International Health Humanities Network Membership

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I am a postgraduate student at the University of Nottingham, embarking upon a Masters degree in English Literature. I am extremely interested in healthcare and the field of health humanities, and hope to pursue my own research in this field. 

I have always had a passion for exploring how music works in society and more specifically how it can support health, wellbeing and inclusion.

I have pursued undergraduate research in Music Therapy to support the social skills or Autistic children. I have supported young people engaging in music at an alternative education provision and more recently, after working as a teaching assistant in a hospital school, I became interested in music in healthcare.

I am now about to embark on an MA Res at Nottingham University where I hope to research the effect of music in the community on wellbeing.

Joan Fitzpatrick is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Loughborough University. Her research specialism is food and dietary culture in early modern and medieval literature and culture. She has published widely on Shakespeare and health, specifically in relation to diet. Recent publications include a critical edition of three early modern guides to good health (Three Sixteenth Dietaries, Manchester University Press, 2017). She is currently writing a book for Routledge on Shakespeare and hospitality.

Lorna Fitzsimmons, PhD, is Professor of Humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in Los Angeles. She has research interests in medical humanities in relation to studies in literature, film and media, music, the history of ideas, ecocriticism, cognitive studies, comparative cultural studies, and critical race studies.

Educated in the UK, with a B.Sc. with honours in Physics (UMIST), an MA in Counselling and a Ph.D. (University of Manchester), he is a polymath who is also a Chartered Physicist, European and Chartered Engineer. His view of life is one of trying to find balance between the Inner and Outer Journeys through the development of Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Intelligence. He feels that people and relationships are key to the realization of success as organizations operate at the 'edge of chaos', which is a requirement of our rapidly changing world. He endeavours to find compassion, tolerance, patience and humility in all that he observes and behaves and has found the esoteric journey of discovery uplifting and positive. A lifelong search for knowledge, understanding and wisdom has brought rich rewards. In the Health arena he is considered to be an expert in Pandemics and has a interest in Mental Health and an improved understanding of People in Crisis, particularly where there are no perceived rescuers. He is a Governor of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and President of CSPOC (www.cmdc-spoc.org). Other interests include the development of nanomedicines and innovative frameworks for Education and Enterprise that draw on the latest thinking in neuroplasticity and interactive learning. This leads to a better understanding of how people organise into social and work groups to create a promulgation wave of change and individual and community resilience.

I have a masters' degree in social anthropology, with a special interest in medical anthropology, "complementary and alternative medicine' and social determinants of health.

PhD candidate Social Sculpture and Medical Practitioner

Consultant Psychiatrist and Doctoral Student in Social Sculpture (A feld of Contemporary Art)