International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a clinical psychologist that did my BSc. in Psychology with Clinical Psychology at the University of Kent at Canterbury and then did an MPhil in Schizophrenia at uthampton University, in the UK and progressed to a PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

My research interests are:

Cognitive models of paranoia, social anxiety and depression

• Bio- psycho-social aspects and interventions for early psychosis
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• Social Mentality theory and eating disorders
• Mental health and unemployment
• Preventive Treatments of social phobia and paranoid ideation
• The Neurological basis of the threat vs. soothing systems in paranoia
• Self-administered programs for psychological well being                         
• Bullying and the protection of children’s rights
• I am also currently affiliated with the De Montfort Health and Life Sciences' Research Group as well as the Centro de Investigação do Núcleo de Estudos e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental (CINEICC) at the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciencias da Educacao da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal and the 
• Mental Health Research Unit, University of Derby

I have been researching the cognitive and evolutionary mechanisms of paranoia and social anxiety. I have been fortunate to have worked with Professor Paul Gilbert and Paul Chadwick and collaborated with other researchers from the UK and Portugal to devise a new cognitive model for early psychosis.

At the present moment we are interested in the devising a self administered CBT and Compassionate Mind Training Program that would prevent social anxiety, depressive symptomatology and paranoid ideation. We intend to internationalise this program and to adapt this to different economic and social contexts.

I also did some consultancy work, I was the co-founder of the Project at the University Fernando Pessoa (Porto, Portugal) “Psychological consultations for the community”(September 2004-July 2005). Goal: provide psychological consultations and psychosocial help to the unprivileged population of Porto city

Key Papers:

Lopes, B. ; Pinto-Gouveia, J. ; Martins, S. (2011) A relação da paranóia com o afecto negativo em duas amostras não-clinicas da população Portuguesa, Psychologica, vol. 59, 212-224

• Lopes, B. ; Pinto-Gouveia, J. ; Martins S. (2011) Estudo da Adaptação Portuguesa da “General Paranoia Scale” (GPS) de Fenigstein e Vanable (1992) em duas amostras Portuguesas (estudantes e população geral), Psychologica, vol. 59, 300-320.
• Lopes, B. & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2012) How Do Non-Clinical Paranoid and Socially Anxious Individuals React to Failure? The Role of Hostility and State Anxiety. Journal of Forensic Research, 3: 144. doi:10.4172/2157-7145.1000144
• Lopes, B. & Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2012) The impact of predisposition to hallucinations on paranoid vs. socially anxious individuals when faced with negative affective-laden sounds: an experimental investigation. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 00, 1-17 doi: 10.1017/81352465812000483
• Key research outputs: Lopes, B. (2011) Differences Between Victims of Bullying and Non-victims on Levels of Paranoid Ideation and Persecutory Symptoms, the Presence of Aggressive Traits, the Display of Social Anxiety and the Recall of Childhood Abuse Experiences in a Portuguese Mixed Clinical Sample. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Dec 6. doi: 10.1002/cpp.800. [Epub ahead of print]

I am currently the Faculty Librarian for the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, at Bournemouth University.

I am interested in the relationship between literature, digital collections and health educations.

I have an MA in Classics and and MSc in Library and Information Science

Dr. Lucas is an academic bioethicist with interests in health inequities and health humanities. They received an MA in religious and cultural studies from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and a master’s degree in bioethics (MBE) and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lucas’ current research projects center on identification and enactments of unconscious racism in clinical settings. Their approaches to this work include centering patients’ narrative voices as the definers of unconscious racism and investigating approaches to dismantling the transmission of learned, enacted unconscious racism in health education settings. Their use of narrative as method and ethics includes focusing on writing, eliciting, and contextualizing narratives to address, highlight, or otherwise inform a research, clinical, or pedagogical question. Narrative ethics in their work makes apparent the actors’ positionalities within structural racism and white supremacy while simultaneously identifying stories and positionalities within dominant and non-dominant narratives. Dr. Lucas’ work (a) finds, records, and highlight these narratives followed by (b) contextualizing them for healthcare establishments (education, research, practice) in order to (c) mobilize compelling narratives that will work toward policy change.

Helping migrants to succeed in their new life in Australia by teaching English language and Australian culture as well as job skills and strategies for successful integration.

My research into the English language testing of overseas trained nurses to become registered in Australia is an issue shared with the US and other English speaking countries.

I am a nurse, teacher and researcher with extensive experience of leading national evaluation studies of health care initiatives. I also have a long standing interest in the arts and humanities in health and social care education and practice contexts. For a number of years I led an innovative poetry in hospitals project in NHS Grampian and have been involved in teaching relevant arts and humanities approaches to undergraduate students in nursing, medicine and other healthcare disciplines. These activities have resulted in a number of journal publications. In 2007 The Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Healthcare (University of Adelaide) published my book "In wards, out wards: poems and stories from nursing and beyond".

I am currently leading a multidisciplinary AHRC/Scottish Funding Council study called “Visualising the invisible: developing innovative approaches to visualisation to help NHS staff prevent and control Healthcare Associated Infections” ( March 2011 – January 2013). Our team includes consultant microbiologists, design researchers, and digital artists drawn from the following organisations: Robert Gordon University (IHWR and IDEAS); Glasgow School of Art; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; NHS Lanarkshire; NHS Grampian; NHS Education for Scotland; Health Protection Scotland/Scottish Infection Research Network. The project is concerned with the conjunction of place, people and pathogens. It seeks to better understand how healthcare workers envisage pathogens and how digital visualisation of new data about high risk hand touch sites and worker behaviour in these settings might best be developed in a way that is meaningful and may influence awareness and behaviour.

Jem Mackay is an artist who has been exploring collaborative systems within creative projects for the last sixteen years. He studied Audio-Visual Communication at St Martins School of Art; he was awarded a distinction for his MA in Digital Art from the University of the Arts London; and has just completed his PhD at University College Falmouth, looking at non-hierarchy through open-source approaches to distributed filmmaking. He has experimented with group art events in non-art public venues. He initiated several art collectives including Explosure and the House Art Gallery in London, which was an artist-led exhibition space that showed works by Sir Terry Frost and Anthony Gormley alongside local artists. He has also written a chapter entitled The Philosophical Importance of Collaboration in a collection of writings by artists entitled Philosophy of Art. He is the senior technician for the School of Film & Television at Falmouth University.

Meghan MacNamara teaches medical humanities and writing to health sciences students at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences.  She has studied narrative medicine, and she has presented nationally and internationally on related subjects.

I am currently an Irish Research Council (IRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the UCD School of Philosophy. Previously, I held a Newman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy at UCD. 

I specialise in modern and contemporary European philosophy across different traditions, including post- Kantian philosophy and contemporary phenomenology. My research primarily focuses on problems of selfhood and intersubjectivity with particular attention to the topics of habit, memory, and empathy. I have also research interests in philosophy of emotions as well as in the intersections between phenomenology and psychopathology.

Interested in introducing Health Humanites into General Nursing currucula.

Lecturer in Nursing