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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), 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

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

Media

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

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.

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