Jill Bennett

Viv & Friends

With a view to improving the lives of people living with dementia, UNSW researchers have come up with a world-first: an AI driven companion.

Festival of Care

A festival of arts-based interventions offers techniques to enhance the mental health and wellbeing of hospital staff.

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Art meets mental health in an immersive art project co-designed with people with lived experience of trauma from regional, rural and remote areas.

Jill Bennett

Jill Bennett’s research plays a unique role in a new NHMRC-funded centre and the mental health care ecosystem.

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The second Big Anxiety Festival, a world-leading initiative of UNSW Sydney and other organisations that uses the arts to promote mental health, has received new support from the state government.

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UNSW's groundbreaking The Big Anxiety festival, which used the arts to promote understanding of mental heath, was the nation's best event in its very first year. And there's more to come in 2019.

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UNSW researchers are merging art and technology in an interactive event for the Vivid Festival that aims to better understand what causes anxiety.

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An exhibition of new media art curated by two COFA academics examines aesthetic responses to modern-day disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, war and environmental catastrophes.