International Health Humanities Network Membership

Josie Crawley has been involved in nurse education in both the community and institutions for over 25 years. She is passionate about opportunities for health promotion in primary health; and her research platform explores the place of narratives within nursing education. Her research has included employing a range of narratives in tertiary education including poetry, art, children's picture books and film to facilitate nursing students' learning about death, family, sexuality, home based care, screening, health promotion, disability, grief and aging. She is currently involved in narrative inquiry research; collecting and editing rural nurse stories of changing practice across New Zealand, whilst a Principal Lecturer at the School of Nursing, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.