Dr Teri Howson-Griffiths
Liverpool Screen School
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: T.R.HowsonGriffiths@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 6556
Teri (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer whose work centres on arts and health practices, focused on utilising applied approaches to support and improve individual and community well-being.
Teri is currently on a three-year, part-time 0.6 FTE secondment working 3 days for the North Wales Health Board as the Arts in Health Strategic Lead, where she is engaged in the development, planning, commissioning, and advocating for arts-based approaches within health and wellbeing. Alongside this, she maintains a 0.4 FTE part-time role within the Drama programme team.
She joined LJMU as a Lecturer in Drama in 2017. Prior to this, she was a Research Officer on Dementia and Imagination, a UK wide AHRC funded study looking at the potential of visual arts for people living with dementia. She graduated with her PhD in 2016 which was a practice-led study on the therapeutic potential of immersive theatres to augment personal well-being, focusing on sensory labyrinth theatre and other forms of immersive practice to better understand audience experiences, supervised by Professor Kate Taylor-Jones. This involved practice-led and qualitative audience research explored partially through the creation of two immersive performances.
Degrees
2016, Bangor University, Wales, UK, PhD
2009, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK, MA
2006, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK, BA (Hons)
Certifications
2018, Advance HE, Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
Academic appointments
Research Officer, Dementia Services Development Centre, Wales, School of Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University, 2014 - 2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University, 2010 - 2014
Journal article
Howson-Griffiths T. 2024. Beyond spectacle: inadvertent and intentional use of the mundane in immersive theatres Performance Research: A journal of the performing arts, 28 :100-110 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Howson-Griffiths TR. 2019. Locating sensory labyrinth theatre within immersive theatres history Studies in Theatre and Performance, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Hogarth SE, Bramley E, Howson-Griffiths T. 2018. Immersive Worlds: an exploration of how performers facilitate the Three Worlds in Immersive Performance Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 9 :189-202 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Windle G, Joling K, Howson-Griffiths TR, Woods B, Jones C, van de ven P, Newman A, Parkinson C. 2018. The impact of a visual arts program on quality of life, communication and well-being of people living with dementia: A mixed-methods longitudinal investigation. International Psychogeriatrics, 30 :409-423 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Windle G, Howson-Griffiths TR, Newman A, Goulding A, Gregory S, O'Brien D. 2017. Exploring the theoretical foundations of visual art programmes for people living with dementia Dementia, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Howson T. 2015. Zombies, time machines and brains: Science fiction made real in immersive theatres Thesis Eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, 131 :114-126 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Newman A, Baber M, O Brien D, Goulding A, Jones CH, Howson T, Jones C, Parkinson C, Taylor K, Tischler V, Windle G. Carrying out research across the arts and humanities and social sciences: developing the methodology for Dementia and Imagination Cultural Trends, 25 :218-232 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Poster
Howson-Griffiths T. 2023. Arts in Health and Wellbeing: Developing an arts, health and wellbeing strategy for the North Wales Health Board region ETC- European Public Health Promotion Concha Colomer Symposium 2023 Public Url
Howson-Griffiths TR, Windle G. 2014. Dementia and Imagination Understanding Art in Dementia Friendly Communities. Poster presentation at the Connected Communities Festival, June 2015.
Chapters
Newman A, Davenport B, Howson-Griffiths T. 2018. Narrative identity and resilience for people in later life with dementia living in care homes: The role of visual arts enrichment activities Resilience and Ageing: Creativity, Culture and Community :87-110 Policy Press 9781447340911 DOI Publisher Url
Newman A, Davenport B, Howson-Griffiths T. 2018. Narrative identity and resilience for people in later life with dementia living in care homes: the role of visual arts enrichment activities Resilience and Ageing :87-110 Policy Press 9781447340911 DOI Publisher Url
Newman A, Davenport B, Howson-Griffiths T. 2018. Narrative identity and resilience for people in later life with dementia living in care homes: the role of visual arts enrichment activities :87-110 Bristol University Press DOI Publisher Url
Newman A, Davenport B, Howson-Griffiths T. 2018. Narrative identity and resilience for people in later life with dementia living in care homes: the role of visual arts enrichment activities Resilience and Ageing :87-110 Policy Press 9781447340911 DOI Publisher Url
Artefact
Irving A, McNeill E, Howson-Griffiths T. 2017. Lost and Found Labyrinth
Howson T. 2015. ‘Fragments from two sensory performances: The College on the Hill (2011) and When Autumn Passed Me By (2014). Presented at the TAPRA conference practice as research gallery, 2015
Internet publication
Howson-Griffiths TR, Windle G. 2017. Arts and science combine for dementia care Publisher Url Public Url
Other
Howson T. 2017. Reflections on connecting communities through the arts - presentation at Dementia and Imagination end of project conference, 31st January 2017
Carter L, Howson T. 2016. #Dementiafutures imagining dementia friendly futures through community creativity. Presentation at the Connected Communities Utopia Conference, December 2016.
Howson T, Windle G, Hedd Jones C. 2016. Dementia and Imagination: qualitative research findings from a visual art and dementia study. Presentation at Alzheimer's Europe conference November 2016.
Howson T. 2016. From research to practice: Public engagement in the Dementia and Imagination research study. Presentation at the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR) conference, October 2015.
Hedd Jones C, Howson T. 2016. Dementia and Imagination: an overview of a visual arts and dementia research study. Presentation at the The Art of Health in Wales Symposium, The All Wales Arts Health & Wellbeing Network, 21.05.2016.
Howson T. 2015. Participant engagement across the researcher encounter: a case study from the Dementia & Imagination study. Presentation at Living well with Dementia through the Arts:Celebrating creativity for people living with dementia in North Wales symposium. 21.04.2015.
Howson T. 2013. 'Well being practices in sensory performance', presentation at Well-Being Conference, Birmingham City University, 24 July 2013
Howson T, Howson-Griffiths TR. Sensory, Sensual and Questionable Interactions: Distinguishing theatrical and aesthetic forms in immersive theatre - conference presentation, TAPRA conference 2013
Books (edited)
2016. Imagining Dementia Friendly Futures: Activity by Dementia and Imagination for the Connected Communities 2016 festival Howson TR. E-Publi Author Url
Book review
Howson TR. 2015. Cinema of the dark side, atrocity and the ethics of spectatorship. Transnational Cinemas, 6 :209-211 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Performance
Griffiths M, Egerton G, Howson-Griffiths TR. Codex: the well of lost plots
McNeill E, Howson-Griffiths T, Irving A. The Tangled Veil and the Cloud of Unknowing - LOL
Conference publication
Howson-Griffiths TR, McNeill E, Irving A. Utilising humour through participatory arts practice to explore living well with dementia British Society of Gerontology 47th Annual Conference
Howson T. The Senses in Performance: utilising audience response to identify therapeutic affect in Immersive Theatre’, methods and findings 43rd Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology
Howson T, Howson-Griffiths TR. Process versus outcome? Considering different approaches to the production of art made by people living with dementia in a visual arts intervention 45th Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology
Hedd Jones C, Howson-Griffiths T. The impact life cycle of Dementia and Imagination
Lopes Ramos J, Maravala P-J, Howson-Griffiths T. Arts & Health: touch, empathy & simulation PSi29 Publisher Url
Solga K, Gallagher K, Lu J, Howson-Griffiths T, Hall L, Charise A, Poli A, Kouznetsova M. Leading With Performance: Interdisciplinary Arts-Led Innovations Inside the Neoliberal University Staging Justice/ Mettre en Scene La Justice Publisher Url
Howson-Griffiths T. Arts in Health overview/ Mental Health focus across BCUHB Patiently Friendly Mental Health Services: what does good look like? Publisher Url
ruddle N, shepley A, Goddard H, Howson-Griffiths T. EMBEDDING THE ARTS INTO REGIONAL AND LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS Weave/ Gwehyddu Arts & Mental Health Conference Publisher Url
External collaboration:
Arts in Health, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. 2025
Research Grants Awarded:
Duration of research project: 1 year, Grant value (£): 1894, HEFCE QR funding, Alex Irving LJMU and Elaien McNeill LJMU and Densie Parker LJMU, ‘On Cloud 79’: challenging the stigma of dementia for people living with dementia and their supporting communities through comedy performance. 2018
Grant value (£): £10000, Arts Council England, Elaine McNeill, Alex Irving, Monkey Minds, Research and Development of 'The Tangled Veil and the Cloud of Unknowing’ - a performance challenging the stigma of people living with dementia. 2018
Duration of research project: 9 months, Grant value (£): 1939, HEFCE QR Funding, Elaine McNeill LJMU, Alex Irving LJMU, Lost and found – using humour to foster positive well-being for people living with dementia and their supporting communities. 2018
Duration of research project: 1 year, Grant value (£): 500, British Society of Gerontology, Elaine McNeill LJMU, Alex Irving LJMU, Co-designed Dementia Labyrinth. 2017
Duration of research project: 10 months, Grant value (£): £19905.40, AHRC Connected Communities, Connected Communities festival 2016, Dementia and Imagination: connecting communities and developing well-being through socially engaged visual arts practice.. 2016
Duration of research project: 6 months, Grant value (£): £9,300, AHRC Connected Communities, Dr Catrin Hedd Jones, Bangor University, Connected Communities festival 2015, Dementia and Imagination: connecting communities and developing well-being through socially engaged visual arts practice.. 2015
Teaching qualification:
Fellowship Higher Education Academy. 2018