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Dr Priya Vaughan
Research Fellow
Sydney Medical School
Central Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Sydney Medical School
Central Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Dr Priya Vaughan is a Research Fellow at the Central Clinical School who is passionate about using qualitative, arts-based, and participatory research methods to undertake useful research and knowledge translation.
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Priya’s research interests include:
- Using participatory, co-design, and creative methods to ensure research projects are fit-for-purpose, safe, and useful to the people they are intended to support.
- Engaging with the unique social, cultural, and personal realities that shape mental health experiences, treatments, and care.
- Using qualitative methods to support intervention development and evaluation to support better mental health.
- Using creative and collaborative knowledge translation approaches to help bridge the knowledge-to-action gap.
- Adjunct Lecturer (Psychiatry and Mental Health) UNSW Medicine
- Ecological Emotions Research Lab: Community of Practice
Neurosciences and Mental Health
Publications
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Books
- Biber, K., Luker, T., Vaughan, P. (2021). Law's documents: authority, materiality, aesthetics. London: Routledge. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Vaughan, P. (2023). Culture keeping and Money Making: Aboriginal Women’s Shellwork from the South Coast of NSW. In Kathleen Davidson and Molly Duggins (Eds.), Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. [More Information]
- Vaughan, P., de Jager, A., Boydell, K. (2022). Body Mapping and Youth Experiencing Psychosis. In Pranee Liamputtong (Eds.), Handbook of Social Inclusion Research and Practices in Health and Social Sciences, (pp. 1173-1192). United States: Springer. [More Information]
- Lenette, C., Vaughan, P., Boydell, K. (2022). Reflexive Thematic Analysis in Story Completion Research. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. online: SAGE Publishing. [More Information]
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Journals
- Watfern, C., Watson, M., Doran, B., Vaughan, P. (2024). A sad tree: visualising ecological emotions through bodies in place. Visual Studies. [More Information]
- Watfern, C., Triandafilidis, Z., Vaughan, P., Doran, B., Dadich, A., Disher-Quill, K., Maple, P., Hickman, L., Elliot, M., Boydell, K. (2023). Coalescing, Cross-Pollinating, Crystalising: Developing and Evaluating an Art Installation About Health Knowledge. Qualitative Health Research, 33(1-2), 127-140. [More Information]
- Dadich, A., Vaughan, P., Boydell, K. (2023). The unintended negative consequences of knowledge translation in healthcare: A systematic scoping review. Health Sociology Review, 32(1), 75-93. [More Information]
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Report
- River, J., Vaughan, P., Parker, D., Demant, D. (2023). LGBTQ+ people and Mental Health Services Research: An applied systematic review and lived experience informed synthesis of mental health and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ people.
- Deakin, E., Mills, C., Yin, C., River, J., Vaughan, P., Parker, D., Demant, D., et al (2023). Research Translation Paper: LGBTQ+ People and Mental Health Services.
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2024
- Watfern, C., Watson, M., Doran, B., Vaughan, P. (2024). A sad tree: visualising ecological emotions through bodies in place. Visual Studies. [More Information]
2023
- Watfern, C., Triandafilidis, Z., Vaughan, P., Doran, B., Dadich, A., Disher-Quill, K., Maple, P., Hickman, L., Elliot, M., Boydell, K. (2023). Coalescing, Cross-Pollinating, Crystalising: Developing and Evaluating an Art Installation About Health Knowledge. Qualitative Health Research, 33(1-2), 127-140. [More Information]
- Vaughan, P. (2023). Culture keeping and Money Making: Aboriginal Women’s Shellwork from the South Coast of NSW. In Kathleen Davidson and Molly Duggins (Eds.), Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. [More Information]
- River, J., Vaughan, P., Parker, D., Demant, D. (2023). LGBTQ+ people and Mental Health Services Research: An applied systematic review and lived experience informed synthesis of mental health and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ people.
