International Health Humanities Network Membership
Julie-Ann Martin
Current Position: Julie-Ann is the Creator and Co-founder of Western Health Arts and Health.
Qualifications: RN; BN; Grad Dip in Adv Nrsg [Critical Care/Emergency Nrsg]; MN; Grad Dip in Arts; Dip in Mgt.
Background: Julie-Ann is an Emergency and Critical Care Nurse with over 25 years experience. She has extensive experience as a clinician, educator, researcher, deployment nurse and professional representative highlights her commitment to healthcare, and her professional knowledge, experience and insights into healthcare are highly regarded.
Further to her distinguishable clinical profile, in recent years Julie-Ann has emerged as a highly regarded expert in the filed of Arts and Health, an innovative leader and interdisciplinary researcher.
Julie-Ann is currently introducing arts based intitiatives into a major healthcare organisation, Julie-Ann represents the nexus between arts and health both professionally and academically, and provides a global perspective on contemporary and evidenced-based developments. As a Nurse Educator, Julie-Ann used the arts to develop students humanistic, observational, anlaytical and interpersonal skills. She has completed Arts studies at Academia di Firenze and the University of Melbourne, and as a University of Melbourne Gandoli Fumagali scholar she researched how the art collection at Museo del Novecento in Milan could be evaluated from a medical perspective. Julie-Ann has presented at Arts and Health Australia conferences, is a nominated member of the Creative Institute for Health Arts and Health Leadership Group (Victoria) and an Honorary member for the University of Melbourne's School of Health Sciences.
In 2014, Julie-Ann was the Creative Coordinator of Western Health's (WH) '60 Days of Art' at Footscray Hospital and undertook an ethically approved study to 'Evaluate the physiological and psychological responses of participants who attended art therapy sessions at the hospital'. Following the successes and outcomes of '60 Days of Art', in 2015 a Business Case for Western Health Arts and Health was presentedand subsequentally endorsed.
Julie-Ann's vision is to embed the arts into the hospital environment, to transform healthcare experiences for individuals, staff and the organization. In 2015 Julie-Ann created Western Health Arts and Health. The program consists of four domains: Patient Experiences, Community & Cultural Engagement, Art & Design, and Education & Wellbeing. Julie-Ann is the Co-founder and Manager of Western Health Arts and Health.
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justine mason
I am a senior lecturer in health sciences at Glyndwr University in Wales. Prior to this, I practised as a mental health nurse in acute and community settings in adult and older age mental health and learning disability services. I have interests in a range of areas, including philosophies of health and caring, translation and interpreting (particularly public service interpreting), AIDS film and fiction, nurse education and dementia care. In my spare time, I am a keen allotmenter and volunteer translator.
Katie Masters
Doctoral Researcher, University of Birmingham
Thesis entitled: An Analysis of Women and Social Anxiety Disorder from the Perspectives of Feminism and Antipsychiatry
Manon Mathias
Manon Mathias is Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen. She was awarded a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2011 and the thesis won the George Sand Association Memorial Prize in 2013. She has published on the French novel and the natural sciences and is currently beginning the first interdisciplinary study of digestive health in nineteenth-century France by comparing novels, cookbooks and medical texts and the models of diet and wellbeing they propose to the reading public. Building on her recent work on excrement, health and the novel in the nineteenth century, the project connects the fields of literary studies, food history, and history of medicine to reach a new understanding of France’s distinctive position on the relationship between food and health.
Sean Matthews
Sean Matthews has published widely on cultural theory and twentieth century literature, and has taught on these topics in Britain, Japan, the US, and, for the British Council, in Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. His anthology of critical theory, Theories: A Reader, edited with Aura Sibisan of the University of Brasov, Romania, was published in 2003, and included his introductory essays and apparatus. He has directed events, panels, lectures and seminars around issues in contemporary studies for the British Council ('Reading Worlds', The Oxford Conference 2004; 'Reading Reputations', the Oxford Conference 2005; and '2007, 'Writing Lives'); the CCUE Annual Conference ('Contemporary Classrooms', Oxford 2004); ESSE ('Chronotopes of the Contemporary', Zaragosa 2004); and the Learning and Teaching Support Network, LTSN ('Condition of the Subject', London 2003). He is a contributor to www.contemporarywriters.com, and reviews for a number of newspapers and journals. He directed the 2007 D.H. Lawrence International Conference, 'Return to Eastwood', and co-curated the exhibition 'Lawrence Among the Women' at the Weston Gallery. He is currently working on a study of Raymond Williams.
Mary Matthews
I am an Occupational Therapist working in a large hospital in Brisbane Australia. My background is in Mental Health but I am currently working with physical illness in a mental health capacity. I am very interested in Arts in Health programs and am currently running a choir in the hospital for patients and staff as a six week project.
Jocelyne Maurice
Jocelyne Maurice, MA, BS/BA, RN
Nurse, Artist & Therapeutic Art Life Coach, Jocelyne is the founder and director of Expressive Arts Academy and Natural Holistic Lifestyle. She is a board certified registered nurse and board certified holistic health practitioner.
As a nurse, artist, and holistic health practitioner, she combines her unique approach to health and wellness with the practice of expressive arts. She incorporates guided imagery, visual arts, creative writing, music, creative authentic movement/dance, and mindfulness meditation together in a integrated way to foster human growth, development and healing. Her expertise in health promotion is from the perspective of health humanities. She believes everyone has the power to journey back to health and wellness as they discover or rediscover their joy, peace and wisdom from looking within themself. She views herself as a facilitator who “hold space” for others, while they remember and experience their innate wisdom through the arts.
As a registered nurse for over 33 years, she has a wide-range of experience from having worked in the private and public sectors. She has an extensive clinical background with over 20 years working in hospital settings, both in Canada and the United States. Her clinical experience includes newborn intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care unit and various specialties in adult intensive care units. She is currently working as a public health nursing consultant in community health promotion with the Florida Department Health.
Jocelyne earned a Master of Art in Humanities from Florida State University; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of West Florida, a Bachelor of Art in Organizational Management for Warner University; and an Associate of Applied Science in Nursing from the Garneau College, Quebec Canada. She holds two certificates from the University of Florida, one in Healing with the Arts and another in Arts in Healthcare. She is currently pursuing a certificate in Expressive Arts from the Expressive Arts Florida Institute, Sarasota, Florida.
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She is a member of the American Holistic Nursing Association, The International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and the International Health Humanities Network.
Joseph Mayaki
I am a budding Nigerian researcher with a unique interest in the area of Literature and medicine. I have a background in the humanities. I am currently on my PhD work at the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where I also got my previous degrees in English Arts.
My on-going research is titled SCRIPTOTHERAPY, GRIEF AND CREATIVITY. My focus is the therapeutic potency of writing either as a process or a product.
Sonja Mayrhofer
Sonja Mayrhofer is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa's English Department, at work on a dissertation entitled "The Body (Un)Balanced: Humoral Theory and Late Medieval Literature," which examines how the humors influenced representations of bodies in medieval literary texts. She is also especially interested in cross-disciplinary scholarship between the arts, humanities, and health sciences.