Mandy Archibald

Biography

Mandy Archibald is a Canadian multi media artist, CIHR fellow and postdoctoral researcher in the Adelaide Nursing School, University of Adelaide with the NHMRC Funded Centre for Research Excellence in Frailty and Healthy Ageing. In her work, Mandy merges the arts and sciences in various ways to explore meanings of health and illness, and to develop alternative ways of understanding, representing and raising awareness of health research for various audiences. She is and has been involved in a number of arts and health projects across the health-illness spectrum including childhood asthma, epilepsy, frailty and heart disease. Her research interests involve health communications (e.g., digital, arts-based, patient-centered) and collaborative knowledge translation approaches to understanding and addressing the needs of underserved populations, and mixed methods and arts-based research approaches. She is an advocate for coming at things differently, believes that consumer driven and collaborative research is essential to effective knowledge translation and health systems change. Mandy is a senior executive board member for the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) and co-lead with Prof Kitson for the knowledge translation arm of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Frailty and Healthy Ageing. Her research skills include qualitative and mixed methods research approaches; scoping, narrative and systematic reviews; knowledge translation (particularly collaborative approaches and arts-based knowledge translation), and arts-based research methodologies.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc