International Health Humanities Network Membership

Kia Ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand

I am a nurse educator who has been exploring the health care world with students using arts and humanties based educational approaches.

My research partner, artist Catharine Salmon, and I have been investigating the use of arts based pedagological approaches to stimulate compassionate client centred interprofessional care. We are also intrigued in the concepts of 'noticing' and facilitating resilence in health care professional by facilitating them to 'play in the gutters' between their practice.

Recent presented work :

Australasian Nurse Educators Conference: Co- creating the future; Auckland New Zealand, November 2015 - 'Arts and Nursing - the stimulation of compassionate awareness.

This presentation is the product of a series of critical conversations held by Catharine Salmon (artist) and Helen Childs ( nurse educator), in which they came to terms with each others 'practice' world, areas of commonality and collaborative potential to enhance the education of nursing students. A collection of images from Catharine's work that explored the lived experience of breast cancer, are proposed as a pedagogical method to develop epistomological and ontological growth in students. This presentation is deeply personal and moving.

New Zealand Interprofessional Health Conference: Advancing the dialogue, promoting partnerships; Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand July 2016 - Educating a collaborative ready workforce; students and health professionals: 'The Arts and health education'.

I received a doctorate in Korean literature from Kon-Kuk University in Seoul Korea. I am also completed counseling psychology coursework and working on my dissertation in Dan-KooK University. I am lecturer at the Kon-Kuk University. I have teaching literature, creative writing, Literary therapy, psychoterapy using literature(folktales, poetry, etc). 

With 17 years in the medical profession, I have concentrated the last several years of my career toward nursing education.  I have worked as a mental health technician in an inpatient psychiatric unit, a rape crisis counselor victim advocate, a critical care nurse, a nurse in an acute adult inpatient psychiatric unit, and an ER nurse. My career in nursing education began in 1995 in Louisville, KY at Spencerian College where I taught both in the classroom and in clinical settings. While at Spencerian, I developed a computer-ease course for senior-level LPN students, which was designed to train them for taking their board certification exams. I was also responsible for developing CEU’s for students and faculty. In 2000 I had the opportunity to further my career as a nurse educator in the state of Georgia

Shannon Clark is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Canberra working on a national evaluation of the Nurse Practitioner - Aged Care Models of Practice Program. Research interests include, health-care communication, qualitative methods, conversation analysis.

42 year old female undertaking counselling studies.

Professor Stephen Clift, BA, PhD, FRSPH

Stephen Clift is Professor of Health Education in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University, and Director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health. He is also Professorial Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and has lead on developments within the Society related to creative arts and health. He has worked in the field of health promotion and public health for over twenty-five years, and has made contributions to research, practice and training on HIV/AIDS prevention, sex education, international travel and health and the health promoting school in Europe. His current interests relate to arts and heath and particularly the potential value of group singing for health and wellbeing.

The De Haan Research Centre was established in 2005 and since then has made original contributions to research on the value of singing for people with enduring mental health challenges and older people with chronic respiratory illness. The Centre has also conducted the first ever community based randomised controlled trial on the value of singing for older people, with funding from the National Institute for Health Research. Stephen is one of the founding editors of the journal Arts & Health: An international journal for research, policy and practice published by Taylor Francis. He is Chair of the recently established RSPH Special Interest Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing. He is also co-editor with Professor Paul Camic of the Oxford Public Health Textbook on Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing published in November 2015.

Professor Stephen Clift, BA, PhD, FRSPH

Stephen Clift is Professor of Health Education in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University, and Director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health. He is also Professorial Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and has lead on developments within the Society related to creative arts and health. He has worked in the field of health promotion and public health for over twenty-five years, and has made contributions to research, practice and training on HIV/AIDS prevention, sex education, international travel and health and the health promoting school in Europe. His current interests relate to arts and heath and particularly the potential value of group singing for health and wellbeing.

The De Haan Research Centre was established in 2005 and since then has made original contributions to research on the value of singing for people with enduring mental health challenges and older people with chronic respiratory illness. The Centre has also conducted the first ever community based randomised controlled trial on the value of singing for older people, with funding from the National Institute for Health Research. Stephen is one of the founding editors of the journal Arts & Health: An international journal for research, policy and practice published by Taylor Francis. He is Chair of the recently established RSPH Special Interest Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing. He is also co-editor with Professor Paul Camic of the Oxford Public Health Textbook on Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing published in November 2015.

Recent research publications

Clift, S., Gilbert, R. & Vella-Burrows, T. (2016) A Choir in Every Care Home: A review of research on the value of singing for older people. Available from: https://achoirineverycarehome.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/wp6-research-review-v2-1.pdf

Clift, S., Manship, S. & Stephens, L. (2015) Singing for Mental Health and Wellbeing: Findings from West Kent and Medway, Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University. ISBN: 978-1-909067-51-6

Clift, S., Page, S., Daykin, N. & Peasgood, E. (2016) The perceived effects of singing on the health and

well-being of wives and partners of members of the British Armed Forces: a cross-sectional survey, Public Health, doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2016.03.022

Coulton, S., Clift, S., Skingley, A. and Rodriguez, J. (2015) Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community singing on mental health-related quality of life of older people: randomised controlled trial, British Journal of Psychiatry, 206, 1–6. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.129908

Morrison, I., Clift, S., Page, S., Salisbury, I., Shipton, M., Skingley, A., Vella-Burrows, T., Coulton, S. and Treadwell, P. (2013) A UK feasibility study on the value of singing for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), UNESCO Journal, 3, 3. Available from: http://web.education.unimelb.edu.au/UNESCO/pdfs/ejournals/vol3iss3_2013/003_MORRISON_PAPER.pdf

Skingley, A., Bungay, H., Clift, S. & Warden, J. (2013) Experiences of being a control group: lessons from a UK based randomised controlled trial of group singing as a health promotion initiative for older people. Health Promotion International, doi: 10.1093/heapro/dat026.

Skingley, A., Martin, A. and Clift, S. (2015) The contribution of community singing groups to the well-being of older people: Participant perspectives from the United Kingdom, Journal of Applied Gerontology, 1-23, doi: 10.1177/0733464815577141

I am a part-time theology PhD student at Leeds University, carrying out qualitative research to explore the experiences of people with lived experience of both altered mood (often called depression or bipolar) and Christianity. 

Luke Collins is a Research Associate working on the ESRC-funded project, 'Climate change as a complex social issue' http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/projects/climate-change/index.aspx.

Luke recently submitted his doctoral thesis exploring the concept of empowerment in families of deaf children through the delivery of a video-based intervention. In this work, he used discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to look for evidence of perspective transformation in transcribed conversational data taken from sessions of parents' reflections on video data.

Luke developed his skills in literary linguistics through studying English Studies as an undergraduate at the University of Nottingham, as well as developing an interest in the languages of medieval England. This led to his AHRC-funded Masters in Norse and Viking Studies, where Luke took a stylistic approach to examining runic inscriptions found on artefacts of bone and wood from the Viking Age.

I am a Masters in Public Health Candidate at the University of Virginia who is deeply fascinated by the realtionship between creativity and well-being.