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2022
- Vaughan, P., de Jager, A., Boydell, K. (2022). Body Mapping and Youth Experiencing Psychosis. In Pranee Liamputtong (Eds.), Handbook of Social Inclusion Research and Practices in Health and Social Sciences, (pp. 1173-1192). United States: Springer. [More Information]
- Vaughan, P., Dew, A., Ngo, A., Blayney, A., Boydell, K. (2022). Exploring Embodied Experience via Videoconferencing: A Method for Body Mapping Online. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1-11. [More Information]
- Lenette, C., Vaughan, P., Boydell, K. (2022). How can Story Completion be Used in Culturally Safe Ways? International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1-11. [More Information]
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2021
- Vaughan, P. (2021). Artists and Legal Documents: Aesthetic, Witnessing, and Affective Power. In Katherine Biber, Trish Luker and Priya Vaughan (Eds.), Law's documents: authority, materiality, aesthetics, (pp. 249-272). London: Routledge. [More Information]
- Boydell, K., de Jager, A., Tewson, A., Vaughan, P. (2021). Audience response to the dissemination of body mapping research via installation art. In K. M. Boydell, A. Dew, S. Collings, K. Senior & L. Smith (Eds.), Applying Body Mapping in Research: An Arts-Based Method, (pp. 104-113). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
- Biber, K., Luker, T., Vaughan, P. (2021). Introduction: Law’s Documents: Materiality, Authority, Aesthetics. In Katherine Biber, Trish Luker and Priya Vaughan (Eds.), Law's documents: authority, materiality, aesthetics, (pp. 3-25). London: Routledge. [More Information]
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2020
- Boydell, K., Bennett, J., Dew, A., Lappin, J., Lenette, C., Ussher, J., Vaughan, P., Wells, R. (2020). Women and Stigma: A Protocol for Understanding Intersections of Experience through Body Mapping. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(15), 5432. [More Information]
2019
- Dew, A., Vaughan, P., McEntyre, E., Dowse, L. (2019). 'Our ways to planning': preparing organisations to plan with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2019 (2), 3-18. [More Information]
- Dew, A., McEntyre, E., Vaughan, P. (2019). Taking the Research Journey Together: The Insider and Outsider Experiences of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Researchers. FQS - Forum: Qualitative Social Research/Sozialforschung, 20(1), 1-17. [More Information]
2018
- Boydell, K., Ball, J., Curtis, J., de Jager, A., Kalucy, M., Lappin, J., Rosenbaum, S., Tewson, A., Vaughan, P., Ward, P., et al (2018). A Novel Landscape for Understanding Physical and Mental Health: Body Mapping Research with Youth Experiencing Psychosis. Art/Research International, 3(2), 236-261. [More Information]
- Vaughan, P. (2018). Art and Life Attitudes: Audience Responses to Jason Wing’s Australia Was Stolen by Armed Robbery. Journal of Australian Studies, 42(4), 461-474. [More Information]
- Larsen, M., Vaughan, P., Bennett, J., Boydell, K. (2018). The ‘BIG Anxiety Project’: Using the arts to visually explore public experiences and attitudes to anxiety. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 9(1), 85-97. [More Information]
Other Books
- Vaughan, P., Agha, Y., et al. (2023). Mapping Stigma and Resilience: Body maps created for the Women marginalised by mental health, disability, or refugee background project. Black Dog Institute. [More Information]
Conference Proceedings
- Vaughan, P., 2016, Pay Attention: Aboriginal Art in NSW. Unpacking Reconciliation: Emerging Thoughts from the ANU Post-graduate Community, Conference Proceedings. Canberra: NCIS.
