International Health Humanities Network Membership
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.
Andie Rose
Service user for 20 years
Nick Rowe
I trained as a psychiatric nurse in the 1980s and then as a dramatherapist. I now work as a lecturer in the Faculties of Arts and Health and Life Sciences at York St John University where, with a colleague Gemma Alldred, I have founded, Converge a project offering courses in the arts to people who use mental health services. We work in partnership with the local NHS Trust. I am a performing member of Playback Theatre York.
Abraham Rudnick
Abranam (Rami) Rudnick is a psychiatrist (MD) and a philosopher (PhD). He is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Social and Rural Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario and the Physician Leader of the Psychosis Program at Regional Mental Health Care, London/St Thomas, Ontario, Canada. He is also the Founder and Head of the Canadian Unit of the International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). His research focuses in particular on psychiatric rehabilitation, bioethics and philosophy of health and its correlates.
Tinu Ruparell
Professor or Philosophy and Religious Studies, Member of Faculty of Medicine Healthcare and Humanities Steering group. Interested in the hermeneutics of healthcare
Peter Rutherford
Dr Rutherford trained as an architect, specialising in architectural and psychoacoustics for his Masters and PhD at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Upon graduation, he worked as an applications engineer for Sound Alert (Leeds) where he was part of a team that developed localizable auditory warning devices for the emergency services as well as navigation (emergency egress) beacons to help guide people out of burning buildings. He subsequently spent a further 3 years at the University of Leeds as an EPSRC funded postdoctoral research fellow, continuing the development of the emergency egress beacons.
In 2002 he joined the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham as lecturer, delivering modules in architectural design studio, environmental (building) science and environmental / behavioural psychology as it applies to the built environment. Since then he has undertaken several roles within the Department and is primarily responsible for the Department's Accreditation Processes. In 2007 he was promoted to Associate Professor.
Dr Rutherford's primary research interests lie with the acoustic environment - how sound is generated, how it propagates through the environment and how it is perceived / received by those exposed to it. This covers a wide range of research subjects including performance space acoustics, lecture theatre acoustics and acoustics within healthcare facilities. Ultimately his research tries to understand the impact that soundscapes have on those listening or exposed to them. His secondary research interests lie with environmental sustainability and how this shapes the built environment (and once again the occupants of the built environment). He has supervised several successful PhD students in this area.
Ben Rutter
I work in the department of Human Communication Sciences at the The University of Sheffield. My interests are in linguistics, discourse analysis and stylistics. I am looking to learn more about and find collaboration in the health humanities.
Javier Saavedra
Dr. Francisco Javier Saavedra Macías is Assistant Professor at the Department of Experimental Psychology in the University of Seville and member of the Laboratory of Human Activity Research Group. He is also research fellow in the Andalusian Fundation for the Social Integration of Person with Schizophrenia where he coordinates a research project about prevalence of psychological disorder in the prision population in Andalusia. He participates in different research project about violence abuse in the domestic context and gender culture in the Andalusian School. Dr. Saavedra wrote his doctoral thesis about changes in life narratives of patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia that lives in supported house.
Dr. Saavedra is interested in caring processes in socio-cultural settings, especially discursive and communicational aspects. With regard to the interest in caring process, he is consultant of the Association for Helping Families of Chronically Ill. Amongst other activities as consultant in this association; he leads workshops and groups of familiar and professional carer in order to improve caring skills and controlling stress related to the caring. Moreover, he was professional carer of mental health patients in supporting houses during 8 years. He is interested in the use of the art and literature as therapy and as method to teach practice in mental health. He is member of the “Madness and Literature Network” in Nottingham that is founded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is president of the delegation in Seville of the NGO for developing of humanitarian projects “Acción Verapaz” and member of the executive committee of this organization.
He has been invited by the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 2006, University the Florence in 2007 (Italy), the University of East of London and by the Health and language Research Group of the University of Nottingham in the year 2008. During his stays in these institutions he was invited to participated in several seminar. In the year 2010 Dr. Javier Saavedra obtained Highfields fellowships of Centre of Advanced Studies and was invited scholar at the University of Nottingham.