International Health Humanities Network Membership

Dr Aru Narayanasamy is Associate Professor of Nurse Education (Diversity teaching and learning). He holds the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship awarded by the UK Higher Education Academic for his outstanding work on spirituality and cultural diversity. Presently he is carrying out nurse education research in teaching and learning, and spiritual and cultural care teaching at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham. He acts as Health Advisor/Consultant to various agencies. He is co-editor for the Open Nursing Journal. Aru has written widely in the area of spiritual and cultural dimensions of health care and nurse education. His pioneering work culminated in teaching innovations such as the ASSET (Actioning Spirituality and Spiritual Care Education and Training) and ACCESS (Transcultural) models. These models have been adopted in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Turkey. He is supervising post-graduate research in the area of spirituality, ethnic diversity and health and nurse education. He has developed extensive Elearning resources on diversity learning and teaching, and recently he has developed an educational game on spiritual journey for students. Aru is committee member of the steering group for European Network for Spirituality Research.