International Health Humanities Network Membership
Elif Sezen
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Elif Sezen, PhD, MA, BFA, Dip A.Th, is a multidisciplinary artist, bilingual writer/poet and researcher. She was born in Melbourne in 1981: She lives and works in Melbourne. Elif obtained her PhD in Fine Art from Monash University. In her doctoral research she explored various ways of reconceptualising memory traces emerging from trauma and loss. She researched potential new models of constructing the self through visual and poetic images, ranging from various media including artist’s books, painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media, printmedia, photography, digital projection, and poetry.
Her recently published books include Universal Mother (GloriaSMH Press, 2016), and A Little Book of Unspoken History (Puncher&Wattmann, 2018). In her multidisciplinary practice Elif speculates upon reconceptualising memory traces emerging from familial, personal and collective trauma and loss. This explorative process leads her to a restorative and even a celebratory notion of self-construction, desire, longing and a sense of homecoming. Elif is a lecturer at AIST (Australian Institute for Science and Technology), where she is currently preparing courses which she will teach in the fields of Arts in Health & Wellbeing, and Visual Art. Her website: www.elifsezen.com Email: elifszn@yahoo.com
Johanna Shapiro
Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D. is professor of family medicine and director of the Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine. As a psychologist and medical educator, she had focused her research and scholarship on the socialization process of medical education, with a special focus on the impact of training on student empathy; and on the doctor-patient relationship, including physician interactions with "difficult," stigmatized, and culturally diverse patient populations. Dr. Shapiro is a poetry co-editor for the e-magazine Pulse, an assistant editor for Family Medicine, and a special editor for Journal for Learning through the Arts. Dr. Shapiro has received numerous teaching awards, including The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award and the UCI Excellence in Teaching Award. She has authored or co-authored over 130 refereed publications. Her recent book, The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry, is a critical analysis of important themes in the socialization process of medical students as expressed through their creative writing.
prateeksha sharma
A classical musician from India, who also works in interdisciplinary research in Mental health, disability, qualitative research
Nicola Shaughnessy
Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. She has been Head of Drama at three UK Universities and chaired the 2015 subject benchmarking committee (Dance Drama and Performance). Her research involves interdisciplinary collaborations across arts, health and science through creative and participatory research methods. Her current work explores neurodivergence, autism and mental health through participatory performance. She has led three AHRC funded projects exploring autism through drama and interactive media. Her publications include essays in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2013), the Wiley Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology (2017) and The Cognitive Humanities (2016). She is the author of Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice (Palgrave, 2012) and the edited collections Affective Performance and Cognitive Science: Body, Brain and Being (Methuen, 2013) and Performing Psychologies: Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind (2018, with Philip Barnard). She is co-editor for Methuen’s Performance and Science series.
David Sheffield
My work focuses on experimental work and reviewing (mainly) to explore efficacy of drawing, music and other creative arts to keep people well and to revover.
Yvonne Sherring
I am a professional fine artist, clinical art therapist (registered with ANZATA) and specialist working in community based Palliative Care In Melbourne, Australia. I have a passion for arts, people, community and health care, and care deeply about the health, creative expression and wellbeing of those I work for and with.
Ive a keen interest in the use of arts based research methods and the (narrative) responses of those engaged in expression for their own health.
Nigel Short
I am a recently retired English National Health Service Psychotherpaist. My interestes are in identiry development and transformation. My Doctoral studies used autoethnographic approaches
Rebecca Shorthouse
I am a first year Masters student studying Mental Health Nursing at the University of Nottingham. My first degree is in Social work and have experience of working within the Social Model. I have experience of working with people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, people with mental illness and people with acquired brain injuries. I have worked in both inpatient settings and community settings with all ages ranging from children and families to the elderly.
I am currently begining to read for a thesis on music and dementia. I will develop a critical undertsanding of how music therapy can improve communication skills for people with Alzheimer's disease. I hope to be able to provide an area of innovation to Nursing by considering how this area could be part of future nursing practice. I am interested in hearing from anyone with first hand experience of Mental health services, and also people with an interest in music as a therapy.
My personal areas of interests are literature, narratives, story telling, music, drama and dance.
Annie Siby
M.A Student, based in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Interested in illness narratives, critical medical humanities, psychosis in literature andgraphic narratives.
Ross D. Silverman
Ross D. Silverman, JD, MPH is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medical Humanities at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Southern Illinois University School of Law in Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.