Caroline Eastwood is an Assistant Lecturer and PhD candidate in Film at the University of Kent. Her doctoral thesis, Feeling sound: cinematic sound, subjective narration and embodiment examines how film soundtrack can give the viewer entry to the perceptual and psychological experiences of fictional characters. Caroline is especially interested in the close relationship between the multisensory nature of our everyday perception and our cinematic perceptual experience. Interdisciplinary in nature, Caroline’s work engages with the intersection between cognitive film theory, phenomenology, psychology and neuroscience. Published essay in Sound/Image Moments in Television anthology (MUP, 2022), ‘Feeling sound: audiovisuality and the multisensory in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: the return’.
The Arts, Creative Expression and Wellbeing
Chaired by Dr Dieter Declercq, with Dr Ruth Herbert, Dr Stella Bolaki and Allyson Trostle
Roundtable and Discussion
The Arts, Creative Expression and Wellbeing
How does creative involvement with the Arts support health and wellbeing in daily life? What are the ways in which the Humanities (languages, literature, the arts, history and philosophy) help us to understand aspects of what it is to be human, from emotional expression and empathy to historical understandings of illness and health?
This session introduces the work of the University of Kent’s Centre for Health and Medical Humanities. Launched in 2022 the CHMH brings together scholars who investigate the relationship of the arts and humanities to health, healthcare, medicine and medical education. It features four brief case studies, before opening up an informal discussion with panel members and the audience.
Case study contributions:
- Emotion becomes book: Artists’ books in participatory arts and health contexts. Dr Stella Bolaki (Co-Director Centre for Health and Medical Humanities, Reader in American literature and Medical Humanities).
- Health musicking in everyday life and participatory arts contexts. Dr Ruth Herbert (Senior Lecturer, Music psychologist, School of Arts, Dept of Music & Audio Technology)
- Film sound and empathy. Caroline Eastwood (Film Studies)
- Representations of female mental illness in fiction and the use of self-writing to manage emotional wellbeing. Allyson Trostle (School of English)
Roundtable Chair: Dr Dieter Declercq, Co-Director Centre for Health and Medical Humanities, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media.