Candice followed the research interest: Elizabeth Grosz
Candice started following the work of Anja Kanngieser, University of Western Sydney, Centre for Cultural Research.
Faculty Member, Centre for youth mental health
Thesis Title: Encountering the virtual 'in and through' art: Non-representational geographies of therapeutic art practices
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Rachel Hughes
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About
I am a clinical psychologist, cultural geographer, and artist with an interest in the geographies of mental health and wellbeing.
Mental health geography is allied to a growing inter-disciplinary effort to understand the relationship between health and place – the context in which health is achieved, what it means to feel well, and the practices that support wellbeing. Although I am interested this relationship across the life-span, I am particularly concerned about young people’s wellbeing and care.
Regarding practices, I am interested in the social geographies of caring, experiences of social inclusion and exclusion, and creative and therapeutic practices. I have conducted research on each of these areas using qualitative and quantitative methods. More recently, I have been experimenting with performative research methods to investigate the non-representational geographies of therapeutic art-making. This research has led me to an engagement with continental philosophy.
As a psychologist who originally trained in the biological sciences, I have prevailing interests in behaviour genetics, complexity theory, and evolutionary psychology. This fuels my current philosophical interest in bodies, perception, and sensory experience.
