CV – Dr. Lorna Collins

Education

01/14-01/15: PG Cert Learning and Teaching (Higher Education), Anglia Ruskin University.
09/13-09/14: MA Fine Art, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. (Distinction).
10/08-07/11 (Viva/graduation 2012): PhD in French Philosophy, Art and Aesthetics, Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
10/07-07/08: MPhil ‘European Literature and Culture’ Jesus College, University of Cambridge (High Distinction).
09/06-07/07: BA ‘Media, Culture and Communications’, Greenwich University. (Completed in 1 year, highest mark in cohort, 1^st Class Honours).

Awards/Grants

01/21: Grand Challenges, Age and Society: Life Through Generations, University College London (£9,000).
02/15: Appointed Fellow of Anglia Ruskin University.
01/15: Appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
03/10: Entente Cordiale Language Scholarship.
01/10: Elected life member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics).
04/09: UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship (Funding PhD).
12/08: Foundation Scholarship, Jesus College, University of Cambridge (Funding MPhil).
10/08: The Odette de Mourgues Scholarship, University of Cambridge (Funding MPhil).
09/07: Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement, University of Greenwich.

Career: teaching and research

2022: Lecturer (Teaching), Co-Director, MASc Creative Health, Arts and Sciences Department, UCL
2021-22: Project Manager, Qualitative Researcher, CICADA-ME: Coronavirus Intersectionalities: Chronic Conditions and Disabilities and Migrants/Ethnic minoritisation, Social Research Unit, Institute of Education, University College London. Funded by NIHR (£700,000).
2021-2022: Co-lead, Creative Health Community, UCL Health of the Public.
2021: Principal Investigator, Grand Challenges: ‘Creative Lives: Tackling Inequalities’, University College London.
2021: Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, University College London.
2015: ‘Art and Cognition’, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
2014 – 2016: Lecturer, Course Leader, Media Studies, Art Theory and Contextual Studies, Anglia Ruskin University.
2014-2015: Lecturer, Art Theory and Contextual Studies, Cambridge Regional College.
2013: Lecturer, Art Theory, 2^nd year arts degrees undergraduates, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University.
2012: Lecturer, Course Leader, ‘Modern and Contemporary French and Francophone Culture: Articulations of the Real’ (Contextual Studies), MPhil. students, University of Cambridge.
2011-12: Lecturer at the Sorbonne, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III (Culture, Contextual Studies).
2011-12: Lecturer at Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II (Culture, Contextual Studies).

Career: arts and health

2022: Co-leader, co-producer, ‘Creative Nepal’, an arts/health network in Kathmandu, Nepal.
2021: Co-designer, Royal Society for Public Health Online Arts and Health Course.
2021: Panelist, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (art and the Mental Health Act).
2021: Research Fellow, Arts & Heritage, University College London Hospitals.
2019-21: Disciplinary Expert, Member of Selection Group and Steering Group of MARCH Network.
2019-21: Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Representative, Arts Health Early Career Research Network.
02/20. TEDxCoventry: ‘How Creativity Revived Me’. https://youtu.be/smKOkjUfzHw
2020-2021: Lead: ‘#BeCreative’ Art Workshops, for adults, children, mental health service users, during Covid-19 Lockdown.
2018: Arts in Health Project Worker, Central and North-West London NHS Trust.
2017-18: ‘Making Sense: The Art Van’, art workshops for displaced ‘Adivasi’ tribes, Chhattisgarh, India.
2016: Artist-in-Residence and lecturer, MA Art Therapy Programme, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

Career: clinical work

2022: Member, Expert Working Group, Co-Author, ‘Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders’, https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/campaigning-for-better-mental-health-policy/college-reports/2022-college-reports/cr233
2020: Facilitator: Scottish Government National Service Review for Eating Disorders.
2020: Lead, initiator: Eating Disorders Patient Forum, Oxford Health NHS Trust.
2020: Patient Representative, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Eating Disorders.
2020: Patient Representative, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Quality Network for Eating Disorders.
2020: Peer Support Worker, Bucks Community Eating Disorder Team, Oxford Health NHSFT.
2019-20: Time to Change Hub Coordinator, Bucks Mind.

