
Body Mapping Resources
Article
​Vaughan, P., Blaney, A., Taylor, S., Boydell, K.M., Lenette, C., Lappin, J., Dew, A. (2025). “We are mirrored in your gaze”: Experiences and outcomes of discrimination for women with disability and mental distress. Disability and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2025.2470727
Article
Vaughan, P., Tewson, A., Morgan, P., Boydell, K.M. (2023). “Chains weigh heavy” and “joy in my body”: body mapping embodied experiences of anxiety and non-anxiety. The Qualitative Report. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol28/iss2/15/
Article
Vaughan, P., Dew, A., Ngo, A., Blayney, A., Boydell, K.M. (2022). Exploring embodied experience via teleconferencing: A method for body mapping online. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221145848
Article
Malecki, J.S., Rhodes, P., Ussher, J., Boydell, K.M. (2022). The embodiment of childhood abuse and anorexia nervosa: A body mapping study. Health Care for Women International, doi:10.1080/07399332.2022.2087074
Article
Macken, S., Nathan, S., Jersky, M., Boydell, K.M., Gibson, A. (2021). Body Mapping in a drug and alcohol treatment program: Eliciting new identity and experience. IJERPH. 18(9), 4982, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094942
Article
Boydell, K.M., Bennett, J., Dew, A., Lappin, J., Lenette, C., Ussher, J., Vaughan, P., Wells, R. (2020). Women and stigma: A protocol for understanding intersections of experiences through body mapping. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(15), 5432, doi.10.3390/ijerph1715543
Article
Macken, S., Nathan, S., Jersky, M., Boydell, K.M., Gibson, A. (2019). Body mapping: piloting an approach to explore the experiences of young people in drug and alcohol residential treatment. Drug and Alcohol Review, 38, S69-S69.
Article
Boydell, K.M. (2019). The journey to a wider understanding of ways of knowing: Knowledge translation and the arts. LEARNing Landscapes. 12(1): 19-27. Invited.
Article
Boydell, K.M., de Jager, A., Ball, J., Curtis, J., Lappin, J., Kalucy, M., Rosenbaum, S., Tewson, A., Vaughan, P., Ward, P., Watkins, A. (2018). Mapping a novel landscape for understanding physical and mental health: Arts-based research with youth experiencing psychosis, Art/Research International, 3(2), 236-261. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29337
Article
de Jager, A., Tewson, A., Ludlow, B. and Boydell, K.M. (2016). Embodied ways of storying the self: A systematic review of body mapping. Forum Qualitative Sozialforchung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1602225
Book
Boydell, K. M., Dew, A., Smith, L., Senior, K., Collings, S. (Eds). (2021). Applying body mapping in research: An arts-based method, London UK: Taylor and Francis, Routledge Publishers.
Book Chapter
Vaughan P., de Jager A., Boydell K.M. (2021) Body Mapping and Youth Experiencing Psychosis. In: Liamputtong P. (eds) Handbook of Social Inclusion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48277-0_63-1 FWCI 11.06
Book Chapter
Boydell, K.M. (2021). Introduction to body mapping. In Boydell, K.M. et al., (ed). Applying body mapping in research: An arts-based method, (pp1-5). London: UK, Routledge Publishing.
Book Chapter
Boydell, K.M., Collings, S., Dew, A., Senior, K., Smith, L. (2021). Applying body mapping to research with marginalised and vulnerable groups. In Boydell, K.M. (ed). Applying body mapping in research: An arts-based method, (pp6-17). London: UK, Routledge Publishing.
Book Chapter
Cox, S., Guillemin, M., Boydell, K.M. (2021). Body mapping in process. In Boydell, K.M. (ed). Applying body mapping in research: An arts-based method, (pp37-46). London: UK, Routledge Pub, 37.
Book Chapter
Boydell, K.M., de Jager, A., Tewson, A., Vaughan, P. (2021). Audience response to the dissemination of body mapping research via installation art. In Boydell, K.M. (ed). Applying body mapping in research: An arts-based method, (pp104-113). London: UK, Routledge Publishing.
Book Chapter
Boydell, K.M., Orchard, T. (2021). Remembering the body. In Boydell, K.M. (ed). Applying body mapping in research: An arts-based method, (pp123-130). London: UK, Routledge Publishing.
Article
Vaughan, P., Agha, Y., et al…Boydell, K.M. (eds), 2023, Mapping Stigma and Resilience: Body maps created for the Women marginalised by mental health, disability, or refugee background project. Sydney, Australia: Black Dog Institute. [Lay friendly report/ visual catalogue].
