Mon, 27 Jan 2025 published - Mon, 27 Jan 2025
Job Summary
The Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellowship invites an artist or writer to work with the members and students of the centre to develop their creative practice on a theme related to the health humanities. This year we are offering one grant of £5,000.
Job Description
The Creative Fellowships award aims to explore how creative practice operates as a form of knowing, exploring or discovering issues related to health and illness. We are looking for creative practitioners who are excited about exploring, through their own creative practice, one of the following themes:
1. Care and distress: This theme asks how the arts can provide understandings of mental distress, care-giving, and experiences of the health and social care services. It is particularly interested in feminist and disability-led perspectives.
2. Histories of the mind and of the psychological disciplines: This theme examines how psychological disciplines, such as psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis have developed over time. Projects might engage with the work of a specific historical figure, method, institution, or diagnosis as a starting point for creative practice.
3. Philosophy, health and ethics: This research theme explores experiential and normative questions about health and illness. Projects may offer novel ways of articulating and communicating experiences of illness or explore creative ways of improving ethical decision-making.
The programme is broadly focused on the fields of performance, creative writing, visual arts, or media.
Job Requirements
The applicant should have a creative practice linked to the field of health humanities broadly defined. This can be in creative writing, visual art, or theatre and performance.
Job Responsibilities
The appointed Fellows will be asked to respond creatively to the themes above and then to plan and deliver at least two events aimed at staff or students at UCL, and, as appropriate, a wider public. These could be seminars, creative workshops, performance events, or any other encounter that allows people to collaborate in exploring creativity.
Job Title
Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellowship in Health Humanities
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