Cathy Paton

Cathy Paton is an artist-researcher based in Hamilton, Canada. She holds a PhD in Social Work from McMaster University and remains affiliated with the School of Social Work. Her work explores artistic and relational approaches to qualitative inquiry, with particular attention to improvisation, embodiment, and collaboration. She has published open-access resources on art and research practice and has a manuscript on improvisation and interdependence currently in press. This project is developed in collaboration with Erin Kuri, a visual artist-researcher whose image-based analytic works are central to the research.