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Dr Chloe Watfern

Dr Chloe Watfern

Conjoint Lecturer
Medicine & Health
George Institute for Global Health

Dr Chloe Watfern is a Communications and Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Black Dog Institute and a Research Associate of the Knowledge Translation Strategic Platform of Maridulu Budyari Gumal SPHERE (Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise). As a transdisciplinary researcher and artist, she is passionate about using inclusive and arts-based methods that involve meaningful collaboration with communities. She presents, publishes, and leads creative workshops about the connections between climate change and mental health.

For her art and writing, visit: https://www.chloewatfern.com/

E-mail
chloe.watfern@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2024
    Watfern C, 2024, HOW ART WORKS: Stories from Supported Studios, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003466703
  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Vercammen A; Vaughan P; Watfern C, 2025, 'Understanding and enhancing cultural ecosystem services through art', in Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services, pp. 243 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003414896-24
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Adams K; Boué S; Watfern C, 2022, 'Being together in a neurodiverse world: Exploring with Project Art Works', in Big Anxiety Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, pp. 239 - 249
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Watfern C; Bennett J; Habak S; Boydell K, 2022, 'Edge of the present: Mixed reality, suicidality and future thinking', in Bennett J (ed.), The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, pp. 28 - 37, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-anxiety-9781350297791/
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Dunk J; Watfern C; Falco C; Gillespie S; Monaghan G; Rhodes P; Vercammen A, 2025, 'Navigating family systems in climate catastrophe: An open dialogue', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70002
    Journal articles | 2025
    Vaughan P; Watfern C; Doran B; Dadich A; Habak S; Boydell K, 2025, 'Working in (and between) art and health: challenges and missteps', Medical Humanities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2025-013316
    Journal articles | 2025
    Watfern C; Carnemolla P, 2025, 'Inclusive Climate Action: A Scoping Review on the Representation and Inclusion of People With Intellectual Disability in Climate Change Research', British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 53, pp. 428 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bld.12632
    Journal articles | 2025
    Watfern C; Gillespie S; Stone J; Falco C; Wilson C; Igoe G; Vercammen A; Doolan B; Rhodes P; Dunk J, 2025, 'Climate Distress and the Practice of Connection: A Dialogical and Poetic Approach to Ecopsychology', Ecopsychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19429347251382554
    Journal articles | 2025
    Watfern C; Watson M; Doran B; Vaughan P, 2025, 'A sad tree: visualising ecological emotions through bodies in place', Visual Studies, 40, pp. 361 - 370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2328603
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dadich A; Vaughan P; Watfern C; Triandafilidis Z; Habak S; Boydell KM, 2024, 'Growing and fostering knowledge translation: Recommendations for health organisations from the SPHERE Envisionarium', Heliyon, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36817
    Journal articles | 2024
    Macdonald D; Watfern C; Boydell KM, 2024, 'How not to talk about it: Using digital storytelling with children with anxiety', Methods in Psychology, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100159
    Journal articles | 2024
    Watfern C; Macdonald G; Elliot M; Stone L; Gilmore I; Wallace S; Tecson M; Turk N; Bingham P; Mears J; Dadich A; Doran B; Boydell K, 2024, 'Craftivism as Inquiry: Holding Life's Threads', Qualitative Report, 29, pp. 183 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.6007
    Journal articles | 2022
    Carter A; Strnadová I; Watfern C; Pebdani R; Bateson D; Loblinzk J; Guy R; Newman C, 2022, 'The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People with Intellectual Disability: A Scoping Review', Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 19, pp. 372 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-021-00549-y
    Journal articles | 2022
    Vaughan P; Watfern C; Triandafilidis Z; Doran B; Dadich A; Disher-Quill K; Maple P; Hickman L; Elliot M; Boydell K, 2022, 'Coalescing/Crosspollinating/ Crystalising: Developing and evaluating an art installation about health knowledge’', Qualitative Health Research, 33, pp. 127 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323221145120
    Journal articles | 2021
    Dadich A; Boydell KM; Habak S; Watfern C, 2021, 'Positive organisational arts-based youth scholarship: Redressing discourse on danger, disquiet, and distress during COVID-19', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115655
    Journal articles | 2021
    Scott L; Watfern C, 2021, 'Becoming an artist and sharing my story', British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 49, pp. 287 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bld.12397
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watfern C; Doran B; Dadich A; Triandafilidis Z; Habak S; Boydell KM, 2021, 'The HIVE: a co-created art installation about health', Public Health, 193, pp. 26 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.12.007
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watfern C, 2021, 'Thom Roberts Reads Crowns: Musing on Art and Neurodiversity through the Lens of One Artist’s Practice', Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29546
    Journal articles | 2021
    Watfern C, 2021, '“Thom Roberts is an artist and a country express train”. Commentary on “Community participation as identity and belonging: a case study of Arts Project Australia. “I am an artist”” (Anderson & Bigby, 2021)', Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 8, pp. 15 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2021.1899847
    Journal articles | 2019
    Watfern C; Heck C; Rule C; Baldwin P; Boydell KM, 2019, 'Feasibility and acceptability of a mental health website for adults with an intellectual disability: Qualitative evaluation', Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12958
  • Preprints | 2024
    Watfern C; Carnemolla P, 2024, Inclusive Climate Action: A Scoping Review on the Representation and Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disability in Climate Change Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4015326/v1
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Wehbe A; Moad S-A; Tomaszewski P; Macdonald D; Watfern C; Scott L; Butler K; Thorburn K; Waks S; Fisher K; O’Shea P, 2021, 'Great expectations - inclusivity in disability research - policy meets practice', presented at Australian Social Policy Conference 2021, UNSW SPRC (online), 25 October 2021 - 05 November 2021, https://www.aspc.unsw.edu.au/4c-great-expectations-inclusivity-disability-research-policy-meets-practice
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Watfern C, 2019, 'A Supported Studio', presented at International Conference on The Arts in Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 June 2019 - 21 June 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Watfern C, 2019, 'Lisa Scott: Taking control through writing and making art', presented at Australian Society for Intellectual Disability Conference, Adelaide, 06 November 2019 - 08 November 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Heck C; Watfern C, 2018, 'Healthy Mind: An online easy read tool for building good mental health', presented at Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine Conference, Sydney, 06 September 2018 - 07 September 2018
    Preprints | 2018
    Watfern C; Heck C; Rule C; Baldwin P; Boydell KM, 2018, Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mental Health Website for Adults With an Intellectual Disability: Qualitative Evaluation (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.12958
    Conference Posters | 2018
    Watfern C; Mooney S; Anderson B, 2018, 'Shape Constancy and Symmetry', presented at Australian Psychological Society Congress, 27 September 2018 - 30 September 2018
    Creative Written Works | 2018
    Watfern C, 2018, Best friends going through a tunnel: Thom and Angelmouse, Overland Literary Journal, https://overland.org.au/2018/07/best-friends-going-through-a-tunnel-the-art-of-thom-and-angelmouse/
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Watfern C, 2018, 'Thom Roberts reads crowns', presented at AAANZ Conference, RMIT University, Melbourne, 05 December 2018 - 07 December 2018
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Watfern C, 2017, Space of Mind: An Interview with Dawn-Joy Leong, Runway: Australian Experimental Art, http://runway.org.au/space-of-mind-an-interview-with-dawn-joy-leong/
    Preprints |
    Watfern C; Triandafilidis Z; Vaughan P; Doran B; Dadich A; Disher-Quill K; Maple P; Hickman L; Elliot M; Boydell K, Coalescing/ Cross-Pollinating/ Crystalising: Developing and Evaluating an Art Installation about Health Knowledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4297616