Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education

Narelle Lemon is an interdisciplinary researcher in the fi elds of education, positive psychology and arts, holding the positions of Associate Professor in Education and Associate Dean (Education) for the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

1. Poetic inquiry: Transformational representations of wellbeing and self-care in higher education Section 1: Making and creating as a representation of self-care 2. The feeling of doingthinking and thinkingdoing of making processes 3. Journaling Right and Left 4. Meditative Math-Making Section 2: Collaborative expression, embodiment, and the power of relationships 5. Stepping off the Edge: Circles of Connection and Creativity for Wellbeing in the Academy 6. Running, Writing, Resilience: A Self-Study of Collaborative Self-Care Among Women Faculty 7. Making mindful moments: Made artefacts as a form of data visualisation to monitor and respond to self-care and wellbeing Section 3: Creative practice as interruption 8. Using arts-based and feminist methodologies to slow the wear and tear/s of academic work/life 9. Playing with pictures to make sense and interrupt the hurly-burly university game. 10. Self-Care in the Time of Crisis: An a/r/tographic conversation to explore self-care as academics, that took an unexpected turn Section 4: Mind, body, and movement as acts of self-care 11. Kia kōrero te tinana katoa (The whole body must speak): Māori early career academics and performing ones’ cultural self for hauora 12. Cycling as a form of self-care: Incorporating and sustaining purposeful movement practices to support wellbeing 13. Anatomy of a burnout: Walking, reading and journal writing as practices of self-care to support intellectual life