Article
Vaughan, P., Blayney, A., Boydell, K.M. (2022). Sometimes I don’t have the words for things: How we are using art to research stigma and discrimination. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/sometimes-i-dont-have-the-words-for-things-how-we-are-using-art-to-research-stigma-and-marginalisation-183819
Article
Boydell, K.M., Curtis, J., de Jager, A., Kalucy, M., Khut, G., Lappin, J., ... & Watkins, A. (2016, October). Keeping the Body in Mind over Time: Mapping Experiences of Young People with Psychosis. In EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY (Vol. 10, pp. 107-107). 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY-BLACKWELL.
Article
Tewson, A., Vaughan, P., De Jager, A, and Boydell, K., 2016, Body Mapping Anxiety: A Guide for High School Students. Sydney: Black Dog Institute. https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/default-source/factsheets/body-mapping-anxiety-guide_highschool.pdf?sfvrsn=2
Article
Boydell, K.M. (2021). Mental health and the arts. Frame of Mind, Sydney, NSW: National Art School. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=489547022665603
Article
Boydell, K.M. (2021). Body mapping. In Stillness through art: a guide to overcome ecoanxiety. Ed by Sofie Dieu, East Gippsland, VIC: Black Rainbow.
Installation
Boydell, K.M. and others. Body mapping discrimination and stigma, Art installation at Royal Randwick Shopping Centre, Randwick, June 2025.
Installation
Boydell, K.M. and others. Body mapping stigma and discrimination, Art installation at One Farrer Place, Sydney, May 2025.
Installation
Boydell, K.M. and others. Care is a Relationship, Installation, UNSW Library Gallery, September -November 2023.
Installation
Boydell, K.M. and others. Mapping stigma, Deakin University, August 18-September 24, 2023 [body mapping installation, ARC DP].
Media
Boydell, K.M. and others. The art and science of body mapping. Interview with Paul Taylor podcast. https://omny.fm/shows/the-mindbodybrain-project/the-art-and-science-of-body-mapping-with-professor
Media
Boydell, K.M. The Truth about Anxiety, Body Mapping with Celia Pacquola, SBS On Demand, October 3, 2021.
Media
Boydell, K.M. Body mapping session for SBS Can Science Prevent Suicide documentary, Host Osher Gunsberg, November 6, 2020.
Event
Boydell, K.M. Body mapping in the galleries. Body mapping anxiety with the general public, Art Gallery of New South Wales, October 4, 2017.
Installation
Boydell, K.M. Landscape of the Mind, Body Mapping Installation, based on research on the lived experience of anxiety, Vivid Sydney, May 27 to June 17, 2017.
Event
Boydell, K.M. Keeping the Body in Mind: Body Mapping with Young People Experiencing Psychosis, Exhibit and knowledge dissemination event, National Institute of Dramatic Art, September 14, 2016.
Event
Boydell, K.M.Body Mapping Anxiety, Sydney Science Fest, National Institute of Dramatic Art, August 13, 2016.
Media
Boydell, K.M.Body Mapping Anxiety, ABC 702, Radio, Interviewed by James Valentine, August 11, 2016. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-11/body-mapping-anxiety-for-science-week/7715996
Article
Watfern, Chloe, Marthy Watson, Barbara Doran, and Priya Vaughan. 2024. "A Sad Tree: Visualising Ecological Emotions Through Bodies in Place " Visual Studies. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2328603.
Article
Micol Pizzolati, Embodied stories of mental illness treatment of a loved one. Coercion unveiled with body mapping, on "Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Rivista trimestrale fondata da Camillo Pellizzi" 4/2022, pp. 905-931, doi: 10.1423/106249.
Article
Micol Pizzolati, Treatment of loved ones with mental illness unveiled through body mapping: A collective workshop. https://practiceasresearch.nicole-brown.co.uk/body-mapping/
Article
Pizzolati, M., (2025). Making a body mapping workshop a safe space for drawing/telling about caring for a family member with mental distress. In Sage Research Methods: Data and Research Literacy. SAGE Publications, Ltd., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781036221331. https://methods.sagepub.com/case/making-body-mapping-safe-space-caring-family-member-mental-distress
Article
CohenMiller, A., & Rakisheva, A. (2025). Teaching and learning with body mapping online using digital tools: Navigating methodological vulnerability and insights for future development. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251324096
Article
CohenMiller, A, & Rakisheva, A. (2024, Jan 24). Online body mapping? Experimenting with innovating the justice-centered arts-based approach. World Conference Qualitative Research (WCQR). Invited workshop. Azores, Portugal. Online.
Article
Dew, A., Smith, L., Collings, S., & Dillon-Savage, I. (2018). Complexity Embodied: Using Body Mapping to Understand Complex Support Needs. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 19(2) Article 4. Release May.
