About

Emilie is a qualified Art Psychotherapist with twenty years experience in community arts and creative health provision. She uses creative, qualitative methodologies based on heritage crafts, and especially ceramic art, to support better health outcomes for service users in her community. Co-design and participatory action seek to engage communities affected by the research with policy makers, commissioners and cultural institutions to produce collaborative outcomes such as exhibitions, films and radio programmes.

Emilie has designed and led projects for many voluntary sector organisations including Together Women, Project 6 and Phoenix Futures, exhibiting outcomes at The Whitworth Manchester, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield and Blackwell Cumbria. Her work forms part of public collections at Gallery Oldham, The Williamson Birkenhead, Rugby Art Gallery, Sheffield Galleries and Museums, and the V&A, London.

Emilie’s research interests include:

• Creative health.
• The role of heritage crafts in the contemporary urban environment.
• Therapeutic groups/ group process and dynamics.
• Participatory action research, creative methods and social justice.

Research

• Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research

Publications

A list of publications is available from the institutional repository, SHURA