Steering Group

A small core Steering Group is presently responsible for the oversight and development of the project. It is anticipated that the Steering Group will expand in light of the conference conversations and dialogues.

Members

• Gonzalo Araoz
  Research Fellow, Centre for Health Research and Practice Development, Faculty of Health, Medical Sciences and Social Care, Universityof Cumbria, Lancaster, United Kingdom
• Rob Fisher
  Network Founder and Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
  is interested in the relationship between madness and creativity
• Nahed Khairy
  Psychiatrist; Department of Psychiatry, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
  is interested in the project as it provides a most engaging platform for the synthesis I  need to deliver my service
• Johnathan Sunley
  is qualifying to work as a psychodynamic counsellor and has a particular interest in the conceptualization and treatment of mental disorder’
• Katarzyna Szmigiero
  is an Assistant Professor at the English Department of University of Jan Kochanowski in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland and Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz, Poland.
  Her research interests concentrate on cultural representations of psychiatry and mental illness as well as writing as a form of therapy.
• Maria Vaccerella
  Hub Leader (MSO), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
  Marie-Curie Research Fellow, King’s College, London

We anticipate adding further members to the Steering Group after each meeting of the project.