Article
Collings, S., Wright, A.C & Spencer, M (2022). Telling visual stories of loss and hope. Qualitative Research 22(6) 877-896. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211004218
Book Chapter
Collings, S., & Smith, L. (2021). Representations of complex trauma: Body maps as a narrative mosaic. In K. Boydell (Ed). Applying Body Mapping in Research: An Arts-Based Method. (Ch 4) Routledge: London and New York.
Book Chapter
Collings, S., Dew, A., Curryer, B., Dillon-Savage, I., & Tewson, A. (2021). Meaning-making and research rigour: Approaches to the synthesis of multiple data sources in body mapping. In K. Boydell (Ed). Applying Body Mapping in Research: An Arts-Based Method. (Ch 7) Routledge: London and New York.
Book Chapter
Dew, A., Collings, S., & Dillon-Savage, I. (2021). Real world integration: Body maps as a planning tool. In K. Boydell (Ed). Applying Body Mapping in Research: An Arts-Based Method. (Ch 12) Routledge: London and New York.
Article
Ong, Tricia; Mellor, David & Chettri, Sabrina (2020). Clay as a Medium in Three-Dimensional Body Mapping [56 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 21(2), Art. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-21.2.3380.
Article
Ong, T., Mellor, D., & Chettri, S. (2021). “Females are always dominated and disregarded by males, just because they are female”: the continuation of patriarchal norms for young trafficked women in Nepal. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 24(10), 1350–1365. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2021.1949495
Article
Ong, T., Mellor, D., & Chettri, S. (2019). Multiplicity of stigma: the experiences, fears and knowledge of young trafficked women in Nepal. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 27(3), 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2019.1679968.
Book
Verhoest, X (Art2Be), Shah, J/UNON, GIZ, and TICAH. Our Stories, Our Bodies Use of Body Mappings with PLWHIV.
Book
Aroussi, S., Badurdeen, F. A., Jakala, M. and Verhoest, X. (2020). Body Maps of Resistance Understanding everyday resistance to violent extremism in Kenya. Leeds: The University of Leeds. https://doi.org/10.5518/100/50
Book
Verhoest, X (Art2Be), Garissa Kenya Life and Peace Institute. We are all this and more - Body mapping as journeys of self-reflection.
Book
Verhoest, X (Art2Be), Kamiru, W. Who I Am Who We Are An Art Project on Kenyan Identity 2012-2017
Book
Verhoest, X (Art2Be). Windows into our Lives - An art project in Mogadishu Somalia
Book
Verhoest, X. (Art2Be), Camozzi, C., Martinez, A A., Mohamed, A. (ATO). Windows into our Lives - An art project in Mogadishu Somalia
Article
Mykkanen, T. (2022). Intersubjective body mapping for reintegration: assessing an art-based methodology to promote reintegration of foreign terrorist fighters. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(4), 988–1022. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2119678
Article
Article
Aroussi, S., Badurdeen, F. A., Verhoest, X., & Jakala, M. (2022). Seeing bodies in social sciences research: Body mapping and violent extremism in Kenya. Qualitative Research, 23(5), 1261-1282. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941221096598 (Original work published 2023)
Media
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). Synopsis and impact video: https://youtu.be/fLa9AGg1ftQ?si=lNcYB5uibEC5dW81
Media
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). Trailer: https://youtu.be/BmYAtoJA9Wk?si=aLq5oVl6_p0LP3WR
Media
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). Shorts Interview Series: https://www.youtube.com/@SoulPaintxr/shorts
Article
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). Mental Wellbeing chapter in: The Growing Value of XR in Healthcare in the United Kingdom Report
Article
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). Featured in: Neuroaesthetics—Design for the Mind Report
Media
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). The Hollywood Report: SXSW: Rosario Dawson to Narrate Immersive Virtual Reality Project ‘Soul Paint’ (Exclusive)
Media
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). Forbes: How Soul Paint Uses XR To Help You Understand Your Body And Emotions
Media
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). Upload VR: Soul Paint Aims To Encourage Self Reflection Through XR
Media
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). New Wave Mag: Where Are You Feeling? Expressing and Mapping Emotions via Soul Paint
Media
Ticho, S (Hatsumi / Soul Paint). Voices of VR Podcast: #1381: “Soul Paint” Wins SXSW Special Jury Prize for Innovative Body Mapping Technique to Spatially Draw Your Emotions.
Book
Orchard, T. (2016). Remembering the Body: Ethical Issues in Body Mapping Research.
Film
Sykes-Smith, E. (2021). Canopy of Thoughts (Summary Film), MFA Thesis Project, AAIS, Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Article
Sykes-Smith, E. (2021). Canopy of Thoughts (Summary), MFA Thesis Project, AAIS, Architectural Association School of Architecture.
