Navigating Identities and Wellbeing
This theme investigates diverse aspects of identity and wellbeing across various contexts. It examines how identities are shaped, negotiated, and developed within social interactions, groups, institutions, physical spaces, and cultural contexts. The research explores how individuals experience and derive wellbeing and and implications thereof, considering mental, physical, and sociocultural processes. Current projects include studying how adolescent identities are co-constructed during parent-child conversations, how academic identities take shape in classroom interactions, how the arts are supporting wellbeing in care settings and contributing to the future of our healthcare system, investigating experiences of inclusion/exclusion in everyday places and practices, examining what the how the arts facilitate processes of sense-making and self-awareness of children, adolescents and adults, and how these dynamics change over the course of development.