International Health Humanities Network Membership
Rose Richards
Rose Richards has an MA in English Literature and her PhD (Psychology) is on narrative and identity in organ failure and transplantation. After a considerable period of ill health, she underwent a kidney transplant in 1991 and these experiences form the basis of her doctoral work. Other research includes illness narratives, identity studies and teaching writing. She has published academic work and short stories. Some of her writing has appeared in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, New Contrast, Qualitative Health Research, The South African Journal of Higher Education and Modjaji Press’s The Bed Book of Short Stories (2010). She works with university students to help them develop academic writing skills.
Fred Riley
Deborah Roberts
As a Professor in Nurse Education and Clinical Learning I am passionate about education and learning for nurses and health care professionals. I am particualrly interested in undertaking interprofessional research that helps health professionals to better understand the people they work with and the work that they do; I beleive that nursing has much to learn from the arts. In previous work I have explored how nursing might look to performing arts in matters of assesment, and the use of painting to promote deeper thinking and reflection amongst student nurses.
Clifford Robinson
Principally a scholar in Classics and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, I teach Ancient Medicine and Ancient Science for a major in Medical Humanities (B.S.) at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (PA, USA). My research focuses on the consolatory tradition and the use of literary technique in philosophical literature, but I have secondary interests in ancient music, ancient medicine, tragedy, and critical theory (especially psychoanalytic theory, Italian theory, and ordinary language philosophy).
Cristina Robu
Cristina holds a Ph.D. in Literary Theory (Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2018) and she is currently working on her second Ph.D. in French/Francophone Studies. Her dissertation explores the pain narratives in Quebec literature and cinema. Her research interests are medical humanities, Quebec studies, literary and critical theory, cultural studies, and French modern and contemporary literature and cinema. She is also interested in the doppelgänger, fantastic literature, immigration studies, and literatures of the francophone worlds. Her cat wrote most of this biography.
Cristina Robu
Cristina holds a Ph.D. in Literary Theory (Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2018) and she is currently working on her second Ph.D. in French/Francophone Studies. Her dissertation is tentatively titled Maladie et Récit : La Mise en récit du corps malade dans la fiction Québécoise contemporaine (Sickness and Story: The narrativization of the sick body in contemporary Québécois fiction) and it explores the pain narratives in Quebec literature and cinema. Her research interests are Medical Humanities, Quebec studies, literary and critical theory, cultural studies, and French modern and contemporary literature and cinema. She is also interested in the doppelgänger, fantastic literature, immigration studies, and literatures of the francophone worlds.
Julie Rodeyns
I've worked for 10+ years as a freelance art critic, art curator and facilitator and trainer in art education and participation. I'm an active member of the European New Patrons network and founding member of Matchbox, both organisations fostering collaboration between the arts and other domains in society, a.o. health. I'm currently preparing my Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels), focusing on socially engaged arts practice within an end-of life context.
Ernesto Rodriguez
While hiking in the redwoods of Northern California, after visiting a friend in the hospital, I was struck by how nurturing the forest felt in contrast to the hospital environment. This thought fused my careers as a psychologist and visual artist and led me to launch Sereneview in 2002.
Sereneview's Purpose:
To reduce the fear and anxiety of being in the hospital, by applying the research guidelines on nature views, to create products that foster a patient-centered environment.
To be an advocate for the role and benefits of the arts in heathcare.
Sereneview has been the recipient of the Center for Health Design's Nightingale Award in 2002, NeoCon's Innovative Solutions 2008, and Healthcare Design Magazine's Top 10 Innovative Product Designers of 2011.
Irene Rogers
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Curriculum vitae: Irene Rogers
Irene Rogers completed an Honours Degree in History and Philosophy of Science (History of Medicine) at the University of Wollongong and a Bachelor of Nursing at the University of Technology in Sydney. She is currently in her third year of PhD candidacy at Central Queensland University writing a Group Biography of the Australian ‘Bluebird’ nurses of WW1. This interest arose from her personal experience as a Registered Nurse working in many areas of conflict and post conflict with International Non-Governmental Organisations. This included nursing and management positions in Timor Leste, West Papua, Sri Lanka, India, Kosovo, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Australia she has worked extensively in remote Aboriginal communities and with asylum seekers arriving by boat. She is passionate about nurses developing a strong sense of identity through understanding their history.
Publications
1. Irene Rogers, WW1 International Conference at University of London Conference report published in Oral History of Queensland Journal (Aug 2014).
2. Irene Rogers and Margaret McAllister, “Ghosts in the archives: exploring the challenge of reusing memories”. Journal of Oral History in New Zealand (Dec 2014).
3. Margaret McAllister, Irene Rogers, Donna Lee Brien (2015), “Illuminating and inspiring: using television historical drama to cultivate contemporary nursing values and critical thinking”, Contemporary Nurse, published online 10 Jun 2015.
4. Margaret McAllister, Susan Davis, Donna Lee Brien, Irene Rogers, Wendy Flanagan, Virginia Howie, Jo Dargusch (2016). "The Courage to Care - An innovative arts-based event to engage students and the local community to reflect on Australian nurses' roles in the First World War and after", Nurse Education Today (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2015.10.009
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Conference Papers
1. Paper co-authored with Margaret McAllister at 40th Annual Australasian Mental Health Nurses Conference (11/2014 Melbourne). “What can mental health nursing learn about courage and humanity from the ‘angels of mercy’ of WW1?
2. Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine Conference 1-4 July, 1915, ACU, North Sydney. Paper presented “The Meaning of the Crosses: an object biography of a newspaper clipping collected by an Australian nursing sister in France during World War 1”. Awarded Travel Grant and paper “Highly Commended” by Committee.
3. Australian Death Studies Network (Title: Facts, truths and memories of truth: writing Sister Annie Jamieson’s early death and buried life). 12 October 2015, Noosa, Qld.
4. Narrative, Health and Wellbeing Research Conference (Title: The “Sugarbird Lady”: using historical narrative to inspire nurses to make a difference.) 8 Feb, 2016, Noosa, Qld.
Projects:
1. Participation in planning, writing, research and performance for a Readers Theatre Event about Australian nurses of WW1. (May 2015).
2. Volunteer researcher with the Adopt a Digger Project. Creation of a database to record details and stories of WW1 Queensland soldiers and nurses.
3. Volunteer researcher Diggers to Veterans. Risk, resilience and recovery in the First AIF – University of Melbourne and Queensland University joint project to explore in detail the health and social implications of WW1 on Australian soldiers.
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
I work in the Philosophy Department at the University of Nottingham (UK). The main focus of my research can be called ‘phenomenological philosophy of mind’, which means – as the name suggests – that I’m interested in using ideas from the phenomenological tradition to address issues in contemporary philosophy of mind, although I write about other things too. A lot of my most recent work has been about Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. The current focus of my research is the phenomenological characterisation of pathological states. I am writing about intersubjectivity and disturbances to bodily experience in schizophrenia. I am interested in the parallels that one finds in descriptions of these and accounts of the bodily experiences that are claimed to be characteristic of certain kinds of gendered oppression.