'Use Your Hands for Happiness': crafts practice as a means of building
community assets, health and well-being.
University College Falmouth(Cornwall),
in partnership with Arts for Health Cornwall.
Mode of Study: Full time, for three years
Application Deadline: 13th July 2012
Interview date: 25th July 2012
Start date: 1 October 2012
Funding: Fees and a stipend of ￡14,140 per year
(plus ￡1500 p/a research expenses)
Supervisors: Dr Fiona Hackney (University CollegeFalmouth)
Dr Nicola Thomas (Geography, University of Exeter)
Ms Jayne Howard (Arts for Health Cornwall)
http://air.falmouth.ac.uk/ahrc-cdaphdstudentship
http://www.artsforhealthcornwall.org.uk/
Summary
This AHRC doctoral studentship focuses on the diverse ways in which
craft practice - particularly creative hobby crafts - can enhance the
well-being and health of communities in primary care health practice
initiatives or as part of creative arts health programmes. It takes an
'asset-based' approach to crafts and aims to examine how an art for
health agency can build on the inherent skills, competencies and
creativity in communities, while paying attention to the relationship
between social and cultural capital when agencies work with community
groups. The project develops from the AHRC network Connecting Craft and
Communities http://connectingcraftcommunities.wordpress.com/ and it is
envisaged that questions of craft within social networks, creative and
embodied practices will be central themes.
The award is available as a three-year full-time AHRC studentship. It
pays fees and an annual maintenance grant (currently ￡14,140 per year)
(UK/EU residency requirements, expectation of a Masters degree in a
cognate humanities/social science discipline), with Arts for Health
Cornwall contributing a further ￡1,500 per annum for the student¹s
research expenses.
Informal enquiries before the submission date can be sent to Dr Fiona
Hackney on Fiona.Hackney@falmouth.ac.uk or for application queries
please contact Jemma.Julian@falmouth.ac.uk, tel. 01326 255831
http://air.falmouth.ac.uk/ahrc-cdaphdstudentship
