Art-Based Research Community Webinar

Creative dissemination: forms of sharing knowledge

Speakers: Erin la Cour & Roman Giling

Date: May 7th, 2026

Time: 15:00-17:00

Location: Online (Zoom)

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How can artistic forms translate research insights across disciplines, institutions, and publics?

Art-based media such as graphic novels, film, and performance can convey patient experiences and research insights in ways that are not only intellectually compelling, but also affective, sensory, and relational. In healthcare research especially, creative dissemination can open up other ways of knowing and sharing—making space for complexity, ambiguity, embodiment, and emotion.

This ARC webinar session explores how artistic forms communicate across different audiences and settings, from academia and healthcare institutions to wider publics. What becomes visible when research is disseminated through visual, narrative, or performative forms? What kinds of understanding do these media make possible that conventional academic formats may struggle to hold? And what risks arise when lived experience is translated into publicly circulating creative work?

Together, we will reflect on key questions surrounding authorship, collaboration, and representation, as well as the demands of scientific validity and ethical responsibility. The session will consider how researchers and artists can work carefully with emotion, privacy, and nuance when sharing knowledge through creative forms.

The webinar features two speakers whose work engages directly with these questions from different perspectives. Erin la Cour works at the intersection of comics studies, graphic medicine, and the medical humanities, with a particular focus on how comics can contribute to healthcare training, practice, and dissemination. Roman Giling is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker whose work explores how visual methodologies and film can help research engage with and convey patient experience.

This session will be of interest to researchers, artists, healthcare professionals, and students working with art-based, participatory, and creative approaches to research and dissemination.

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Speakers

Erin la Cour is Associate Professor in Literature at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on comics, especially Graphic Medicine, as expressive and critical tools for healthcare communication and the medical humanities. She currently leads the ERC Consolidator Grant Where are the Humanities in the Medical Humanities: How Comics Can Improve Healthcare Training, Practice, and Dissemination (2024–2029), co-edited Graphic Medicine with Anna Poletti, and is co-founder and co-director of Amsterdam Comics and Graphic Medicine Europe.

Roman Giling is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker, and a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work combines qualitative research, visual practices, and cinematography to bridge art and the social sciences, with a focus on how visual methodologies can contribute to research on and the conveyance of patient experience. He is also author of the 2025 BMJ Medical Humanities article, The art of conveying an experience: A visual anthropological approach to understand how film can convey patient experience.

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