International Health Humanities Network Membership

Founder and Director of The Southbourne Creative Hub, a social enterprise providing arts, creative and cultural activities locally, particularly for those who need support to participate and contribute.   Working in collaboration with Bournemouth University Dementia Research Institute and charities such as The Alzheimer's Society to facilitate activities which are person centred and contribute to Active Ageing and Intergenerational Learning.  Other activities are for adults with and recovering from mental ill health again in collaboration with other local agencies.  Masters Degree, Arts in the Community.  2012 carried out research and mapping of provision of arts for health and wellbeing for Dorset County Council.  2013 Heritage Lottery Fund grant for local people to explore creatively our local history.  2013 achieved Highly Commended in the Arts & Health South West Awards.  2012 attended EU Conference: Active Ageing and Intergenerational Learning.

A medical sociologist working at the University of Nottingham - with both the Institute of Mental Health and The Retreat in York. Undertakes healthcare research, mainly in the field of mental health. Lectures in the sociology of prisons and incarceration.

• This is Swati Joshi pursuing her Doctoral Studies in Medical Humanities at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. My research interests lie in pathographies, care narratives, doctor's narratives, nurses' narratives, and so on and so forth. I believe Narrative Medicine provides the agency to the healthcare professionals in viewing the individual as a patient and as a person trapped in suffering at the same time. I am passionate about understanding the complexities and the conflict between the patienthood and the personhood. 

• Conferences

"The Therapeutic Musicality in Beckett’s All That Fall Necessitates The Healing of Geriatric Trauma Through Social Bonding”, at the Institute of Medicine, University of Oslo, 2018.

Psychology Graduate whose research interests lie in creative methodologies, with a particular interest in participatory methodologies (i.e., Action research).

I am currently within my first year of my PhD Studentship which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the ‘Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery’ Programme. My research focuses on creative practice within the Forensic Mental Health setting.

I work as a Research Fellow using ethnographic approaches to examine the experinces of health care staff, patients and families in acute hospital settings. My work focuses on the older person, dementias and cognitive difficulties, processes of care delivery and patient journeys through the entire health and social care system.

Emeritus Professor Medical Psychology, Leiden University Medical Centre, the Netherlands. Published ~200 papers in the Medical/Health Humanities area. Plus some 20 books in the Medical Psychology/Behavioural Medicine field. 

I am a physician, who uses short story, and poetry and painting to keep my own humanities. I've implemented writing workshops for medical practitioners meant to enhance their ability to listen an to be listened to. 

I've worked as a mother - of a child on the autism spectrum - to also promote arts for healing for the caregiver.

I am an author, artist, and nursing professor. I have recently published a book for children called "Rare Is Everywhere" @ www.RareIsEverywhere.com

St.Catherine?University 

Associate Professor

Pediatric Nursing

I am a PhD student at the University of Leeds studying suicide and mental health in Old English language and literature.