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Prof Erminia Colucci

Prof in Visual Psychology & Cultural & Global Mental Health

Erminia Colucci

  • School Faculty of Science and Technology

  • Department Psychology

  • Location London

Research activities

Prof Colucci has led and co-lead a range of mental health and suicide prevention mixed-methods or qualitative (including arts-based/visual) research and public engagement project mainly in Low-and-Middle-Income countries and among asylum seeking and refugee populations.听

See听for a list of publications and recent grant awards including those listed below.听

Her arts-based/visual projects can also be found in听

Current:

2024-ongoing: UKRI AHRC 鈥楥o-creating asset and place-based approaches to tackling refugee and migrant health exclusion鈥� (36 mo, 拢2,430,127, Co-I)

2023-ongoing: British Academy International award 鈥榃riting Workshops on Qualitative and Visual Mental Health Research in Ghana and Indonesia鈥� (24 mo, 拢29.940, PI)

2023-ongoing: AHRC Research Networking 鈥淒eveloping a network for mutual learning on the potential of creative arts for mental health advocacy and activism in Ghana and Indonesia鈥� (12 mo, 拢97,036, Co-I)

2023-ongoing: Colucci, E. AHRC Research Networking 鈥淒eveloping a network for mutual learning on the potential of creative arts for mental health advocacy and activism in Ghana and Indonesia鈥� (18 mo, 拢97,036, Co-I)

2020-2024: Co-I MRC 鈥淎 Youth Culturally-adapted Manual Assisted Psychological therapy (Y-CMAP) for adolescent Pakistani patients with a recent history of self-harm鈥� (36 mo, 拢1,005.739, Co-I and Qualitative stream lead)

2020-2024: UKRI Future leaders 鈥楶roject dldl/釈滇垗釈滇垗: Bridging religious studies, gender & development and public health to address domestic violence in religious communities鈥� (Official mentor, 48 mo)听

Under review:

British Academy Conference Grant 鈥榁isual Psychology: The art of using visual methodologies for mental health research鈥� (拢21,761.55, PI)

NIHR Global Health Group on self-harm/suicide reduction amongst young people in South-Asia (拢 2.999.582, Co-I)

Southeast Asia-UK partnership for improving perinatal mental health (SEAP-PMH) (拢 1.057.271, Co-I)

Australia Research Council 听鈥楽uicide among young refugees: What sociocultural factors matter to them?鈥�

EU-COST network on Youth Suicide Prevention (3 years, EU600.000)


Current Teaching

Prof. Colucci has developed and leads courses, and teaches, at under- and postgraduate levels. See a list of current courses below.

Co-lead:

-PSY3058 VISUAL PSYCHOLOGY: ARTS, FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN PSYCHOLOGY

-PSY3056 SOCIAL, CULTURAL & COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH

-PSY4223 TRAUMA IMPACTS AND INTERVENTIONS

Other modules:

PSY1115 CHANGING THE WORLD WITH PSYCHOLOGY

PSY3330 DISSERTATION

PSY1020 MIND AND BEHAVIOUR IN CONTEXT

PSY3024 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

PSY4045 RESEARCH IN APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

PSY4035 RESEARCH: PRACTICE AND REPORTING

PSY4222 ADVANCED PSYCHOLOGY DISSERTATION

Prof Colucci also supervises PhD/Doctoral students at 果冻传媒 University and the partner Metanoia Institute, and NIMHANS- National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences.


Biography

Erminia Colucci is Professor of Visual Psychology and Cultural & Global Mental Health in the Department of Psychology at 果冻传媒 University London (UK) and Adjunct Professor at Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia). Her main area of research are human rights and mental health, suicide and suicide prevention, domestic violence against women and children, spirituality and faith-based/traditional healing, and first-hand stories of people with lived-experience of 鈥榤ental illness鈥� and suicidal behaviour, with a focus on low-middle-income countries, ethnic minorities and refugee populations. Erminia is passionate about using arts-based and visual methodologies, particularly participatory visual methods and ethnographic film-documentary, in her research, teaching and advocacy activities. Her applied research has influenced policy and practice in several countries, including Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines. Erminia is the founder of , Aperture (the first Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Documentary Festival), and Co-chair of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry

Erminia鈥檚 work has received several awards including the International Association for Suicide Prevention Andrej Marusic Award, which is dedicated to innovative research among young researchers. Recently she was also awarded a Rotary International prize for her ethnographic documentary about human rights and mental health 'Breaking the chains' () and her latest ethnographic documentaries from the project also received several prizes and awards.

Publications