International Health Humanities Network Membership

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. 

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.

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.

I am a recently retired English National Health Service Psychotherpaist. My interestes are in identiry development and transformation. My Doctoral studies used autoethnographic approaches

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.

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, 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.

Humanities Enhancing the Art of Learning (HEAL)

Purpose: Throughout the course of medical education, students participate in circumstances that strain the boundaries of human-experience. The traditional coping mechanism of professional-detachment is insufficient to nurture the full complex emotional/spiritual plurality of the medical students who began.

Humanities Enhancing the Art of Learning (HEAL) is a student-initiative within the University of Ottawa working to develop the narrative arts component of formative medical education. Our aim is to empower medical students to find and give expression to their own voice as a source of strength and healing.

Methods: Our program represents the student-led arm of a comprehensive inter-linked humanities curriculum at the University of Ottawa. Our partners include: the faculty-led Humanities and Medicine Committee, the Arts in Medicine Interest Group, the University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine's Aboriginal Program, and our Faculty's Artist in Residence initiative.

Future Challenges: There is a strongly identified need for enriched humanities exposure in medical training; aside from the numerous pedagogic outcome benefits, including enhanced communication and empathy, it also promotes wellness and healing.

We are fortunate that our medical school formally recognizes the benefit of humanities training. We feel it's very important that there be a component which is student-driven and run; as the expressive arts will serve a crucial contribution to wellness amongst medical trainees

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Philosophy and Pedagogic Psychology, BA, University of Athens

Art therapy, MSc, Queen Margaret University

Therapeutic work with children and young people, PgDip, Scottish Institute of Human Relations

(currently) PhD student in Counselling and Psychotherapy, School of Health in Social Sciences, Univerisity of Edinburgh

I am Associate Editor of 'Research and Humanities in Medical Education' (RHiME), an international, peer-reivewed, open access journal. I am also co-founder of Medical Humanities Group of University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, India as well as founder of ‘Infinite Ability’(a special interest group on disability), Comicos (Graphic Medicine Club) and Coordinator of Enabling Unit (for students with disabilities).

Email: satendra@medicalhumanitiesindia.org

Webpages: http://rhime.in/; http://medicaleducationunit.yolasite.com/medical-humanities.php; http://infiniteability.yolasite.com/; http://comicos-graphicmedicineclub-ucms.blogspot.in/

Research Interests: Theatre of the Oppressed, Disability bioethics, Graphic Medicine