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Conference papers:
Flesh and Blood, readings from work in progress, at Encounters Conference 2020
Miscarriage Memorial Rituals at the Medical Humanities Conference, Exeter 2019
The Art of Adolescence in Opotiki at The Association for Medical Humanities, Plymouth, 2019
The Art of Adolescence in Opotiki at Transcultural Psychiatry Special Interest Group Meeting (2019)
Selected academic publications:
The value and benefit of narrative medicine, BJPsychBulletin, December 2020 (commissioned editorial)
Debates in scientific practice. CAMH Editorial May 2019 – Volume 24, Issue 2 (sole author)
Lunacy, Liberty and Law: A tale of two shackles? Asylum Spring 2019 (sole author)
Editorial Commitments
I have served as a board member of the BJPsych Bulletin since 2011 and love this role.
Former editor of CAMH Journal (2018-2020), where I held responsibility for debate and clinical research update sections.
Editorial board member of Psychiatric Bulletin (2010-2019).
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BJPsych
Psychiatric Bulletin
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In 2018 I received a distinction for an MSc in Medical Humanities at King’s College London.
I started a PhD with the title ‘Flesh and Blood’ in October 2019.
My PhD uses Critical and Creative Writing to address four questions:
- What metaphors are used by doctors and patients when communicating about foetal death?
- Is there a conflict between the way obstetricians imagine and describe foetal death and the way that women experience it?
- How are parental-foetal relationships represented or denied through these metaphors?
- How might these representations inform medical understanding of grief and maternal mental health?