Katherine Boydell is an internationally recognised leader in qualitative inquiry and arts-based knowledge translation in mental health and social care with innovative approaches to create knowledge and translate empirical research using arts-based methods, including art installations.
She is the founder and head of the award-winning Arts-based Knowledge Translation Lab at Black Dog Institute and Director, Knowledge Translation, Maridulu Budyari Gumal – Sydney Partnership for Health Education Research and Enterprise.
She was appointed as a Fellow of the prestigious Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 2020.
She is Vice-President of the Arts & Health Network of NSW/ACT and is Executive Editor of the Arts & Health journal and Associate Editor of Early Intervention in Psychiatry.
She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Wollongong, University of Sydney, Rotterdam Arts & Science Lab, Radboud University, and Singapore Art Museum.
She has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and books as well as other arts-based outputs such as research-based installations and exhibits and two PhDs.
This is some impressive stuff!
In this episode, Prof. Catherine Boydell explores how the arts are used to translate mental health research into public conversation and policy. She discusses projects like Rebloom and body mapping, the collaborative creative processes behind them, and how visual and performative work amplifies lived experience.
She emphasises balancing rigorous evidence with human stories and urges listeners to “embrace messiness,” highlighting how art fosters empathy, mental health literacy, and practical change.
John and Simon hope you enjoy the show as much as they enjoyed making it. Its the reason they started this show – interesting, cool and creative people who have taken the path less travelled and kicked arse!
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