation data to learn, grow and improve in the arts. It can, as a result, be beneficial both for the participating partners and the community arts sector as a whole.
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-01-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2015
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2022
DOI: 10.1386/JAAH_00088_1
Abstract: Pre-dating COVID-19 it was widely acknowledged that there was a loneliness epidemic and that prolonged loneliness and reduced human touch results in increased propensity to heart disease, stroke and clinical dementia. Given such statistics, and the use of isolation and shielding as a health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative that creative projects or research investigations embed strategies to address the potential fragmentation of community and increased difficulty of social connection. This discussion examines two Australian art-based projects – ‘A Place in Our Art’ and ‘Shorewell Presents … Dear Friend’ – to illustrate the use of arts and cultural activities to maintain and support social connection. The article draws on arts-health and performance theory to unpack project design and outcomes of using both physical and virtual creative art-based engagement strategies in a crisis to entice continued participation and support well-being.
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Start Date: 2019
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2014
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 08-2019
End Date: 12-2023
Amount: $179,865.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 06-2014
End Date: 12-2017
Amount: $325,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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