Dr Katey Warran

Leverhulme Research Fellow; PATHS Research Group Lead

Biography

Background

I am an arts and health researcher and social scientist based in the School of Health in Social Science. I am currently the recipient of a Leverhulme-funded fellowship as well as Lead for the PATHS Research Group (Public Health, Arts, Theory, Sociology) and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia. In my fellowship, I am exploring the application of sociological theories to the field of 'arts and health', including co-authoring a book with Professor Norma Daykin on the Sociology of Arts and Health (Routledge, forthcoming). At ECRED, I lead a programme of work focusing on the arts and dementia in partnership with lived experience researchers.

Alongside my work at Edinburgh, I am also an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London where I was previously Deputy Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Arts & Health. At UCL, I have worked on a range of different arts and health research projects, including exploring dance for young people with anxiety (as Principal Investigator, funded by the UKRI), singing for those with postnatal depression (with the WHO), and singing for those affected by cancer. I am also interested in the application of research to policy. I have authored reports for the DCMS and Arts Council England and I am currently a Global Advisor to the Jameel Arts & Health Lab (partnership of WHO, New York University, and CultuRunners). Further, I am Vice Chair of the board for Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland (ACHWS), Co-Director of the Arts Play Health Community, and a member of the Research Committee at Scottish Ballet. I see myself as an interdisciplinary researcher who draws upon a range of disciplines in my work to examine the complex relationship between the arts and health.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Edinburgh, Sociology (AHRC funded)

MSc, Royal College of Music, Performance Science (Distinction)

BA (Hons), University of Sheffield, Philosophy and Biblical Studies

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