International Health Humanities Network Membership

Assistant Professor, Department of History University of Nottingham (2014-present); Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Nottingham, Ningbo (2010-2014); Assistant Professor, Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Exeter (2009-10); Assistant Professor, Centre for health history, University of Strathclyde (2005-9). PhD, Wellcome Trust, MPhil, Cantab., BA, History.

Rebecca is an independent curator, producer, and program manager in the visual and performing arts. Currently, she is Program Manager at The Nocturnists, a medical storytelling community founded in San Francisco in 2016 by Emily Silverman, MD. Past roles include Dramaturg, Ballett Frankfurt; Executive Director, Forsythe Foundation; Assistant Curator, Kramlich Collection. Her article, "On Performance and the Dramaturgy of Caring," was published by Palgrave McMillan in 2017.

Former MA student.

The recently founded Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC) is based in the School of Critical Studies, but functions across the College of Arts and the College of Medicine, Veterinary and Life Sciences and in close liaison with the College of Social Sciences.
The MHRC is co-directed by Dr David Shuttleton and Dr Gavin Miller.
The MHRC is advised by a committee drawn from various Schools and subject areas across the university. The current members are: Professor Sally Wyke (Institute of Health and Wellbeing), Professor Sam Cohn (History), Dr David Bain (Philosophy), Professor Nigel Leask (English Literature), Dr Sheila Dickson (German), Professor Malcolm Nicolson (Centre for the History of Medicine), Dr Christine Ferguson (English Literature), Professor Marek Dominiczak (Medical Humanities Unit).
As an international centre for medical research Glasgow has long played a significant role in the emergence of Medical Humanities; breakthrough publications by Sir Kenneth Calman (our current Chancellor) and Prof. Emeritus R. S. Downie remain foundational studies. A wide range of Medical Humanities research, including some major externally funded projects, is currently being undertaken across Glasgow University. In this context we see the MHRC as offering a fresh framework upon which to deepen and expand internationally significant research

Sometimes I paint pictures to explain stories; sometimes I tell stories to explain pictures.

As a visual artist I have undertaken a range of projects that engage art as a potential for social and community change. My work is at the nexus art and health, bringing insight to issues that impact public mental health, child and youth development, socio-cultural action. I am employed at QUT’s Children and Youth Research Centre, in a research capacity. Prior to undertaking my doctoral study I worker as an Artist in Residence with Queensland Health Northside District Mental Health Services (2000-2007) I generated many creative outputs that underpin my research agenda and provided a practical foundation to my doctoral study. Creative outputs include the production of exhibitions, performances and events aimed to raise awareness of issues related to mental illness and recovery. These also engaged constructive critiques and a synthesis of arts in health practice. Through collaborative creative method I engaged people with experience of mental illness in the design, production and presentation of the artworks such as Biometriod Man and the Angry Centaur (2007) and Portrait of Health (2007). I was the employed as an artist to develop The Ripple Effect (2009), a consumer collaborative art project developed under the auspice of the Mental Health Alliance. This project received the Arts and Mental Health Australia Award at the International Arts and Mental Health Conference in 2010.

Outi Hakola is a senior researcher at the Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her background is in media and literature studies. Her research concentrates on questions of aging, death, dying and mourning in films, television and social media. Her ongoing research project, Constructing Good Death (2017-2022), deals with documentary films on end-of-life issues.

Alice Hall is a Lecturer in Contemporary and Global Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Before York, she studied at Cambridge and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Nottingham. Alice has also taught at Université Paris Diderot, La Sorbonne Nouvelle and Cambridge. Her research interests are in contemporary and global literature, particularly the areas of cultural disability studies, literature and the body, autobiographical fiction, ageing, and medical humanities.

Jenni Halton

Arts Administrator

rb&hArts

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

Sydney Street

London

SW3 6NP

j.halton@rbht.nhs.uk

0207 352 8121 ext 4087

Andrea Halwas Larsen, BA, MFA, PhD, REACE, is a Calgary-based expressive arts therapy consultant and photographer. She is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapy Consultant and Educator and is currently completing her internship as a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist. Andrea has been using the creative arts in therapeutic and rehabilitative work with youth and their families since 2007. She has worked for various social service agencies and health services specializing within pediatric and adolescent mental health and education. Andrea holds a BA (Honours), a MFA, and a Doctorate from the University of Calgary with a combined specialization in Psychology, Drama, and Nursing. Andrea’s doctoral work focused on the therapeutic and experiential affect of drama in grief and loss. Andrea has completed her Level 2 Expressive Arts Therapy Certification as well as her EMDR Certification, and is trained in EFFT. She is a published playwright and the creator of the expressive arts therapy puppet show called: ‘The Nicki and Little Bear Show.’ 

Sociologist, senior lecturer in social care at Manchester metropolitan university. From the health humanities perspective, I'm  interested in how graphic medicine can be used to help convey information In healthcare settings.