We’re delighted to share our Reading Bodies: Burnout, Overload and Resilience creative anthology, published in collaboration with Riptide Journal (2024). You can read the digital version as a flipbook and via our website here.
The volume presents fiction, poetry and artwork inspired by our research themes and explores how creativity can unlock different perspectives on burnout and resilience. For more information about this initiative, please visit our blog post about the creative workshop we held in June 2024.
Local artist Molly Saunders has illustrated the themes of our Reading Bodies creative workshop in preparation for our forthcoming anthology with Riptide Journal. We’re pleased to share the series of images that have resulted from this collaboration below:
Molly took part in our creative workshop on 14 June 2024, producing live illustrations as the basis for the final images. You can find more details about her work here.
Artist Katharine Howell has illustrated the Reading Bodies collaborative process with Riptide Journal, in preparation for our forthcoming anthology on Burnout, Overload and Resilience. We’re delighted to share her illustration below:
You can find more information about the artist here.
Thank you so much to our participants and speakers for joining our Creative Writing workshop on “Burnout, Overload, and Resilience,” held at the University of Exeter on June 14, 2024. The event was organised by Prof. Katharine Murphy (Principal Investigator for Reading Bodies), Dr. Sally Flint (Lecturer in Creative Writing), and Dr. Olivia Glaze (AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher) and we were thrilled to welcome such a diverse group to the event – which included teachers, entrepreneurs, NHS practitioners, yoga teachers, a live illustrator, academics, and postgraduate students.
Stethoscope, apple, laptop and plant on white background, top view. Doctor workplace
By Dr Daniele Carrieri, Lecturer in Public Health, University of Exeter, and Project Partner for Reading Bodies
Inpreparation for our creative workshop on burnout and resilience, Dr Daniele Carrieri explores research perspectives on related workplace issues.For more information about this research theme, please visit our Resources page.
Introduction
I have come across, but never investigated, the term ‘quiet quitting’. This creative writing workshop on burnout, overload and resilience offers an excellent opportunity to start filling this gap in my research on mental ill-health and wellbeing in a high-stress work context: healthcare.[1] Quiet quitting is newer and possibly less known than ‘burnout’, ‘stress’ or’ resilience’. It also has some evocative potential – which I hope will inspire creating thinking and writing. I believe there is a poetic flare in ‘quiet quitting’ (perhaps also due to its alliteration?), as well as echoes of cultural references such as Thoreau’s ‘quiet desperation’ (Thoreau, ed. 2006), or, more recently, the introversion highlighted by Cain in her book ‘Quiet’ (Cain, 2013).
Award-winning creator of graphic novels and former UK Comics Laureate 2019-21, Hannah Berry, has collaborated with Reading Bodies to illustrate our research theme of Burnout, Overload and Resilience.
We are looking forward to the third in our series of project workshops for Reading Bodies, hosted by the University of Exeter on 14 June 2024. This creative writing workshop on the theme of Burnout, Overload and Resilience, will be introduced by researchers in Languages, Public Health and Psychology, and led by Dr Sally Flint, a specialist in Creative Writing. A reminder of practical information and what to bring can be found in our flyer below. We invite submissions of writing and illustrations for publication in Riptide Journal.
