An ongoing project collaborating with neurodiverse comics creators to explore existing supports and barriers in their creative practice.
Project Summary
The ‘Supporting Neurodiverse Comics Creators’ project explores the experiences of neurodiverse comic creators in Adelaide. Centring the lived experience of the participants, a collaborative research team from UniSA, Flinders University and Adelaide University, in partnership with Writers SA, have consulted with neurodiverse comics creators to scope initial themes or concerns of interest to their practice.
We developed a participatory methodology, engaging a neurodiverse comics creator to facilitate a series of workshops both in person and online, in which participants discussed the support networks which helped them in their comics creation; their engagement with education, both formal and informal; and the challenges of developing a creative practice in Adelaide.
Project Outcomes
A panel was convened on 15 November 2023 as part of a research sharing day on the medical humanities and creative writing convened by UniSA’s Creative People, Products and Places Centre.
In collaboration with comics creators, the research team will develop and disseminate a zine that explains ways to support neurodivergent artists’ practice.
The research team will also develop a peer-reviewed article for a Q1 journal on the methodology, results, interpretation, and implications of the research. Comics will be utilised to communicate the research. A chapter has also been contracted for the Palgrave Handbook of Disability in Comics and Graphic Narratives.
Project Lead: Dr Jessica White, UniSA
Research team:
- Dr Jeanne-Marie Viljoen, UniSA
- Ms Jo Mignone, UniSA
- Dr Katerina Bryant, UniSA
- Associate Professor Kylie Cardell, Flinders University
- Dr Aaron Humphrey, Adelaide University
Supported by the Global Arts and Health Alliance (https://www.gaha.org/project)
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