CLAIRE HOOKER
Claire Hooker is Associate Professor in Health and Medical Humanities at Sydney Health Ethics and President of the Arts Health Network NSW/ACT.
Lives/Works on
Gundungerra, Dharug and Gadigal Country | Camperdown, NSW
Professional role/s
Director, Health Humanities
Affiliations
University of Sydney, CREATE Research Centre
Arts
Drama/Theatre
Arts health role/s
Advocacy/Policy maker; Researcher
Claire Hooker is Associate Professor in Health and Medical Humanities at Sydney Health Ethics and President of the Arts Health Network NSW/ACT.
Claire’s research centres a practice of listening to and honouring the perspectives and expertises of different knowledge holders and knowledge users, in order to create spaces where people from different backgrounds and disciplines can work together to improve health. Her current research focuses particularly on the role and impact of arts and culture in disaster management and in values and ethics in arts and health and in risk communication. With the Sydney Arts and Health Collective, she created the verbatim theatre play Grace Under Pressure, which has been performed widely in hospitals to improve healthcare workplace culture.