Greetings!
I am a new member of this group and was asked to send a brief introduction to
the list members. I also want to thank my colleague at Salomons/Canterbury,
Louise Goodbody, for suggesting I join. The discussions of the last two months
have been quite stimulating and I look forward to contributing.
Presently I am a psychology professor at Columbia College Chicago, North
America's largest school of arts, media, and communication, but will be
joining the staff at Salomons Centre at Canterbury Christ Church University on
29 June. I have been a Chartered Psychologist in the UK since 1994.
Although trained as a clinical health and counselling psychologist I have had
a longstanding interest in community psychology. My areas of interest include
working with middle school teachers to enhance school climate; community based
health psychology interventions; the arts and community development; and an
area not quite related to psychology but very much grounded in community work:
cultural reuse (www.culturalreuse.org).
After nearly two years of negotiating with the publishing division at APA Jean
Rhodes (U Massachusetts), Lucy Yardley (U Southampton), and I edited APA's
first volume on qualitative research methodology, which was published in 2003.
Psychologists in the U.S. are quite hesitant to use qualitative methods and we
were fortunate to have several UK authors represented in this volume (Henwood,
Pidgeon, Potter, and Yardley).
I suppose by the time many of us reach 50 we develop a variety of
interests--the combination of which may look at bit schizophrenic. I would be
interested in hearing from anyone who has interests in linking the arts and
community psychology (arts in health), who works in health & community
psychology, or who works in community psychology and state supported schools.
In addition to my work at Canterbury I will also be working in the NHS.
Sorry to rattle on so! Hopefully I shall be able to attend the October
conference and meet some of you.
Best wishes,
Paul Camic
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Dr. Paul M. Camic
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programme
Salomons Centre for Applied Social & Psychological Development
Canterbury Christ Church University
Broomhill Road
Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 0TG
www.canterbury.ac.uk
www.salomonscaspd.org.uk
www.culturalreuse.org
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