International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a Registered Nurse and Clinical Ethicist. I have a PhD in Religious Studies specializing in the Nature of Religion

Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Connecticut. I am a historian of bibliotherapy, with a particular focus on the Anglophone world. I have produced digital exhibits (www.booksasmedicine.com) and work with museums to create conversations around the medical benefits of the humanities, with a particular focus on reading and its health benefits. 

I am a speech and language therapist and lecturer increasingly interested in incorporating medical/health humanities into my work with pre-registration students

I am a lecturer in speech and language therapy at Plymouth Marjon university, increasingly interested in the possibilities afforded by the application of humanities in a science based degree and wider research in SLT as a profession.  I hold an undergraduate arts degree in Engligh literature and language and a masters of science in SLT. 

Teodora Manea

Teodora is a University Honorary Fellow at the Medical School, University of Exeter. Since 2010 she has been teaching medical humanities there, focusing on ethics and philosophy. Her Special Study Unit courses “Medicine between the art of enhancement and the duty of therapy”, “From patient to e-health consumer” familiarise medical students with ethical problems raised by new biotechnologies and promises of human enhancement. E-health is another topic preparing medical students for the challenges of new information technologies and an empowered patient who has online access to medical information, treatment, therapies and drugs.

She studied philosophy in Romania and Germany. In 2002 she finished her PhD with a thesis about the theory of categories at the “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania. A significant part of her PhD research was conducted at the University of Constance under the supervision of professor Jürgen Mittelstrass. Between 2000 and 2009 she was senior lecturer specialising in hermeneutics, rhetoric, and philosophy of culture at the “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi. Following her interest in German philosophy she had various postdoctoral research stays in Germany and gave several talks in German Universities and Research Centres: Constance, Hannover, Freiburg, Bonn, Stuttgart and Tubingen. She was member of the first South-Eastern European Bioethics Forum and pioneered the introduction of bioethics as a teaching subject in Romania. With other colleagues from the Faculty for Medicine she edited the first issues of the Romanian Journal of Bioethics. In 2006 she continued the specialisation in bioethics at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Tubingen

Between 2010 and 2013 she collaborated with the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Gr. T. Popa” Iasi, Romania within the grant project POSDRU/89/1.5/S/61879 about Ethics and Healthcare Policies. During this project she worked in an interdisciplinary team about the ethical and socio-cultural aspects of medical migration from Romania into Western Europe. This project opened new perspectives for research about care ethics in connection with medical migration. She has been a member of the care ethics network eSOCSCI since 2012 and continues to work on projects connecting care, migration, patients and physicians.

Teodora Manea has worked for the European Commission since 2011 as an ethic expert in project evaluation (FP7).

For family reasons she moved to Exeter in 2007, where she enjoys a vivid family life with children, pets and the provocation of a new academic and social culture.

Publications (selection): The Revival of Categories in Contemporary PhilosophyKant-Reader, Könighausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2004; Catogeries for Bioethics (German) in , Romanian Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2011;Education through Migration, in Romanian Journal for Multidimensional Education, Vol. 4, Nr 3/2012.

Director, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham

Joined the University of Nottingham in 1995 as Professor of Social Policy and Sociology. He was Head of the School of Sociology, 1996-2001, non-executive director of the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, 2000-2007, and director of the Institute of Mental Health since 2006. He has conducted research in the field of mental health since 1973. He has also worked extensively on issues of social change in Eastern Europe, including social movements, and on employment, poverty and health in Russia.

Over 140 publications including 30 books or editions, most recently Una cultura dell’inchiesta: Prove della ricerca e communità terapeutiche, 2007,Giovanni Fioriti Editore; Global Social Policy, 2008, Sage (special issue on mental health); Health and Healthcare in the New Russia, 2009, Ashgate; International Encyclopaedia of Social Policy, 2010, Rouledge (3 vols); Social Policy, 2011, Oxford university Press.  He has been on the boards of Sociological Research Online, Global Social Policy, Therapeutic Communities, and Mental Health Review. He has been an editor of the Social Policy Review.

Has directed research funded by ESRC, NIHR, DH, British Academy, EU (INTAS), UK National Lottery, Department for International Development, Commonwealth Dept. Health (Australia).

Has also been a consultant to UNICEF, UNDP, Rowntree Foundation, UK Foreign Office, DH, Fiat, Land Rover, for work on Russia and Eastern Europe, China, Brazil, and India. In 2007 was elected an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

An expert by experience in spiritual emergency, and living a full life because of it.

Lead for Kent Mindful Employer, a network for business by business supporting mental wellbeing in the workplace.

A member of Dame Carol Black's Health And Work steering group (newly formed) working towards delivering health and work messages and implementation of good practice to enable businesses and the people who work in them, to be the best they can be.

Writer and researcher exploring the potential impacts of creative practice, history and psychogeography on young LGBTQ+ people's mental wellbeing.

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