International Health Humanities Network Membership

Rose Richards has an MA in English Literature and her PhD (Psychology) is on narrative and identity in organ failure and transplantation. After a considerable period of ill health, she underwent a kidney transplant in 1991 and these experiences form the basis of her doctoral work. Other research includes illness narratives, identity studies and teaching writing. She has published academic work and short stories. Some of her writing has appeared in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, New Contrast, Qualitative Health Research, The South African Journal of Higher Education and Modjaji Press’s The Bed Book of Short Stories (2010). She works with university students to help them develop academic writing skills.