MyAV·¶

‘Measuring Wellbeing Creatively’ is funded through a MyAV·¶ Grand Challenges: Human Wellbeing Award. The project will work with participants who have acquired communication difficulties (as a result of a brain injury or stroke) to explore how different colours and sensations can help to express feelings and emotions. ÌýThrough a series of workshops, the project will co-develop a visual toolkit for expressing emotions. The project seeks to provide original research on creative and accessible methodologies for measuring wellbeing.

Research Activities

1. Three co-production workshops with adults with acquired communication difficulties (January, February and March 2017)

2. Design of the creative nonverbal toolkit based on colour and co-designed by participants.

3. Cross-disciplinary symposium at MyAV·¶ to present research (July 2017). This will include participants, researchers across faculties and professionals with an interest in wellbeing-related research.

4. Display of the co-production process at MyAV·¶H.

Research Team:

Dr Nuala Morse is the project’s Principal Investigator and is an Honorary Researcher at MyAV·¶ Culture. She is also the Postdoctoral Research Associate for Not So Grim Up North

is the project’s Co-Investigator and is the Deputy Director (Project) and Part-Time Senior Lecturer in Painting at the .

Nir Segal is the project’s artist-researcher and a PhD Candidate at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Dr Michael Dean is on the project team and is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the MyAV·¶ Department of Language and Cognition

Research Collaborators:

Prof Helen Chatterjee, Professor in Biology MyAV·¶ Biosciences, and Head of Research and Teaching for MyAV·¶ Culture.

Dr Linda Thomson is the project’s Senior Research Associate and Cognitive Psychologist at MyAV·¶.

External Collaborators

Professor Martin Marshall, Professor of Healthcare Improvement, Department of

Applied Health Research, MyAV·¶ and GP, Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing

Centre

Mr Guy Noble, Arts Curator, MyAV·¶H Arts and Heritage

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