Research interests

• Health humanities (Arts for Health or Creative Health)  
• Drawing and arts-based making for sense-making 
• Identity construction and Selfhood
• Embodied cognition and Embodiment 
• Communities of practice 

Current research

For her PhD, “Elucidating perceptions of ageing through participatory drawing”, Curie’s The major contributions included a novel drawing methodology and analytical tool underpinned by phenomenography. She found that engaging with intuitive and generative mark-making helped people move from habit-driven ways of thinking to embodied and transformational thinking. This has enabled her to provide consultancy using her generative drawing process for organisational development, coaching conversations, research writing and academic resilience. She has produced a white paper on “The DNA of Personal Effectiveness” and designed a research mentoring scheme for Knowledge Exchange. 

As a Health humanities scholar, Curie is on the Advisory Board of the International Health Humanities Network and has produced online resources such as Research Method space interview on phenomenography. Her commissioned research-based book, ‘Drawing for Health and Wellbeing’ is part of an ‘Arts for Health’ book series and brings drawing research directly to the public. Currently, Curie is writing up PhD findings as several chapters and articles as well as co-editing a drawing for health book for researchers and practitioners and co-authoring a book on drawing for graphic facilitation. 

Curie is an award-winning educator and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE for her leadership and management experience at local, national and international level. Her expertise is in drawing and arts-based making for cognition. She has taught on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules over twenty years. Her experience includes module leadership; Masters Level programme director; an equality, diversity and inclusion liaison role for students who disclosed disabilities; peer reviewer; external examiner; admissions tutor; quality assurance and governance roles. She is a Creative HE champion, peer reviewer for Higher Education, supervises various Masters students on programmes such as Education; Organisational Development and Diabetes Management  

Subject disciplines covered include:  

• Medicine: problem-based learning modules for graduate medical students; guest speaker for creative health modules  
• Education: curriculum design; educational philosophy and psychology; learning design; online design, universal learning design,  
• Leadership and Management: Core Strengths trainer, coaching training for managers; change management 
• Health Education: Long Term Health Conditions; Acute Care; Anatomy and Physiology; Pathophysiology and Pharmacology; Professionalism; Research Skills BSc dissertation supervision. 

Curie Scott joined the University in 2023. Her unusual ‘double doctor’ status, as a medical doctor with a doctorate in drawing for thinking, offers credibility across Science and Arts disciplines. She has 20 years lecturing experience and three years as an independent consultant and coach within the Education, Health and Business sectors.  

Prior to her academic career, she worked as a medical doctor in London teaching hospitals. She taught health professional students for 15 years before becoming the programme director for an Education Masters which included leading the PGCert in Education. After an MSc here at Southampton in Educational Practice and Innovation she won a competitive scholarship for an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Brighton.  

She has gained funding to live in Brazil for a month to explore nurse education practice, visit in Brazil, run international workshops and international conference presentations. She is on the advisory board of the Health Humanities Network; an invited speaker for the Thinking Through Drawing conference; and was on the organising committee of the International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education. She enjoyed being on television, on Make Craft Britain, a programme all about Making. She launched ‘Drawing Edges’, bringing drawing practitioners, academics and researchers together to debate all things ‘drawing’ who also exhibited in a pop-up exhibition alongside the prestigious Jerwood Drawing Prize.