Dr Nick Rowe

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Name:

Dr Nick Rowe

Email:

N.ROWE@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of the Arts

Organisation:

Converge

Address:

Lord Mayor's Walk York YO31 7EX

Country:

England

Biography

Job title:

Associate Professor and Director of Converge

Biography:

I am Director and founder of Converge, a project working in collaboration with the university and the NHS to offer educational opportunities to adults who use mental health services. For this work received an MBE in 2019. I have a background in psychiatric nursing and Dramatherapy and have taught in both occupational therapy and arts departments. I am a performing member of Playback Theatre York. My research interests lie in mental health evaluations, theatre and health and more generally in arts and health.

Qualifications:

BA hons, York University, 1974-77 Registered Mental Nurse, 1981-84 Post Graduate Diploma in Dramatherapy, 1985-87 Doctor of Philosophy, Bristol University, 2003

My Latest

Rowe, Nick (2023) Converge: Releasing the Potential of University Arts Education to Benefit Adults with Mental Health Problems. Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 5 (1). pp. 1-8.
Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544, Rowe, Nick and Birch, Paul (2022) The promise and pain of devising as deliberative democracy: Out Of Character Theatre Company’s Fresh Visions trilogy. Research in Drama Education, 27 (3). pp. 286-303.
Larkinson, Louise and Rowe, Nick (2003) A ‘playback theatre’ project with users of mental health services. A Life in the Day, 7 (3). pp. 21-25.
Rowe, Nick (2000) Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Dramatherapy. Dramatherapy, 22 (2). pp. 13-17.
Wright, Cathy and Rowe, Nick (2005) Protecting Professional Identities: Service User Involvement and Occupational Therapy. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68 (1). pp. 45-47.
Nash, Steve and Rowe, Nick (2000) Safety, Danger and Playback Theatre. Dramatherapy, 22 (3). pp. 18-20.
Wall, Tony, Fries, J., Rowe, Nick, Malone, E. and Osterlind, E. (2020) Drama and Theatre for Health and Wellbeing. In: Filho, Walter Leal, Wall, Tony, Azul, Anabela Marisa, Brandli, Luciana and Özuyar, Pinar Gökcin, (eds.) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals . Springer
Rowe, Nick (2010) Playing the Other: Dramatizing personal narratives in playback theatre [Arabic version]. Cairo, National Centre for Translation
Rowe, Nick (2008) 당신의 이야기로 놀아드립니다 플레이백 시어터의 세계 [Playing the Other: Dramatizing personal narratives in playback theatre]. Jessica Kingsley
Lambley, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7585-9093, Kaley, Elizabeth, Morris, Rebecca, Robinson, Anna, Rowe, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2680-8545, Sellar-Edmunds, Jean, Wynn-Werninck, Tim and Anderson, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-3335 (2019) 'Wow, it's at the University'! Experiences of people with mental illness of an educational arts programme. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 10 (3). pp. 315-332.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Creating a Healing Campus: A Partnership between a University and a Provider of Mental Health Services	338
2	Bridging the divide : supporting people who use mental health services to enter higher education	266
3	A return to ordinariness: How does working alongside people who use mental health service effect theatre students’ attitudes to mental illness?	244
4	Border crossings: arts and health work in a university	210
5	Forgetting the machine: patients' experiences of engaging in artwork while on renal dialysis	172
6	The drama of doing: occupation and the here-and-now	138
7	Integrating medical humanities into physiotherapy and occupational therapy education	133
8	Converge: University arts education and adults with mental health problems.	129	33
9	Playing the other: dramatizing personal narratives in playback theatre	122
10	Researcher as storyteller and performer: parallels with playback theatre	113