International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a Chartered Physiotherapist with 40 years of clinical experience, mostly with children and young people and currently with adults with MSK conditions.

I have recently completed an MA in Medical Humanities at the University of Kent, UK.

My areas of interest for further study/research lie in enhancing wellbeing for both patient groups AND clinical staff through exploring ways to the build resilience and resourcefulness through arts-based activites and interests.

Personal passions are walking my dogs, alone and with company, Mindfulness, theatre (especially off West End and Rep), art gallery surfing, Book Groups and quizzes

Dr. Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger is a Research Fellow in Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham. 

 Bushra Juhi Jani is a university lecturer in contemporary English literature and she has recently started teaching medical English in the Medical College/Al-Nahrain University in Baghdad, Iraq. She wants to introduce medical humanities to Iraqi medical schools. She did her BA and MA degrees in English literature at Mustansiriyah University. She received her PhD degree in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 2018. She wrote her thesis on violence in Margaret Drabble’s novels and four selected Iraqi novels. She published a number of research papers on Margaret Drabble and contemporary Iraqi novels. Her research interests lie in the area of English and Iraqi novels as well as Movie Studies. She is also interested in translating into English of Iraqi short stories and novels. She co-authored the translation of the first collection of short stories of the Iraqi novelist, Hadiya Hussein, which was self-published on Amazon. She also co-authored the translation of an anthology of Iraqi short stories, which comprised ten Iraqi storytellers. The latter was published by Lincom Academic Publisher in Germany 2019. She is planning to write a book with some other researchers on Iraq-War films.

I am specialized in opening a conversation with people with a broad, nondirective invitation to speak I hospitals and elderly care. During the last eleven years, I am trained in listening to both content and form, to be aware of genre, diction, metaphor, time and space, tone, and mood to follow complicated stories as they are being told. An active member of the Internationale Listening Association since 2012 (committee leader Healthcare). I am a certified Listening Professional since 2014 and educator health humanities ate the Glocal Academy

I am specialized in opening a conversation with people with a broad, nondirective invitation to speak. During the last eleven years, I am trained in listening to both content and form, to be aware of genre, diction, metaphor, time and space, tone, and mood to follow complicated stories as they are being told.

Narrative knowledge is what one uses to understand the meaning and significance of stories through cognitive, symbolic, and affective means.

I am a Biodanza (life-centred dance movement) facilitator currently based in Bristol. I have a background in education, music, community arts, counselling and Buddhist psychology, and a wealth of experience facilitating creative and therapeutic projects aimed at helping people live their lives to the fullest. I work with the general public and with different groups in a variety of health and community settings. 

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, based in the Department of Languages. Iwrote my PhD thesis, Bringing Madness Home. The multiple meanings of home in Janet Frame's Faces in the Water, Bessie Head's A Question of Power and Lauren Slater's Prozac Diary as an attempt to create an alternative to medical discourse on madness. It also employed and challenged previous feminist notions in regard to the relation of home and madness. The thesis is available online: https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/37880 . And i'd be happy to receive comments on it.

I have worked in arts and health for over 12 years in Britian and in Denmark. Will begin a Ph.D. at Nottingham University in Arts, Health and Wellbeing in September 2013.

Having received a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in European Theatre from Edinburgh, I am now undertaking PhD research examining the representation of psychic distress in recent British theatre at the University of Kent.

My research explores the productive interactions between theatrical practice and mental health service users, and asks how theatre can be further employed both in therapeutic contexts and for public engagement.

In order to examine these issues, I am analysing specific productions, comparing different productions of, for example, Peter Weiss's 'Marat/Sade' over time, as well as looking at other 'performances' at the intersection between theatre and mental health, including the 'Mad Pride' protest movement.

E. Franklin Frazier Chair of African American Literature, Theory, and Culture at Clark University, Worcester, MA

Assistant Professor of English