Arts and HumanitiesThe Robert Gordon University

Overview

Teaching

• School of Nursing and Midwifery

2002-2009: The Expressive Arts in the Caring Context

3rd year module, Bachelor of Nursing

arts ‘route’ from 2nd year

broad range – art, literature, poetry, film, photography, care environments

Teaching

• 2009-present: Critical Perspectives in Mental Health/Adult/Children and Young People’s Nursing

exploring humanities amongst attention to: science, topical issues

impact on practice

Teaching

• School of Health Sciences BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy 2nd year – film – ageing, ethics, culture 3rd year - film – Shawshank Redemption chaos, complexity, environmental influences on health

Teaching

• School of Health Sciences BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy (contd) 4th year – broad range application to students’ practice e.g. elderly, war veterans, mental health assessed: seminar presentation literature review

Teaching

• Inter-Professional Education

plans to offer The Expressive Arts in the Caring Context module as IPE module, late 2010

Research

• School of Nursing and Midwifery

School research theme on ‘evidence-informed wisdom in health care practice’

Nature of wisdom

Academic staff ‘reading group’ exploring wisdom in literary fiction

academic papers in progress

Research

• PhD

• Andrew McKie: 2005-present:

A narrative exploration of the relationship between reading literature and poetry and ethical practice: Narratives of student nurses and nurse educators

Research

Making Sense of Well Being – Arts, Healthand Pedagogic Research2009 -

multidisciplinary research team: Gray’sSchool of Art, Faculty of Health and Social Care, independent consultants

Publications

• C. Macduff 2007. In Wards, Out Wards: Poems and Stories from Nursing and Beyond. The Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide

Publications

• Gallagher, A. & McKie, A. 2010. The potential of literature and poetry. In: T. Warne & S. McAndrew eds. Creative Approaches to Health and Social Care Education. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke