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Dr Elle Whitcroft

Dr Elle Whitcroft (PhD)

Research Assistant
E: e.whitcroft@bsms.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: LGBTQ+ Public Health, Creative Methods, Qualitative Research

Research areas: Creative Methods, Intergenerational Impact, LGBTQ+ Public Health

Biography

Dr Elle Whitcroft is a researcher in the Department of Education & Primary care at Brighton & Sussex Medical School. An interdisciplinary researcher across the humanities and public health, she teaches across qualitative research methods, creative methodologies, visual culture, and public health. In her role at BSMS, Dr Whitcroft teaches and supports a number of research papers on improving transgender healthcare in the UK.

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Research

Dr Elle Whitcroft completed her PhD at Sussex University in 2023 in the Media, Arts, Humanities Department. Her thesis was entitled ‘Re-contextualizing Winsor McCay’s “Little Nemo in Slumberland”: Picturing Race, Immigration, and Childhood in Newspaper Comic Strips’, which explores political rhetoric in comic strips and newspapers.

Following this, Elle won a UKRI Healthy Longevity Global Competition grant of £50,637 to act as Principal Investigator of the Between LGBTQ+ Generations project, a research and wellbeing intervention that used creative arts to connect LGBTQ+ intergenerational communities. Elle is a member of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing.

Elle’s research interests include bringing together creative arts, arts engagement, and other participant-centred methods to better understand LGBTQ+ intergenerational connection and healthy ageing. Her research spans across visual arts, public health, and the humanities.

Teaching

In the Autumn 2024 term, Elle will teach creative methodologies across Research Methods modules at BSMS.