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HomeStaff profilesDr Tom Baugh

Dr Tom Baugh

Head of Art

Thomas is the Head of Art at Falmouth University. Thomas situates his artistic research across the field of art practice, medical humanities and the social sciences. His artwork explores methods of making manifest equivalent experiences of disorder through methods associated with cinematographic projection and performance, in the context of installation art. 

Thomas's art practice serves to strengthen the research, which currently exists in medical fields surrounding the concept of disorder and diagnosis. In doing so the artistic research aims to provide health professionals and the general public with accessible information about disorder and diagnosis that can be used to plan services, support research studies and public health campaigns to reduce stigma, increase self-efficacy and generate improvements in mental health.  
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EmailTom.Baugh@falmouth.ac.uk
  • Qualifications
  • Research Interests
  • Research Students
  • Teaching
  • Professional engagement

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    YearQualificationAwarding body
    2015
    PhD Fine Art
    University of Plymouth
    2016
    PGCAP
    University of Plymouth
    2010
    MA Fine Art
    University of Plymouth
    1999
    BA Fine Art
    University of Plymouth

    Honours and awards

    YearDescription
    2015

    Fine art residency award, Ocean Studios, Plymouth.

    Membership of external committees

    • Association for Medical Humanities
    • British Society of Aesthetics

    Research Interests

    Research interests and expertise

    • 2021: Plymouth Contemporary Judge 
    • 2020: Film screening and paper - “Dialogues of disorder – a conversation with Mel and Nicky; understanding obsessive compulsive disorder and self-injury through filmic projection. Making Space Association Medical Humanities, Limerick University, Ireland.
    • 2020: ECR Research strand leader for Arts and Medical humanities, UOP.
    • 2020: Seminar and test screening of the film “Understanding Disorder”, at the Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities Conference, University of Kent, Aesthetics research centre.
    • 2019: Conference chair: “Stereotypes & storytelling, research strategies for arteducation”, ASP Katowice, Poland
    • 2019: Paper: “Understanding Obsessive-compulsive disorder, through artistic intervention" Existential Medical Humanities, Centre for Studies in PracticalKnowledge, Södertörn University, Sweden.
    • 2019: Conference paper and film screening: “Body as object: equivalence through enactment”. Material Medicine: Objects and Bodies, Association for MedicalHumanities, University of Plymouth
    • 2018: Conference paper: “Known, (Unknowns)”, presented as part of the second Parallax forum 'Art, Society and Political Correctness
    • 2018: Exhibition: "Prawo Serii: Agency of Error”. Strefart Gallery, Tychy, Polan
    • 2017: Artist in Residence - Katowice Academy of Fine Art, Poland
    • 2017: Conference paper, ‘Research through Practice, issues of the art academy’, Katowice Academy of Fine Art, Poland, presented as part of the “First ParallaxForum”
    • 2017: ‘Appropriate Movement’, Film screening, Exeter Art Week, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
    • 2016: ‘Pouching’, Film screening, Plymouth Art Weekender, Mills Bakery, RoyalWilliam Yard, Plymouth
    • 2014: Conference paper, ‘Trans Remembering, or Trans Memory’, Trans-art festival, Berlin
    • 2014: Publication - ‘Trans Remembering, or Trans Memory’, Else Journal.
    • 2013: Artist in Residence’– Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth


    Research topics

    • Equivalence
    • Mimicry
    • Medical Humanities
    • Social sciences
    • Disorder
    • Diagnosis

    Research Students

    Current research students

    Karen Abadie: Humanity Undone – a practice-led enquiry into self-injury. University of Plymouth
    Sally Charlesworth. A research into the value of practice led workshops within the primary art arts curriculum.University of Plymouth
    Dan McFadden. Uncovering the characteristics of bipolar disorder; articulating the intricate perceptual and somatic values embedded in the embodied behaviour. University of Plymouth
    Duncan Cameron. Anachronistic collecting: artistic practice and memory-work in post-digital times. University of Plymouth
    Emma Bush. Memoir, Materiality and the intimate encounter. University of Plymouth

    Previous student supervision

    Laura Hopes. Being Vulnerable; distances of the Sublime Anthopocene. University of Plymouth

    Number of research students supervised to completion

    1

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Projection
    • sound
    • Expanded Sculpture
    • Installation practices

    Courses taught

    • BA(Hons) Fine Art
    • BA(Hons) Drawing

    Professional engagement

    Engagement with professional associations and societies

    Association for Medical Humanities 
    British society of Aesthetics 
    Fellow HEA

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