Octavia Roodt is affiliated with the Media and Persuasion Lab at KU Leuven and the Unfolding Ecologies research cluster at LUCA School of Arts. Her work as a comics artist informs her approach as a doctoral researcher at the intersection of sociology and the arts. Her research focuses on health humanities and the emerging field of graphic medicine, examining how comics can articulate experiences of medicine, health, and care. Her PhD project aims to empower people living with dementia to express the lived dimensions of the diagnosis by developing characters and narrative worlds.
