Health, Environment, and the ARTs (HEART) Research Center to Host Zine Making Workshops
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The UMass Amherst Health, Environment, and the ARTs (HEART) Research Center will host two Zine Making Workshops for faculty, staff, librarians, deans, and other campus leaders. The events will be held Monday, Aug. 26, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Tuesday, Aug. 27, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Design Building, room 270. The workshops will launch the center's work to bring interdisciplinary arts-based research to the fore at the university. Register here.
HEART is funded by Large-scale Integrative Research Awards (LIRA) from the Office of Research and Engagement. Led by Aline Gubrium (Health Promotion and Policy), the HEART team includes two HFA faculty members—Marla Miller (History) and Sandy Litchfield (Architecture)—as well as Sarah Goff (Health Promotion and Policy), Sally Pirie (Education), and Elizabeth Krause (Anthropology).
HEART aims to bring together accomplished investigators from across the university to develop innovative arts-based approaches to addressing health and environmental inequities. It activates and catalyzes existing expertise and energy from faculty who have been engaging in research and outreach that harnesses the power of the arts to address complex issues involving social determinants of health, such as access to high quality housing, education, safe neighborhoods, healthcare, transportation, healthy foods, and healthy living environments, all of which strongly influence health and wellbeing. The complex array of factors that make the societal challenges difficult to resolve require innovative research methods that aim to address both longstanding and emerging areas of health and environmental inequities.
This LIRA I project focuses on developing processes for working in a multi-disciplinary collaboration that will be the cornerstone of the HEART Center. The team’s aim is to focus on building the foundation of the interdisciplinary teams needed to successfully compete for funding and to develop the skills required to successfully compete for large external grants focused on center development.