O’Brien, C. (2022). Materiality and the Mind: The Impact of Object Handling Sessions on the Wellbeing of Young Adults. In E. Prezioso & M. Giobbe (Eds.), Innovative Approaches to Archaeology: Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology At Oxford Conference 2020. (pp. 17–27). BAR Publishing.
Coming Soon/Accepted:
O'Brien, C. (2023). It’s just nice not to be on screens’: Exploring the Relationship Between Pottery Making, Eudemonic Wellbeing, and Instagram. Leisure Studies. DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2023.2218600
O’Brien, C. and Malafouris, L. (2023). Feeling How: MET and Embodied Cognition in the Learning of Pottery Skills. In Groth, C. and Nimkulrat, N. (Eds.) Craft and Design Practice from an Embodied Perspective. Routledge.
April 2023: ASA An Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode: I presented a paper entitled: Crafting the Self Online Identity, belonging, and social connectedness in online pottery communities.
March 2023: Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival Conference: Visual anthropology and speculative futures. I chaired and panel on: Is the future of fieldwork digital? Digital ethnography beyond the pandemic. Here I presented the paper: Accessing the Studio Online: Discussing Sensory Access in Video Interviews with Potters
March 2022: Graduate Archaeology at Oxford: Art in Archaeology- Production, Transmission, Reception. University of Oxford: I presented a paper entitled: Covid, Clay and the Digital: Investigating the role of learning resources and digital sociality in the development of pottery skills during the Covid-19 pandemic in Britain.
October 2021: The Royal Anthropological Institute and The Folklore Society Symposium: Creativity during the Covid lockdown: Life and Renewal During the Pandemic. I presented a paper entitled: Covid, Clay and the Digital: Investigating the role of learning resources and digital sociality in the development of pottery skills during the Covid-19 pandemic in Britain.
January 2021: Graduate Archaeology at Oxford: Innovative Approaches to Archaeology Conference, University of Oxford: I presented an alternative version of Materiality and the Mind: the impact of object handling sessions on the wellbeing of young adults.
April 2019: Material Engagement and Mental Health Conference, University of Oxford: I presented a paper entitled: Materiality and the Mind: the impact of object handling sessions on the wellbeing of young adults.