Michael Tan

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Dr Michael Tan PhD, MA, BFA

Associate Professor

Summary

My research interest explores art and design practices in relation to health & well-being, care, ageing, and human flourishing. Inspired by assemblage theory, I am interested to explore the role of creative practice in shaping culture of care in various care settings and the wider context of medical/ health humanities and health communication.

Dr Michael Tan

About

I joined Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University as an Associate Professor in Art and Design in 2020; contributing to the lab’s ongoing work on the 100 Year Life & the Future Home as well as Post-graduate education development. My ongoing collaborations include The Repository for Arts and Health Resources project led by Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University; The A-health Project (Mcgill University- Nanyang Technological University). I keen to explore collaboration or supervise projects related, but not limited to the following lines of inquiry:

  • The Future of Care and wellbeing
  • Wonderment and Wellbeing
  • Therapeutic engagements/ experience (e.g. technology-inspired participatory)
  • Therapeutic Objects
  • Communicating Health

Teaching

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Research

Current Projects

My research interests include:

  • Arts, Design and Culture for Health and Wellbeing
  • Creative Ageing
  • Socially-Engaged Art and Design
  • Health/ Medical Humanities
  • Art and design in Medicine Education
  • Arts-based Social/ Health Research / Visual Methods
  • Art & design-based Health Communication

Publications

Journal articles

Ho, A.H.Y., Ma, S.H.X., Tan, M., Bajpai, R., Goh, S.S.N., Yeo, G., ... Beauchet, O. (2023). Effects of participatory ‘A’rt-Based Activity On ‘Health’ of Older Community-Dwellers: results from a randomized control trial of the Singapore A-Health Intervention. Frontiers in Medicine, 10. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1238562

Ma, S.H.X., Tan, M., Goh, S.S.N., Yeo, G., Teng, A., Yang, Y., ... Ho, A.H.Y. (2023). A qualitative examination on the implementation of participatory “A”rt-based activity on “Health” of older community-dwellers: what worked for the Singapore A-Health Intervention? Frontiers in Medicine, 10. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1238563

Tan, M., Tan, C.M., Tan, S.G., Yoong, J., & Gibbons, B. (2021). Connecting the Dots: The State of Arts and Health in Singapore. Arts and Health. http://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2021.2005643

Ho, A.H.Y., Ma, S.H.X., Tan, M.K.B., & Bajpai, R.C. (2021). A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial of an Intergenerational Arts and Heritage-Based Intervention in Singapore: Project ARTISAN. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.730709

Tan, M., & Tan, C.M. (2021). Curating wellness during a pandemic in Singapore: COVID-19, museums, and digital imagination. Public Health, 192, 68-71. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.01.006

Tan, M. (2019). Art and Design Education in the Ecology of Care. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38 (4), 878-886. http://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12273

Tan, M. (2018). Towards a caring practice: reflections the processes and components of arts-health practice. Arts and Health, 12 (1), 1-18. http://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2018.1494452

Tan, M. (2018). Connecting reminiscence, art making and cultural heritage: A pilot art-for-dementia care programme. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 9 (1), 25-36. http://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.9.1.25_1

Conference papers

Seah, C.E.L., & Tan, M. (2018). Multilink - a multi-sensorial game for persons with dementia. Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference. http://doi.org/10.21278/idc.2018.0158

Book chapters

Tan, M.K.B. (2022). Caring Consciousness, Participatory Art, and Well-Being: The Caring Artist. In Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities. (pp. 1-5). Springer International Publishing: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26825-1_146-1

Tan, M.K.B., & Atkinson, S. (2020). Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing. In Global Perspectives on Health Geography. (pp. 241-259). Springer International Publishing: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7_14

Books

Clift, S., Kreutz, G., Pritchard, S., Tan, M., Lehikoinen, K., De Quadros, A., ... Phillips, K. (Eds.). (2023). A critical appraisal of research in arts, health and wellbeing. Frontiers Media SA. http://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-8325-2731-3

Clift, S., Kreutz, G., Pritchard, S., Tan, M., Lehikoinen, K., De Quadros, A., ... Phillips, K. (Eds.). (2023). A critical appraisal of research in arts, health and wellbeing. Frontiers Media SA. http://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-8325-2731-3

Performances

Tan, M., & Barnes, A. (2022). Dying Matters - a participatory performance to explore the complexities and consequences arising from our struggles to talk openly about issues such as dying, and highlighting the importance of such exchanges. Lab4Living, Dying Dialogue Symposium (Toronto, Canada), Dying Matter Week 2023 (Sheffield- Lab4Living) https://lab4living.org.uk/projects/dying-matters/

Other publications

Tan, M., & Fisher, H. (2023). Stories from the Pandemic. OPUS: https://www.sheffieldstoriesfromthepandemic.com/share-your-story

Tan, M., & Fisher, H. (2023). Stories from the Pandemic. OPUS: https://www.sheffieldstoriesfromthepandemic.com/share-your-story

Postgraduate supervision

I am keen to explore collaboration or supervise projects related, but not limited to the following lines of inquiry:

  • The Future of Care and Wellbeing
  • Wonderment and Wellbeing
  • Therapeutic engagements/ experience (e.g. technology-inspired participatory)
  • Therapeutic Objects
  • Communicating Health

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