Clay work for embodiment with women in Nepal: Tricia Ong talks to Amanda Levey

Tricia Ong is a trained creative arts therapist who has worked in the women’s reproductive health sector in Melbourne. Subsequently Tricia completed a PhD in Public Health, qualitatively exploring the reproductive health knowledge of young women who have been trafficked into the sex industry in Nepal. She is currently a Lecturer in Career Education in the Graduate Employment Division, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. She is also an Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellow, the funding of which enabled her to complete her PhD fieldwork in Nepal.

She has written a book based on her PhD studies called A feminist approach to sensitive research: Designing the Clay Embodiment Research Method.

You can read her companion reflective piece here, and a review of her book, by Tania Blomfield by clicking below: