Conference Theme
KArtsCon2023: Liz Atkin
Liz Atkin is an artist and educator. She reimagines her Compulsive Skin Picking and anxiety into drawings, photographs and performances. Liz is a mental health
Liz Atkin is an artist and educator. She reimagines her Compulsive Skin Picking and anxiety into drawings, photographs and performances. Liz is a mental health
Eleni Karasavvidou teaches Cultural Studies and Intercultural Artistic Education in the University of Ioannina, Greece. She is a member of grassroots art movements, she has
Allyson Trostle Bath is a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Kent studying representations of female mental illness in contemporary fiction. She has a
Some participants attending KArtsCon may require travel visas and/or supporting documentation in order to secure funding or permission to travel to England. Please note that
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
Dr Dieter Declercq is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, and Convenor of the MA Film programme. He is also Co-Director of the Centre for
Dr Stella Bolaki is Reader in American Literature and Medical Humanities in the School of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Health and Medical
Ruth Herbert is Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology and Music Performance, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Arts, University of Kent and a steering group
Bev Hayward is a practising artist, poet and educator. She is an advocate for supporting working class, women returnees with learning differences and disabilities to
Maxine graduated in an MA in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts (2021). She works at the University for the Creative Arts