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Currently completing my PhD thesis entitled: The colony asylum in Scotland, Ireland and Germany: an archaeology of environmentalism.

The colony asylum in Edwardian Ireland and Scotland differed from English asylums in providing the majority of patient accommodation in a series of villas, categorised for acute, observation and chronic or convalescent cases. Colony asylums first became widespread in Germany and German examples became the inspiration for similar institutions built in Ireland and Scotland.  My research explores late-nineteenth-century degenerationism with its focus on anti-urbanism, sanitarianism and racialised class distinctions and connects these ideas with the production of hygienic, bourgeois, rural/suburban environments in the colony asylum. My particular interest is buildings, their architecture, internal layouts, decoration and furnishings. My research is based on both fieldwork visits to the buildings themselves and evidence obtained from a range of archives in Ireland, Scotland and Germany extending to maps, plans, annual reports, minutes and photographs. I have also made extensive use of contemporary published material including newspapers, journals and other literature. 

PUBLICATIONS

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Allmond, G. 2017 (accepted) ‘Levelling up the lower deeps’: the hygiene of light and air in an Edwardian asylum’. In: G. Laragy, O. Purdue and J. Wright, eds. Urban Spaces in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Allmond, G. 2017 ‘The First Garden City? Environment and utopianism in an Edwardian institution for the insane poor’ Journal of Historical Geography, 56, April, pp.101-112

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Allmond, G. 2017 ‘Liberty and the Individual: the colony asylum in Scotland and England’ History of Psychiatry, 28 (1), pp.29-43

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Allmond, G. 2016 ‘“The outer darkness of madness”: an Edwardian Winter Garden at Purdysburn asylum for the insane poor.’ In: M. Dowd and R. Hensey, eds. The Archaeology of Darkness. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Allmond, G. 2016. ‘Light and darkness in an Edwardian institution for the insane poor - illuminating the material practices of the asylum age.’ International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 20 (1), pp.1-22.

Shahd Alshammari is Assistant Professor of English literature. She teaches Women's Studies, Victorian literature, and is interested in illness narratives. Her book 'Notes on the Flesh' is a biomythography that deals with illness and love in the Middle East. 

Frank Ritchel Ames is Professor and Chair of Medical Humanities at Rocky Vista University, Colorado’s new medical college, where he teaches informatics, ethics, and the occasional course on religion, health, and healthcare (2008-present). 

His contributions span two disciplines and include articles in reference works such as Neal-Schuman’s The Medical Library Association’s Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences (2011) and de Gruyter’s Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (2010). He reviews titles in religious studies for the Association of College and Research Libraries’s Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (1999-present) and has chaired the editorial group in medical informatics and medical education for Doody’s Review Service (2012-2014). He directed programs and initiatives for the Society of Biblical Literature (2003-2004), proposed and currently co-chairs the SBL section on warfare in ancient Israel (steering committee member since 2004), and is co-editor of and a contributor to the Kent Harold Richards Festschrift, Foster Biblical Scholarship (2010), and four other SBL publications: Writing and Reading War (2008), Interpreting Exile (2011), Warfare, Ritual, and Symbol (2014), and The Prophets Speak on Forced Migration (2015). He is currently writing a monograph entitled War in Ancient Israel: Making Sense of the Rhetoric and Realities of Ancient Isralite Warfare. 

Professor Ames holds advanced degrees from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management (M.A.), Denver Seminary (M.Div. with honors), and the joint doctoral program of the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology (Ph.D.).

Miranda Anderson is a Nominated Fellow at the Institute of Advance Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and an Anniversary Research Fellow in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Stirling. She was the initiator of, and a research fellow on, the History of Distributed Cognition Project. This project expands on research completed during her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship which explores parallels (and contrasts) between recent philosophical theories on the extended mind and analogous ideas in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth and early-seventeenth century. A number of papers on this research have been published or are forthcoming and her book The Renaissance Extended Mind was published by Palgrave Macmillan's New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science series in July 2015. She was a Research Associate of The Balzan Project, which was based at St John’s College, University of Oxford, and which explored cognitive approaches to literary studies. She also initiated and became a research fellow on the ongoing AHRC-funded project Palimpsest: Literary Edinburgh, now renamed LitLong, a project which arose out of her idea of creating an innovative new way of engaging people with literature through geolocating extracts of literary texts. 

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BA(Hons) Psychology BA(Hons) Fine Art

2014-2015 Thomas J. Watson Fellow conducting cross-cultural ethnographic research in arts-health and health humanities. Specifically intersted in the intersection between trauma and creativity - prevention, therapy, public health, medical practices, etc. Will be traveling and working with arts-health professionals in Bolivia, the UK, Tanzania, Japan, and Australia between Aug. 2014 and Aug. 2015. 

Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow of Philosophy at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), where she leads the interdisciplinary research project Causation in Science. She is co-author of two books on causation: Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford University Press 2011) and Causation - A very short introduction (Oxford University Press 2013), both with Professor Stephen Mumford (Nottingham). Anjum is also the instigator of the Causation in Medicine team, working on causation in evidence based practice and the ontological foundation of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS).

I am an assistant professor of African American and Black Diasporic art with a joint appointment in the Departments of African American Studies and Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Before I became an art historian, I was a registered nurse and I worked in geriatric care, neurosurgery and community health in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. I was born in Sri Lanka and grew up there as well as Australia and New Zealand. My work now focuses on the relationship of art, material culture and histories of race and empire. But I am also working on the relationship of art and health, particularly within the context of imperial projects.

Interested in developing creative and participatory methodologies in the areas of women's health, gender and sexuality, and community and primary healthcare. I have been involved in research and education that both utilises and develops creative arts and humantiies based methods: from photography and medicine, photography and values, culture and mental health to poetry, drawing and graphic novels for promoting deepeer understandings of health and illness.

Soy antropólogo egresado de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y Magister en Salud Publica de la misma institución. En mi experiencia como antropólogo en campo, en espacios administrativos en el sector privado y en el sector público, y en el sector nacional y distrital he tenido la oportunidad de gestionar relaciones con comunidades étnicas y campesinas en el ámbito cultural, ambiental y en el sector salud. He logrado apoyar y desarrollar proyectos que van desde la aplicación del plan de reasentamiento de la Hidroeléctrica Sogamoso en el departamento de Santander, la aplicación de la Ley Nacional de Cultura y la formulación y aplicación del Plan de Intervenciones Colectivas en salud pública (PIC) de acuerdo con las necesidades locales, promoviendo la autonomía de dichas comunidades y logrando relaciones cordiales con ellos, así mismo aportando en los procesos participativos y de política pública con los diferentes grupos étnicos y poblacionales como las personas con discapacidad, los sectores LGBTI y las mujeres en relación con sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos, también en proceso de articulación con otros espacios en el marco gubernamental.