Catherine Baker

Dr Catherine Baker is an Associate Professor in Art and Health. As an artist researcher she explores the interface between critical art practices and health, medicine and wellbeing. Her current research interests include narratives of illness and the clinical encounter and the ways in which critical art practices support unpacking the experience of illness/disease and or surgery. As an artist/researcher her early PhD work involved working with neuroscientists with whom she shared an interest in the neurobiology of the eye and the perceptual encounter. Her interest in this encounter as a phenomenological consideration remains although since 2010 her research has become more focused on the impact of art practice in clinical contexts. As an experienced principal investigator she has led novel, multi-partnered interdisciplinary projects investigating environment and embodiment, and health/well-being in relation to Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.