International Health Humanities Network Membership

• Chr Fremantle is a Researcher and Producer working in Art, Design and Health.

He has worked on public art with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Lothians and NHS Dumfries & Galloway. He has presented papers at the Design for Health Conferences in 2011, 2013 and 2015.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5818-8208

new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Therapeutic Design and Art Strategyhttp://www.nhsggc.org.uk/your-health/public-health/health-improvement/arts-and-health/13-art-on-the-queen-elizabeth-university-hospital-campus/

Ayrshire Health and Arts publishing and engagement programme http://www.ayrshirehealthandarts.wordpress.com

The website Medhum Fiction | Daily Dose posts entries on the Intersection of Medicine and Literature.

Professor Anna Furse was Head of Department of Theatre and Performance from 2011 to 2015. She leads the MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths - an international laboratory programme in performer-driven theatre/dance/live art making.

Anna is developing a new project with the overarching title THE THEATRE OF OUR BODIES, 2016 -18. A new performance collaboration, THE ANATOMY ACT, is a Residency commission with CREATE Ireland within their CAPP EU scheme, also funded by the Arts Council England. It premieres in November at Live Collision Festival and will tour thereafter.

An interdisciplinary talks series, AUTO -SCOPOPHILIA, co-curated with Dawn Kemp, Dawn Kemp Director of Museums and Archives, Royal College of Surgeons, will take place at the Old Operating Theatre Museum, the Freud Museum and Goldsmiths in Spring 2017, funded by The Wellcome Trust.

Anna is working on a book, NEUROTICAS, for Digital Theatre and a chapter on her career for The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage, eds. Jan Sewell and Abigail Rokison (2018).

I am a philosopher, senior researcher in SPHERE (Centre national pour la recherche scientifique/Université Paris Diderot, France).

My research deals with ethical, political and anthropological issues related to medicine considered as a social practice and a form of knowledge. It focuses on contemporary medical decision at the patient’s bedside and its relationship with public health policies and the health system’s organization. It examines how epistemological choice, the conceptions of health and ethical values combine together to determine cure and care options. In addition, Marie Gaille has a strong interest for the history of medical thought, especially in the Renaissance era. I have published on these topics various books and articles (see my professional web page : http://www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/spip.php?article1040&lang=fr

I am especially interested in topics that directly relate to the perspectibe of Health Humanities : how phenomenology may contribute to understand and describe the patient's experience, narrative and clinical ethics; interdisciplinary work between philsophy, social anthropology, history, clinical psychology, and literature; use of artistic contributions to foster the understanding of ethical and poltiical issues in the field of health and environemental health; ordinary life of the patients and forms of life related to medical conditions

• BA Psychology, Panteion University Athens
• MA Creative Writing, University of Western Makedonia
• MA Cultural Studies, University of Westren Mekedonia
• Training in group analysis and family therapy

I am a person with lived experience of mental distress, mental health nurse working with young people and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton. I have a particualry interest in the use of stories to frame lived experience and my doctoral research focuses on how people with lived experience incorporate service user invovlement work into their 'story'.

Research Fellow in Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin. Multi-disciplinary academic background in Human Geography, Community Health, and Psychosocial Studies. Interested in reseach methodolgoies, health serviices research, discourse.

I am a PhD candidate at Flinders University Australia in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department (Archaeology) and a mental health nurse with more than 30 years of clinical experience. I have both a health and visual art background and a keen interest to blend the two, hence Health Humanities seems most appropriate.

Dr Claire Garabedian, Associate Researcher at the Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester. Claire is a professional cellist specialising in historical performance, a Certified Music Practitioner (trained in playing music for people nearing the end of life), and an experienced research assistant. She completed her PhD at the University of Stirling, which focused on the impacts of individualised live and recorded music for care home residents with dementia nearing the end of life, and their carer. Claire’s unique combination of qualifications provides for an understanding of both practice and research aspects regarding the rewards and challenges involved in working within these populations as well as within the creative art practitioner diaspora. Claire has been invited to present and join round-table panels regarding her research work throughout the UK, as well as in Europe and the USA. She is currently evaluating several projects that use creative arts with people who are living with dementia.

I am a physician, immunologist and medical educator for more than 20 years. I am actively involved in medical humanities for learning strategy and development of better healthcare practices.