Members of SoFU

Paul Crawford is Professor of Health Humanities at the School of Health Sciences and Director of the Centre for Social Futures.

Julie Gosling leads the SOFU integrated research group, 'Open Futures' which enables voices of lived experience to be heard, and to collaborate within Social Futures research and knowledge sharing initiatives.

Heike Bartel is Associate Professor of German at the University of Nottingham with special interest in the study of interdisciplinary narratives of illness, health and recovery in German and other languages.

Josephine NwaAmaka Bardi is a mental health nurse, anthropologist, and a senior lecturer at the London South Bank University.

Brown has spent the last three decades in a variety of roles in higher education, which have encompassed research leadership as well as the development and management of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes.

Professor Susan Hogan has research interests in the history of medicine and has written extensively on the relationship between the arts, insanity, and the role of the arts in rehabilitation.

Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger is a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded interdisciplinary project 'Animated Storytelling for Mental Health Literacy among Young People' (PI: Professor Paul Crawford).

Roshan das Nair is Professor of Clinical Psychology & Neuropsychology.

Most of my current research is being conducted as part of the NEON programme, which is building a large and diverse on-line collection of mental health recovery stories, and exploring their integration into recovery-oriented mental health interventions.

Ian has been a member of the University of Nottingham since 1992 and is Professor of Health Policy.

Professor Winship has worked in the NHS for 30 years (acute and community services with people with severe and complex traumas), latterly consultant psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital and HMP Dovegate.

Dr Elvira Perez Vallejos is an Associate Professor of Digital Technology for Mental Health and Digital Technologies at Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre Mental Health and Technology theme (Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, Faculty of Medicine).

Professor Arcelus is interested in the interpersonal, social and cultural context of mental health and wellbeing.

Elaine Argyle has a first degree in sociology, master's degrees in social policy and social work, a diploma in health studies and a PhD in social policy/social gerontology from the University of Sheffield.

Rex Haigh is an NHS medical psychotherapist who studied social sciences at Cambridge, and then trained and worked as a GP before moving to psychiatry, psychotherapy and group analysis.

Dr Melanie Jordan undertakes undergraduate and postgraduate teaching as well as PhD supervision, plus personal and collaborative research and publication in the fields of criminology and sociology.