International Health Humanities Network Membership

Currently postgraduate student at University of Brighton, applying for doctoral funding to work across disciplines (fine art, creative writing, medicine). My initial training is in medicine (Southampton) and I was a consultant in chronic pain management/ psychotherapy for 17 years. I am a qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist, and also have an MA in spirituality. I have a BA and MA in Fine Art. I am particularly interested in breaking down boundaries, both academic and clinical, between disciplines. I see my work as taking place in the territory of the 'inbetween' and I am not interested in rejecting existing narratives, but rather in using the best (and worst?) of each to create new understanding.

Personally my work is informed by the experiences of being a woman and mother of four children in what was then a male dominated profession. I am also a manic depressive which I see as an aspect of my being that I celebrate rather than a disability.