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Catherine Baker
Dr Catherine Baker is a Reader in Art and Health at Birmingham City University (BCU), UK. Based at Birmingham School of Art, she founded and co-leads the Material Encounters Research Cluster. Her PhD work involved working with neuroscientists with whom she shared an interest in the neurobiology of the eye and perceptual encounter.
Since 2010 her research has become more focused on the impact of art practice in clinical contexts. Baker is currently Principal Investigator leading a multi-partnered interdisciplinary project exploring environment and embodiment, and health/well-being in relation to Adolescent Scoliosis with British Scoliosis Research Foundation. She has recently led a Special Section for world-leading journal Leonardo with Neuropsychologist Professor Iain Gilchrist on the process of interdisciplinary collaboration across the Arts, Sciences and Humanities.
Baker is a reviewer on many interdisciplinary and drawing related journals and has published a number of articles and book chapters and she has exhibited her work in the UK and internationally.
