International Health Humanities Network Membership

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. 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 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 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

Victoria Jones is an international arts and creativity consultant with extensive experience across the creative sector. In 2016 Victoria established Arts Health Associates, www.artshealthassociates.com, an international arts health consultancy based in Melbourne.

Prior to this Victoria founded the multiple award winning ARCH programme for The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and the GO Create! arts program for Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. Victoria also founded the Creative Communities program for London Underground’s Art on the Underground. She was also the Community & Access Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Victoria has extensive experience of public art commissioning; managing a large art collections; developing participatory programs; curating and managing exhibition spaces; delivering events, performances & cultural enrichment programs for healthcare staff.

During her time at Great Ormond Street, Victoria worked with a number of high profile partners including Amnesty International, Graffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler, actors Sir Ian McKellan, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Capaldi, Barbara Windsor, Rhys Ifans & comedian Sarah Millican.

Victoria's work has been widely recognised and she has received many awards and accolades including Highly Commended awards from The International Academy for Design & Health and The Building Better Healthcare Awards in 2014. In 2013 the GO Create! arts & crafts book was awarded gold at the Institute of Medical Illustrators Awards. On 2012 the GO Create! program was cited as an example of best practice in the European policy glossary 'Learning for Well-being: A Policy Priority for Children & Youth in Europe' and later the same year Victoria received a special commendation from the Royal Society for Public Health "to recognise the quality & innovation of the program & its contribution to the field of arts and health". Victoria is a member of the judging panel for the European Healthcare Design Awards.

Victoria started her early career as an artist, studying fine art at Glasgow School of Art. She exhibited in the UK and in Europe and was commissioned by the BBC. Victoria was selected as one of Sotheby's International Young Artists of 1999, exhibiting at Sotheby's in Tel Aviv and Chicago.