Ruth Gibbons

Ruth's  work and research focuses on collaborative practice to explore everyday experiences from a variety of different perspectives. Her current focus includes new research into movement and neurodivergence across different age groups and will include working with DYSPLA from the UK thanks to funding from the British Arts Council.  She has also created a course for neurodivergent students with a variety of tools to help with managing university N@U which launches March 2025. 

 

Ruth's Publications:

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Evocation as Embodied Stories in Woven layers: Exploring Intersubjectivity through Film, Animation, Graphics and Sound

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Dyslexia/Dislexia/Dislexea/Dyslixia/DyslixeaL  Whats in a name?

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Gibbons, R. (2018). Metaphors-of-knowing: Exploring Sense Consciousness Through Art. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 15(1).

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Gibbons, R. (2016). " It's all of these puzzle pieces": the representation and the manifest discourse of dyslexic experience: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand (Doctoral dissertation, Massey University).

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'Just let me be dysleXic' (2020) Art Exhibition Franklin Arts Centre

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Gibbons, R. (2013). Hypertextual self-scapes: Crossing the barriers of the skin. In 40th anniversary of studies in symbolic interaction (Vol. 40, pp. 15-42). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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​Gibbons, R. E. A. (2010). A table of metaphors: the visual representation of chronic illness: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand (Doctoral dissertation, Massey University).

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