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Our Team
An eclectic mix of scientists, artists, academics and practitioners.
Dr Nicola Holt
Associate Professor of Psychology, DRAW Lead
Head of UWE Bristol Centre for Music, DRAW Co-Lead
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Dr Clare Johnson
Associate Professor of Art and Design
Expertise: feminist approaches to art history, inter-generational approaches to contemporary art and visual culture, and maternal representations.
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Christine Ramsey-Wade
Associate Professor in Counselling Psychology
Expertise: Mindfulness, ACT, eating disorders, mindful eating, therapeutic creative writing, poetry therapy, counselling psychology, existential phenomenology, EMDR.
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Dr Catherine Warner
Programme Leader for MA Music Therapy
Expertise: Training approaches in music therapy using humanistic and psychodynamic models, microanalysis of music therapy, community mental health practice using music therapy; participatory action research in music therapy.
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Dr Luke Annesley
Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy
Dr Mike Chase
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Expertise: Innovative mixed methods, service evaluation, and reviews of practice in areas as diverse as, dementia services, homeless drop-ins and community psychiatric services.
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Alison Rouse
Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology
Expertise: Counselling and psychotherapy, creativity and the arts in counselling, trauma.
Dr Michael Buser
Senior Research Fellow
Dr David Greenham
Professor of English Literature
Dr Samuel Rogers
Senior Lecturer in English
Anouk Mercier
Alumni
Expertise: Drawing, artist in residence at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London.
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Bethan Zalantai
Health Psychology Masters Alumni
Emily White
Health Psychology Masters Alumni
Expertise: Art on referral, qualitative research.
Caroline Elliott
PhD student & Research Assistant
Expertise: Heritage, archaeology and wellbeing. Social prescribing, art and nature wellbeing interventions, thematic analysis.
Senior Technical Instructor in Physical Fabrication
Expertise: Arts on Referral Artist Facilitator and Creativity for wellbeing Practitioner.
Student Project Coordinator and Associate Lecturer
Expertise: Creative thinking and creative project facilitation, general wellbeing coach, oral storytelling.
Associate Professor in Health Psychology
Expertise: Health psychology, qualitative research, patient and public involvement. Co-chair of the UWE Healthy University Group.
PhD student in Education
Expertise: Developing creative participatory inquiries with people who find themselves on the margins for one reason or another, and issues of inclusion and access are central in my work