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Accepted Paper:

Using the Therapeutic Arts in Research  
Susan Hogan (University of Derby)

Paper short abstract:

The Representing Self - Representing Ageing initiative has been funded by the ESRC as part of the New Dynamics of Ageing cross-council research programme. It has consisted of four projects with older women using visual research methods, and participatory approaches, to enable women to articulate their experiences of ageing, and to create alternative images of ageing. Complex research processes are interrogated. Innovative methods have included the use of art elicitation, photo-diaries, film-booths, and phototherapy.

Paper long abstract:

The Representing Self - Representing Ageing initiative has been funded by the ESRC as part of the New Dynamics of Ageing cross-council research programme. It has consisted of four projects with older women using visual research methods, and participatory approaches, to enable women to articulate their experiences of ageing, and to create alternative images of ageing. Complex research processes are interrogated. Innovative methods have included the use of art elicitation, photo-diaries, film-booths, and phototherapy. This paper will articulate the methods used, with particular reference to the art elicitation group (which drew on interactive art therapy) and the phototherapy group. The pros and cons of using these methods in participatory research will be articulated.

Professor Susan Hogan is author of 'Healing Arts: The History of Art Therapy' as she has recently written a series of papers exploring the contribution of art therapy to visual ethnography (with Sarah Pink) and to participatory research (with Lorna Warren).

Panel P31
Healing arts? The arts and aesthetics of medical display
  Session 1