Tricia King

Biography

Dr Tricia King is a researcher in creative arts health projects for wellbeing focusing on creative engagement with older people through photographic and creative practices.

Utilising lens-based techniques such as photo voice, photo-elicitation, documentary and collaborative photography, Tricia develops collaborative participant driven projects anchored in ethically focused research methods and underpinned by friendship and reciprocity. Her work predominantly focuses on older people living in aged care and people living with dementia to explore their lived experience, enhance well-being and help develop programs to assist with greater socialisation and communication. Her current work involves interdisciplinary collaborations with health professionals to develop methods of creative projects to increase creativity, movement, socialisation and wellbeing and explorations of photographic practices with people living with dementia.

Tricia’s creative practice explores interdisciplinary place-based projects which investigate how remote embodied experiences of natural environments can facilitate ecological empathy, cultural knowledge and connection to place.

Teaching areas

• Photography

Program coordinator

• Bachelor of Design

Professional memberships

• Queensland Arts Health Network
• Australian Association of Gerontology
• Australian Association of Gerontology Student and Early Career Research Group – Communications Intern
• International Society for Visual Sociology

Awards and Fellowships

• 2019 – State Library of Queensland Placemaking Fellowship
• 2016-2918 - Australian Postgraduate Award

Expert media commentary

Tricia King's special areas of knowledge include visual methodologies, contemporary photographic practices, arts-engaged health and wellbeing, social photographic practices.