‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers

2016

OHD

This dataset contains the full text transcripts from 15 semi-structured interviews (approximately 44,100 words) conducted during November and December 2014 with participants involved in various aspects of the process of health-related comics production. These participants are authors and publishers and their work is publicly recognised in the comics community. The dataset has been deposited in the Open Health Data Dataverse repository as a zipped folder containing 15 individual simple text files corresponding to each interview and a ReadMe file containing contextual information and other metadata. An initial domain analysis of the interviews was published as Farthing, A., & Priego, E.

Section: Reuse Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data from ‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers

Farthing

2016

OHD

“…Increased knowledge of comics might have some impact on how they are viewed as an academic resource in general, but items would still need to prove specific utility for the student population to be adopted as course material. One of the conclusions of our interviews with comics producers and distributors (Farthing and Priego, 2016a) was that, given the variety of material being produced, firmer links should be established between academia and comics authors and publishers so that potentially useful works aren't overlooked. This may also help creators and disseminators provide material that is more suited to the needs of specific domains.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This article, which is part of a wider study examining 'graphic medicine', presents the results of a study exploring the attitudes around comics and their use amongst staff and students at a mental health NHS Trust that has yet to utilise comics in its training programmes. A previously published article and dataset provided observations from interviews with comics creators and distributors (Farthing and Priego, 2016a;2016b).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers Remain: Perceptions and Uses of Comics by Mental Health and Social Care Library Users

Farthing

Open Library of Humanities

2020

“…There is still much to do in terms of enhancing knowledge exchange practices between comics and academic communities. Previous research has found that further efforts are needed to establish the processes, literacies and affordances required to forge stronger links between higher education and comics producers (Farthing and Priego 2016a).…”

Section: Further Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comics as Research, Comics for Impact: The Case of Higher Fees, Higher Debts

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

2016

Researchers have turned to comics as outputs incorporating their research findings. These comics are print and/or online publications that can lead to the wider adoption of research and enhance educational practices, widen public engagement, and improve the possibilities for research to influence public policy. This article presents an interview with Professor Katy Vigurs about Higher Fees, Higher Debts: Greater Expectations of Graduate Futures?, a comic based on a research report produced for the Society for Research into Higher Education (2016). In order to contextualize the interview, this article also provides an introduction to non-fiction comics research, and concludes with reflections on comics as a way of doing research. This article seeks to document and encourage further knowledge-exchange between the higher education sector and comics practitioners, and between researchers using comics in their research or as a means to disseminate their own research and those scholars who research comics as their main object of study.