Staff Profile

Maureen Park's research is cross-disciplinary, exploring links between visual arts, healthcare, medical humanities and adult education. As well as her lectures for the Centre, she also contributes to the teaching programme in the Colleges of Medicine, Arts and Social Sciences. She lectures extensively outside the university, including for the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has delivered numerous conference keynote addresses. Her book, Art in Madness, on Dr W A F Browne's collection of asylum patient art at Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries in the mid-nineteenth century, was published in 2010. She has published in The Lancet, British Medical Journal and Medical Humanities. A former museum curator, she is also involved in museum and education research, contributing to education journals and books. She is currently involved in a Canadian/UK project on museum and library educators, led by Dr Darlene Clover and Dr Kathy Sanford, University of Victoria. 

Maureen is a Director of Art in Hospital and a Trustee of Art Extraordinary and a founding member of the University of Glasgow's Medical Humanities Unit. She is contributing to the forthcoming Royal Edinburgh Hospital Bicentenary lecture series 2012-2013. Her current research is on the links between adult education, moral treatment, art activity and phrenology.

 

Selected Publications: 

M. Park. (2013) ‘In a new ‘Age of Enlightenment’: Challenges and opportunities for Museums, cultural engagement and lifelong learning at the University of Glasgow’, in D. Clover and K. Sanford, (Eds.) Arts-based education, research and community cultural development and the contemporary university: International perspectives, Manchester: Manchester University Press (in press).

 

M.P. Park, R.H.R. Park. (2011) ‘Art in Wartime: The First Wounded, London Hospital, August 1914, Medical Humanities Journal, 337, 23-6.

 

M.P. Park, R.H.R. Park. (2011) ‘Fear and Humour in the Art of Cholera’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 103, 12, 1447-9.

 

M. Park. (2010) Art in Madness: Dr W.A.F. Browne's Collection of Patient Art at Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries. Dumfries & Galloway Health Board, Dumfries. Hardback, 268pp. ISBN 9781899316694.

 

M. Park, R. Hamilton. (2010)  ‘Moral treatment of the insane: provision for lifelong learning, cultural engagement and creativity in nineteenth-century asylums’, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 16, 100-13. Special international edition.

 

M.P. Park, R.H.R. Park. (2008) ‘Fantastic Feeding Funnels’, British Medical Journal, 337, 1447-9.