University of Derby

Faculty Member, Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences

Lecturer

Therapeutic Arts

Thesis Title: The Arts as an Aid to Documenting and Representing Women’s Experiences of Domestic Violence in the East Midlands

About

• Senior lecturer and Art Therapist working within the University of Derby's Therapeutic Arts subject area.

• Concerned with the ways in which art therapy can be synthesised with other areas of enquiry, including visual research methodologies and community development. As part of this theme he has facilitated community based art therapy groups with women from South Asia, and with women who have experienced domestic violence.

• Involved in producing an exhibition of art work alongside artists in exile generated as part of a piece of Participatory Action Research co-ordinated by Dr Maggie O’Neill.

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has conducted narrative based research into students' experiences of experiential groups which is helping to shape the way such groups are facilitated.

• Previous research includes the interviewing of art therapists to explore the historical development of art therapy in the area of learning difficulties, and an exploration of the issues arising from art therapy conducted bilingually.

• An interest in the place of imagination and the sensual within biographic research; this includes the use of film and video to represent memory, identity and place.

• A PhD research project is being conducted that is focusing upon the use of the arts to explore women’s experiences and representations of domestic violence within East Midlands communities. This methodology for this project synthesises feminist standpoint and arts-based methodologies, and is as concerned with imagined futures as it is with the past and present. Due to be completed in March 2014

• Jamie received a University of Derby Promising Researcher award in July 2010.

• A grant has been awarded to Jamie and an Occupational Therapy colleague (Heather Bullen) to develop and evaluate employment skills training with women who have experienced domestic violence that aims to enhance participants’ economic independence.

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