Mr Jamie Bird
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Job title: Lecturer
Email: j.bird@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: derby.academia.edu/JameBird/Papers/manage
Phone No: 01332 594044
Room: Britannia Mill 101
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Recent publications
Bird, J. (2009) Book Review: Freud's Art. In: British Association of Art Therapists Newsbriefing. Spring 2009, pp.84-85.
Bird, J. (2009) Book Review: Art Therapy & Social Action / Creative Explorations. In British Association of Art Therapists Newsbriefing. Spring 2009, pp.86-88.
Bird, J. (2010) Domestic Violence and the Male Researcher (conference paper) In: Response. Issue 7. http://www2.derby.ac.uk/response/issue-7-new-horizons-pgr-conference-2010/71-cp/154-dv.
- Bird, J. (2011 ) Towards Babel: Language and Translation in Art Therapy. In: Burt, H. (ed.) Creative Healing Through a Prism: Art Therapy and Postmodernism. Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Bird, J. (2011) Student perceptions of the emotional and academic outcomes of participation in a group process module In: Innovative Practice in Higher Education. Vol.1, no.1. Staffordhsire University. http://journals.staffs.ac.uk/index.php/ipihe/article/view/2
- Pink, S. Hogan, S. & Bird, J. (2011) Intersections and Inroads: Art Therapy's Contribution to Visual Methods. In: International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape. Vol.16, No.1, pp.14-19. ISSN: 1745-4832
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Health and Social Care
Subject Area: Mental Health and Therapeutic Practice
Jamie Bird is an art therapist working within the University of Derby's Therapeutic Arts subject area. He is 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 been facilitating community based art therapy groups with women from South Asia and women who have experienced domestic violence and has been involved in producing an exhibition of art work produced by artists in exile generated as part of a piece of Participatory Action Research. Jamie is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has recently conducted narrative based research into students' experiences of experiential groups which is helping to shape the way such groups are facilitated. Previous research has involved the interviewing of art therapists to explore the historical development of art therapy in the area of learning difficulties, and as part of an exploration of the issues arising from art therapy conducted bilingually. The place of imagination and the sensual within biographic research is also of much interest; this includes the use of film and video to represent memory, identity and place. A PhD research degree has been embarked upon that is focusing upon the use of arts based research methodologies to explore experiences and representations of domestic violence within East Midlands communities (due to be completed in 2014). A parallel research project has recently been co-ordinated by Jamie, alongside Occupational Therapy colleague Heather Bullen , to investigate the value of an employment training and placement group for women who have experienced domestic violence. Jamie received a Promising New Researcher award in July 2010.
Teaching responsibilities
Module Leader for:
- Perspectives of Healing - Stage 1 UG
- Experience of Illness - Stage 2 UG
- Interpersonal Development - Stage 2 UG
- Independent Scholarship - Stage 3 UG
- Evidence Based Practice and Research - MA Art and Drama Therapy.
I am part of the teaching team for:
- Working Creativelly with People - Stage 1 UG
- Working Creatively on Placement - Stage 3 UG
- Independent Scholarship - MA Art Therapy and Dramatherapy
Professional interests
Art Therapy; Economic Development and Employment
Research interests
Current research is focused upon the development and evaluation of an arts-based and participatory research methodology to represent womens' experiences of domestic abuse within East Midlands communities. This project is apart of a PhD programme of study and is due for completion in 2014. A parallel research project has been co-ordinated and condcuted in partnership with an Occupational Therapist to investigate the value of an employment training and placement group for women who have experienced domestic violence.
Other theoretical and practical areas of concern include:
- The role of the image, language and translation in bi-lingual Art Therapy.
- Art Therapy with refugees and Diaspora communities.
- The relationship between education and psychotherapy in higher education.
- Postmodernism and identity in relation to Art Therapy; including the work of Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur, and their relevance to Art Therapy.
- Spinoza, embodiment and imagination in arts-based research
- Gender and arts-based research
- Art Therapy as a tool within social science research; including visual and performative based research methods.
- Film and video production as an educational and research tool; and as a therapeutic medium.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Registered with Health Professions Council (as an Art Therapist) and a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (Region 9).
Recent Conferences
- 14-1-2010 Domestic Violence and the Male Researcher (paper presentation) at: New Horizons. Post-Graduate Research Conference. University of Derby.
8-9-2010 Gender, Knowledge & Art: Feminist Standpoint Theory synthesised with arts-based research in the study of domestic violence at Vital Signs 2. University of Manchester.
21-11-2012 The Male Researcher and Visual Stories of Intimate Partner Violence at: Gender, Sex & Power: interdisciplinary dialogues, University of Hull, 21st November 2012
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA (Hons) Arts Therapies, University of Derby
Postgraduate qualifications
- PG Dip Art Therapy, University of Derby
- MA Art Therapy, University of Derby
- PG Dip Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, University of Derby