Lay-friendly Reads, Research Guides and Practical Toolkits
- Vaughan, P., Watfern C., (2024)., Connecting Climate Minds: Art and Lived Experience Facilitators Guide. Connecting Climate Minds: Oceania Group: https://nbswmzwquzluimyqnfsf.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/documents/Connecting_Climate_Minds_Art_and_Lived_Experience_Workshop_Facilitators_Guide_Vaughan_and_Watfern.pdf
- Watfern, C., Vaughan, P., (2023). Care is a relationship: Exploring climate distress and what it means for place, self and community. The Ethics Centre: https://ethics.org.au/care-is-a-relationship/
- Fizell, M., Vaughan, P., Watfern, C., & Morandini, E. (2023). Care is a relationship. University of New South Wales, Library. [exhibition catalogue] https://primoa.library.unsw.edu.au/discovery/delivery/61UNSW_INST:UNSWS/12351365090001731
- Vaughan, P., Blayney, A., Boydell, K., 2022, ‘Sometimes I don’t have the words for things’: how we are using art to research stigma and marginalisation. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/sometimes-i-dont-have-the-words-for-things-how-we-are-using-art-to-research-stigma-and-marginalisation-183819
- Dew, A., McEntyre, E., Vaughan, P., Cooney, E., Dillon Savage, I., and Dowse, L., 2018, No More Waiting: A Guide for Organisations to Plan with Aboriginal People with Disability. Sydney: UNSW. https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/NO_MORE_WAITING_PLANNING_GUIDE_2018.pdf
- 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
- Vaughan, P., 2015, Lustrous Past, Luminous Future in Allas, T., Moar, T and Sibodado, D. ‘Shimmer: An Exhibition Exploring Expanded Notions of Historical and Contemporary Shell-Working Traditions in Indigenous Australia’ [Exhibition Catalogue]. Wollongong: Wollongong Art Gallery
Non-Traditional Research Outputs
- Stony Ground/Pocketful of Hope: Body Maps from the Women and Stigma Project: Knowledge Translation exhibition at Bowen Library, Randwick NSW. Research translation exhibition sharing findings from project managed by Priya Vaughan. April 30- May 30 2024. Curated by Barbara Doran and Priya Vaughan. https://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/library/library-events/library-calendar/events/2024/a pril/exhibition-stony-ground-pocketful-of-hope-body-maps-from-the-women-and-stigma-project
- Banners for a Boiling World: Knowledge Translation exhibition at SLOT Projects, Redfern. Artworks created by Chloe Watfern and Priya Vaughan with community collaborators to document climate emotions. Curated by Tony Twigg. 21 Janurary-24 February 2024. https://www.chloewatfern.com/banners-for-a-boiling-world/
- Care is a Relationship: Knowledge translation exhibition at UNSW Library Galleries. Research translation visual exhibition drawing from project’s led by Priya Vaughan and Chloe Watfern. Curated by Meg Fizell and Emily Morandini. Research Curators: Priya Vaughan, Chloe Watfern. 4 September- 17 November 2023. https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/about-unsw-library/exhibitions-program/care-is-a-relationship
- Mapping Stigma: Knowledge translation exhibition at Deakin Library Galleries. Research translation visual exhibition drawing from project managed by Priya Vaughan. Curated by Jackson Mann and Pip Minney. Research collaborators: Priya Vaughan, Angela Dew. 18 August 2023 – 28 January 2024. https://www.deakin.edu.au/library/use-our-libraries/exhibitions-and-programs/exhibitions/mapping-stigma
- Art+Science/Health II: Exhibition at UTS Medical Building. Underpinned by evaluation of impact of arts-based knowledge translation work. Curated by Barbara Doran, Priya Vaughan, Chloe Watfern and the KT and CCI strategic platform (SPHERE). 10 May 2023 – 15 May 2024
- Art+Science/Health = Wellbeing. Exhibition held in conjunction with Vivid Ideas 2022. Curated by Barbara Doran, Priya Vaughan, Chloe Watfern and the KT and CCI strategic platform (SPHERE). 25 May – 18 June 2022.
- Topsy Turvy: COVID-19 meaning making through art. Exhibition at St Vincent’s Public Hospital. Curated by Barbara and Priya Vaughan and the KT and CCI strategic platform (SPHERE). 9 – 12 May 2022.
- The Corona Quilt Exhibition (Sydney Craft Week). Facilitator of Quilt creation with National Art School Students, Staff and Alumni. Facilitation of community production of the Quilt (https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/quilt-with-a-conscience-artists-make-covid-19-statements-in-squares-20200527-p54x00.html). Project website: (https://coronaquiltnas.wordpress.com/). 9 October – 18 October 2020
- Vivid Sydney: Landscape of the Mind, a sculptural light-based installation at The Rocks, Sydney. Created by Black Dog Institute, Katherine Boydell, Amigo and Amigo, and Natalie Robinson. Support from Anna Tewson, Priya Vaughan. 26 May – 17 June 2017. Keeping the Body in Mind, an exhibition of body mapping and art inspired by mental health issues, held at NIDA and organised by the Black Dog Institute and NIDA. Conceived by Katherine Boydell, with support from Anna Tewson and Priya Vaughan. 14 September 2016.