Dr Chloe Asker (they/them) has a background in health and cultural geography, and now works within the fields of public health, arts & health, and medical humanities.

Chloe completed a PhD in human geography at the University of Exeter in Spring 2022, since then they have worked for the University of Exeter, University Arts London, Culture&, Paul Mellon Centre, and University of Surrey. Most recently, they finished a Research Fellow position working on a AHRC-funded project, Beyond Culture Box, with Professor Victoria Tischler at Surrey. They are now full-time at ECEHH, working with Conny Guell on the NIHR SPHR funded COAST (Evaluating rural coastal COmmunities Active and Sustainable Travel) project. They have networks across the UK and international Higher Education Institutions, including McMaster University in Canada.

Alongside completing postdoctoral roles on creative approaches to dementia care (Culture Box) and active travel (COAST), Chloe has numerous personal research interests that are all united through a creative approach to research. During their doctoral research, Chloe explored mindfulness, trauma, and the geographies of the body using creative research methods (e.g. zine-ing and body mapping). They have published several papers that aim to shape geographical approaches to mindfulness using trauma-informed and more-than-representational frameworks.

Since then, their personal research interests have blossomed into the field of creative health, with a particular focus on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ communities. They have been working as a creative facilitator for the Section 28 and its Afterlives research project, hosting archive collage workshops with queer communities across the Southwest.