Author Archives: Ash Watson

2 February 2021 It is summer in Sydney and we at the Vitalities Lab are back in the office for another new year. After some collective downtime we have hit the ground running, riding the ripple effects of our globally tumultuous 2020 and beginning to make sense of the post-COVID world. One phenomenon that hasContinue reading “Vitalities Lab Newsletter 10 Summer 2021”

Over the past few weeks, the Vitalities Lab has gone digital. Working from home due to the COVID-19 lockdown, we’ve slid (not without friction) into new workweek routines — progressing existing research projects, commencing new data collection, and collaborating in our analysis and writing. Like many are doing with family, friends, and colleagues, we video-callContinue reading “Our Digital Workspace”

Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment is a critical feminist arts/research workshop series (and zine!) lead by myself (Ash Watson, postdoc with the Vitalities Lab) and my colleagues Laura Rodriguez Castro (Griffith Uni) and Samantha Trayhurn (WSU). We have run four workshops since late 2018: at Monash University in Melbourne, at Griffith University in Brisbane, at theContinue reading “Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment workshop”