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Group Members
The Arts and Humanities for Health (AHH) Research Group comprises members from diverse fields, including performance, visual arts, literature, history, psychology, education, and public health. Our members are united by a shared commitment grounded in collaboration and real-world research experience. Whether working with ageing communities, co-producing projects with carers, or exploring policy language, our members bring a rich diversity of expertise and perspective.
Explore our member profiles to learn more about us, our work, and how to connect.
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Prof Robert Dean
Deputy Head of the School of Creative Arts
Leader of AHH Research Group and researcher/educator within the intersection of arts, health and humanities.
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Rachel Scarrott
Senior Lecturer in Film Production
AHH Research Group Lead. Documentary and CGI Producer/ Director. Rachel innovates with 360° VR for education & therapy.
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Jack Brett
Research Liaison Officer for the AHH Research Group.
Research Liaison Officer for the AHH Research Group, Associate Lecturer and PhD Researcher in Music
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Alexa Mottram
Senior Lecturer in Product Design
Alexa has contributed to Design and Contextual Studies at the University and is involved in the EDI Committee.
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Dr Ali Ghatari
Senior Lecturer in Operations Management
Operation Management; Digital Business; AI in industry; Applied Decision Making, Sustainibity
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Dr Alice Bell
Associate Professor in Fine Art
Arts & health researcher in art & addiction recovery, PGCert Arts Psychotherapy, multimodal practice & PhD supervision.
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Dr Amy Culley
Associate Professor in English
My research interests are in women’s writing of the 18th and 19th centuries, life writing, and literary age studies.
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Prof Dr Ananda Breed
Professor in Theatre
Ananda works at the intersections of performance studies, creative health, transitional justice, and youth studies.
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Dr Anna Smirnova
Senior Lecturer
Anna researches arts-based youth engagement, social policy, wellbeing, and peacebuilding internationally
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Prof Anne Chick
Professor in Social Design
Anne is considered an early key international contributor to graphic and packaging design research and practice.
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Dr Assunta Ruocco
Lecturer in Fine Art
Exploring child–parent co-creation to support wellbeing and sustainable models for artist–parents and the public.
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Mr Ben Broomfield
Senior Lecturer in Script and Screenwriting
Ben is a screenwriter who has worked in the film industry for over 8 year.
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Bethany Davison
Graduate Teaching Fellow
I am interested in contemporary literature that engages with respiration, energy cultures and trans-corporeal encounters
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Prof Carenza Lewis
Professor for the Public Understanding of Research
Carenza combines research and teaching in archaeology, history and heritage with public engagement.
Dr Chavan Sharma Kissoon
Senior Lecturer in Digital Education and CoASSH Research Fellow
As a sociology of work scholar, my research interests centre around different facets of contemporary working lives
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Dr Chiara Beccalossi
Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary European History
The history of the medicalisation of non-reproductive sexual behaviours and gender nonconforming individuals
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Daniele Pantano
Associate Professor in Creative Writing
I am a poet, essayist, literary translator, and critic, with primary research in poetics and translingualism.
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Dr Emily Timms
Associate Professor in Creative Writing
Lecturer and Researcher in postcolonial ageing, care, dementia in Caribbean & Pacific literature/film, and poetry.
Eva Lilienfeld
Senior Lecturer in Animation
Mental health, women’s identity, invisible disabilities in young people through traditional drawing, digital painting
Gwen Tooke
PhD Research in Creative Arts
My research is about the process of grief and how stitching and making it may support the processing of grief.
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Dr Holly Parker
Holly Parker is an Associate Lecturer
key interests include: affect, neoliberalism, contemporary culture, literature, psychogeography, neurodiversity
Dr Imogen Wiltshire
Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture
Researcher in the intersections of art, health, medicine, post-Holocaust artists, and therapeutic art-making/modernism.
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Dr Jacob Thompson-Bell
Senior Lecturer in Music
Composer, curator, and researcher, creating music and multimedia works across performance, release, and installation.
Jade King
Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing
Multi-disciplinary artist, editor, and poet. My work and research interests gravitate towards the poetics of trauma.
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Jeremy Goffin
Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design
Surf based investigations, informed by and through practice.
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Dr Joshua Heyes
Senior Lecturer in Education
I conduct interdisciplinary research on the philosophy, policy and practice of sexuality education
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Kat Hendy
Senior Lecturer in Dance
Community dance artist leading outreach and educational projects across Lincolnshire.
Katie Bennett
PhD student in Creative Writing
The female body as a means of resistance to patriarchy in Victorian mesmerism (1837-40) in historical fiction.
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Dr Kelly Jones
Senior Lecturer
My research specialises in theatre history, particularly Gothic theatre and theatre and horror.
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Dr Mahdieh Zeinali
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Enterprise
Mahdieh researches EU8 migrant women entrepreneurs, intersectionality & embedding in the UK.
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Megan Schlanker
Graduate Teaching Fellow
specialising in children and young people as a museum audience in the 20th century.
Dr Mehrshad Parvin
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Econometrics and Health Economics
Health economist applying econometrics to evaluate healthcare services, costs, and policy impacts
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Michael Rowe
Director for Digital Innovation and Simulation in Health and Care Sciences
Michael's research explores digital technologies in education, critical pedagogy, and AI in clinical practice and HE.
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Prof Ola Ogunyemi
Professor of Journalism
Ola is the founder of an international multidisciplinary Journalism Education and Trauma Research Group (JETREG).
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Rachel Baynton
Associate Professor - Creative Engagement Producer
Rachel is an award-winning artist, producer & academic, who focusses on co-creation & contemporary cultural production.
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Dr Sanem Sahin
Senior Lecturer in Journalism
Sanem's research is in refugee journalists, peace and conflict reporting, human rights, and the roles journalism.
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Stephen Fisher
Digital and Innovative Design Learning Advisor
Specialising in the intersection of technology, media, and human interaction.
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Dr Steve Fossey
Associate Professor in Fine Art
Expertise in Arts and Health, Participatory Arts, Site Specific Art, Co-creation, Socially Engaged Practices.
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Dr Steve Klee
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Posthumanism, aesthetics, cognitive science (body representation, embodiment), art-science methodology
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Dr Sue Bond-Taylor
Senior Lecturer/ Programme Leader
Sue researches criminology, youth justice & family policy; leads child rights projects & won multiple awards.
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