Dr Gail Kenning
Gail Kenning is Senior Research Fellow at fEEL, Big Anxiety Research Centre, UNSW, co-founder of Skilled Companions and has an arts/design practice using psychosocial design, socially engaged practices, participatory engagement and co-design.
Lives/Works on
Gadigal Land | Sydney NSW
Professional role/s
Arts practitioner, Senior Research Fellow Research, Psychosocial designer
Affiliations
Big Anxiety Research Centre, fEEL (felt Experience and Empathy Lab, University of New South Wales, Ultimo Project, Research Fellow University of Technology Sydney
Arts
Visual arts, Film/Media Arts, Immersive media
Arts health role/s
Arts Health Practitioner/Program Facilitator, Professional Artist, Researcher, Socially engaged practitioner
Gail Kenning is Senior Research Fellow at fEEL (felt Experience and Empathy Lab), Big Anxiety Research Centre (BARC), UNSW, co-founder of Skilled Companions and has an arts/design practice using psychosocial design, socially engaged practices, participatory engagement and co-design.
She coproduced psychosocial immersive media and video projects including World Comes Alive launched at Tavistock/Portman NHS London June 2025, and was instrumental in the development of award winning Perinatal Dreaming, Space for Action, The visit, EmbodiMap and We’re just gonna call it all BPD.
She co-produced was lead researcher on To Whom I May Concern a performance in collaboration with Australian Chamber Orchestra and people living with dementia.
Her art practice focuses on exploring psychosocial experiences of mark-making. Her research/design practice focuses on older people, dementia, mental health and trauma. She has developed co-design and psychosocial practices involving participatory workshops, storytelling, creative making and arts-based discussion and use of Visual Matrix.
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