International Health Humanities Network Membership

Cheryl L. McLean

MA from London, Ontario, Canada  is an Independent Scholar, Educator, Publisher and Executive Editor of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP and books,"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Inquiries for Hope and Change" (2010) and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" (2011) Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Calgary, Detselig Enterprises Inc. and the soon to be released resource book "Creative Arts in Humane Medicine", Brush Education, Edmonton,  distributed by University of Toronto Press. 

Ms. McLean has published The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP  for over six years working with an interdisciplinary Advisory Board made up of leaders in medicine and health, education,social sciences business and the arts. Arts and medicine has been an important theme in  IJCAIP Journal and in her related books.

Cheryl McLean has a background in social science, health education and arts research and ethnodrama (live performance based on research) (BA, Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London, MA ,Faculty of Fine Art, Concordia University, Montreal). While working at The University of Western Ontario, London,  Ms. McLean was invited to study Magazine Publishing at the Graduate School of Journalism.  A college and university educator, Cheryl McLean  has taught  "Creative Responses to Death and Bereavement" at The University of Western Ontario, London.  As a community educator she facilitates Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Research workshops and seminars based on the CAIP Research Series at The Windermere Manor London, a personal creative arts, narrative and performance exploration designed for professionals across disciplines (educators,  physicians, nurses and mental health professionals, palliative care, dietetics).   

Cheryl McLean continues to publish new research in the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice profiling  international leaders across disciplines.
She was recently invited by The American Medical Students' Association, Medical Humanities Scholars' Program, to facilitate the webinar, Perceptions of Physicians in Literature and the Arts:  Arts Alive and Thriving in Medical Education and speaks widely  about "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Research"  in keynote addresses  raising awareness about the vital role the arts have to play in interdisciplinary research for health, hope and change.  Contact:  ijcaip@gmail.com

I am a PhD student at the Open University in the school of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies.

My project is an AHRC-funded collaboration with the organisation Beyond Words, who make wordless books on topics related to physical and mental health, including bullying, bereavement, friendship, healthy eating and exercise. Using creative and visual narrative methods, I aim to explore the health and wellbeing benefits of (wordless) book clubs for people with learning disabilities.

Previously, I completed a BA (English) and an MA (Person-Centred Experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice) at The University of Nottingham.

My research interests include collaborative and restorative storytelling, multimodal narratives, reading for pleasure, the discourse of therapy and improving accessibility in health services.

I am a member of the Open University’s Social History of Learning Disability network and am part of an emergent University of Cambridge network examining inequalities in primary healthcare.

Outside of my studies, I volunteer with young adults as a person-centred counsellor and read as many science fiction novels as I can squeeze in.

Anthropologist with PhD in Public Health. With special interest in the intersection between humanities, qualitative research and health. Actually working as researcher and professor at the Aging Institute at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, working on arts and mourning within hospitals and arts and humanities in medical education. 

Registered Nurse in the US with over three decades of clinical experience.

I am a teaching artist (theatre, writing, Artist-in-Healthcare), an Alexander Technique practitioner, a former patient advocate, and a person who had cancer. I am currently teaching "Introduction to Narrative Healthcare" in the Health Sciences department at D'Youville College in Buffalo NY, where I am helping to develop a Narrative Healthcare program.   

I have a research background in the biomedical sciences: I gained my PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and worked briefly as a molecular geneticist in an NHS Clinical Genetics Service. Training for ordained Christian ministry led me to study theology in Cambridge and at King's College London. I worked in pastoral ministry and ministerial training before taking up my first university post in 2001 at the University of Wales, Lampeter. In 2009 I moved to the University of Winchester, where I am Professor of Theology and Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. My research interests focus on the interactions between the biosciences, health care, theology and ethics. My publications includeSelfish Genes and Christian Ethics: Theological and Ethical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology(London: SCM Press, 2007),Respecting Life: Theology and Bioethics(London: SCM Press, 2011) and numerous articles and book chapters on theology and bioethics, science and religion, and related topics. My main current project is to develop a theological understanding of health, disease and illness as an approach to practical issues in health care ethics, and is due to be published in 2013 as a monograph entitled Flourishing: Health, Disease and Bioethics in Theological Perspective(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans). I also have an interest in theological engagement with public debates on bioethics, and am the main supervisor for an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award to research the Church of England's public and policy engagement in this area. 

HCPC Registered art psychotherapist

BACP registered and accredited counsellor/psychotherapist

Associate lecturer, Art Therapy Northern Programme 

PhD student, Sheffield Hallam University.  My research is concerned with the use of reflexive art-making processes as a means of investigating unspoken social/cultural narratives in healthcare institutions.

Jesse Miller is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where he studies literary modernism and the history of science and medicine. His dissertation examines the aesthetic, ethical, and biopolitical implications of the practice of bibliotherapy, in which reading is used to produce or maintain states of mental health, and locates its origins in middlebrow and modernist culture of the U.S. inter-war period. He will be implementing an experimental bibliotherapy reading group project entitled “Reading for Health(Care)” at a Buffalo-area hospital during the 2015-2016 school year through funding from the New York Council of the Humanities. Jesse has published review essays on books related to modernism, media, and the history of science in Modernist Cultures (March 2015) and Configurations: Journal of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (Summer 2014). He is also the reviews editor for the online literature and culture magazine Full Stop (www.full-stop.net).

Aspiring Nurse Practitioner, full-time faculty in the writing program at USC and Instructional Designer for the Humanities at UCLA. Academic interests: pain, neurodiversity, trauma, addiction, health professional-patient interaction, petty management systems

BA (Hons.) English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

MA (Dist.) Early Modern and Early Eighteenth-Century Studies, Loughborough

PhD Eighteenth Century studies, literature of sensibility, physiology of the sensible body, physiology and pathology of emotion through historical perspectives,

Loughborough

I work in the intersection of the fields of literature, physiology and writings on eighteenth-century moral sense. I focus especially on the emotions of anger, envy and resentment as they articulate affinities between the workings of the body, questions of ethics and gender and greater metaphors of societal harmony or strife.

I was recently awarded a Medical Humanities Small Grant by the Wellcome Trust in order to study the physiology of envy from a historical perspective.