Creative Fellowship

Creative practice is embedded within the Health and Climate Narratives Taskforce as part of how we explore, question and communicate the complex relationship between climate and health.

Paul Hine, an award-winning creative practitioner and CEO and co-founder of Made By Mortals, has joined the Taskforce as a Creative Fellow. Paul has more than 20 years’ experience using storytelling, participatory arts and lived experience to explore complex health and social challenges, working with communities, researchers, policymakers, NHS organisations and local authorities.

Rather than bringing creativity in only at the point of communicating findings, Paul will work alongside Taskforce members throughout the process. He will use creative facilitation and narrative practice to support the Taskforce sessions, help make complex evidence accessible, encourage different perspectives and explore new ways of capturing the knowledge and ideas that emerge.

His role reflects the Taskforce’s ambition to bring different forms of knowledge and expertise together. Creative and arts-based approaches can help create space for more expansive, emotional and empathetic forms of collaboration, particularly when people are working across disciplinary and organisational boundaries.

Paul will also act as a creative mirror to the Taskforce — listening, reflecting and finding creative ways to capture its conversations, tensions and emerging thinking. This work will ultimately inform a creative commission to sit alongside the Taskforce’s final report, opening up its findings and recommendations to wider audiences in new and engaging ways.

The fellowship is deliberately experimental. It will help us understand what becomes possible when creative practice is embedded within an interdisciplinary research process from the outset — and how this approach might inform future ways of working across the Net Positive Centre.