Public Information Comics
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 52033038
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- University of Dundee
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The ‘Public Information Comics’ project develops
Herd’s research into comics as collaborative creative
practice, autobiography and life narratives, as told
in comic form. Herd has been a key member of the
multi-disciplinary Scottish Centre for Comics Studies
(SCCS) team at University of Dundee since the
inception of the project in 2016, as workshop lead,
artist, script writer editor, and production designer.
Herd’s research examines authorial truth/fiction games
within autobiography, and how stories are shaped
and ‘fictionalised’ through repetition. The performative
aspect of autobiographical comic creation also
informs his workshops and the DEECap project.
The primary research methodology, the ‘Comics Jam’
facilitated by Herd, involves working with adults with
learning difficulties, young people with experience
of bereavement (including young offenders), and
nursing students to encourage comic-making as a
valuable method to tell their individual stories. Many
participants have not drawn since childhood, so initial
workshops are based on the ABCD methodology of
creating comics. Workshops are designed to allow
participants genuine control over the finished product
through narrative and character creation, thus
empowering and endowing a sense of agency to
those with different expertise and perspectives.
Herd has presented the research at the Performing
and Picturing Patienthood symposium at London
College of Communication (2019) and in Studies
in Comics, ‘Comics Jam: Creating healthcare and
science communication comics –A sprint co-design
methodology’.
Fibromyalgia and Us has been downloaded over
13,000 times in over 75 countries and featured on
US-based healthcare website The Mighty and on
BBC and local radio and was praised in an Early Day
Motion in the UK Parliament in 2019. In October 2020,
Herd, along with two other project leaders, edited a
special edition of Studies in Comics journal on the
theme of ‘Comics and Education’, which featured the
SCCS ‘Public Information Comics’ project.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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