Talks/workshops on mental health, recovery and the arts:

05/22. ‘Hidden Lives, Hidden Gems’ Conference (performance workshop).
04/22. International Eating Disorders Conference (workshop).
04/22. BEAT conference (workshop).
06/21. International Conference on Eating Disorders (workshop).
06/21. Lead, “Creative Lives” conference (UCL and global).
05-07/21. Presenter/producer, “Creative Lives” podcast.
05/21. Presenter at All-Party Parliamentary Group, political discussion about Mental Health Act, arts and creativity.
02/21. ‘The Butterfly Effect: Art, Creativity and Transformation’, Arts Play Health conference
12/20. Talk and respresenting patient voice at NHSE meeting about risk and funding for eating disorders.
12/20. Performance of my poem (‘What’s going on in my head’), at ‘What’s Going On In Your Head’ live poetry and performance jam.
11/20. ‘Creativity, connection and mental health’, Instagrm Live, interviewed by James Downs https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHqTCVQpcbV/?igshid=utiizxaqqbyx
11/20. Talk at the Royal College of Psychiatry, Faculty of Eating Disorders Annual Conference.
11/20. Presenting the Patient Forum, Oxford Health NHS Trust Governance Event. Awarded.
08/20. Interview with Dennis Relojo-Howell @psychreg on YouTube https://youtu.be/SZ3f1gqebLs
07/20. Creative workshop at the Mental Health Blog Awards.
07/20. TEDx Talk released on YouTube: https://youtu.be/smKOkjUfzHw
04-08/20. ‘#BeCreative’ art workshops, responding to Covid-19 Lockdown.
05/20. ‘Being Creative in Lockdown’, talk for Parker Hannifin employees.
02/20. TEDxCoventry: ‘How Creativity Revived Me’.
02/20 Panellist on ‘Mental Health and Loneliness’ Twitter discussion about eating disorders.
02/20. Panellist (expert by experience), Mental Health Question Time: ‘Should art be prescribed on the NHS?’ University College, London.
02/20. Talk on brain damage and mental illness, Bucks New University.
02/20. Talk for ‘Time to Talk Day’ event in Aylesbury, Bucks.
02/20. Leading art workshop at ‘One Recovery Bucks’.
02/20. Talk at ’64 million artists’ roundtable event, Impact Hub, Islington.
2020. Presenting a series of CBT-E groups, using lived experience, Cotswold House EDU, Warneford Hospital, Oxford.
01/20. Talk to Bucks Healthcare NHSFT staff, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, about ‘Time to Change’ and mental health.
12/19. Talk on ‘Time to Change’ to 5,000 fans, Wycombe Wanderers Football Club.
12/19. ‘Experiences of treatment for Eating Disorders’, at Art and Science of Eating Disorders: A Global Vision to Help Eating Disorder Patients and Carers, Royal College of Psychiatry Faculty of Eating Disorders Psychiatry & European Chapter of Academy for Eating Disorders.
11/19. Leading ‘Art in Mind’ workshop, Beaconsfield.
11/19. Series of talks at Buckinghamshire Recovery College, on Time to Change – building a life without stigma and discrimination about mental illness.
10/19. Women’s Institute, Summit on Mental Health, Oxford.
10/19. Workshop and presentation, Arts, Creativity and the Global Crisis; Reimagining Identity, Otherness and the Possible’, Arts Therapies conference, Pratt Institute, New York.
10/19. Talk on living at a healthy weight, my body’s own normal, Cotswold House EDU, Oxford.
07/19. Co-presenting the Oxford New Care Model to patients at Cotswold House EDU, Oxford.
07/19. Part of Oxford Health Panel, presenting New Care Model to NHS England, at NHSE HQ.
07/19. Leading art workshop: ‘‘Walking in my shoes: opening conversations about mental health’, artSmart School of Art, Beaconsfield.
06/19. Lecture on Mental Health, St. Mary’s Fellowship, Chesham.
2018-19. Lecturing and research with the medical team, on patients with co-morbidity in eating disorders. Cotswold House Ward, Warneford Hospital, Oxford.

Media appearances:

12/21. Double page feature, The Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10231419/A-pioneering-approach-having-impressive-results-anorexia-patients.html
08/21. Interview, BBC Radio Oxford, talking about my life, career and creativity.
12/20. Feature in The Royal College of Psychiatrists magazine (middle page spread).
07/20. Article in The Herald, Erin Lyons: ‘TEDx Talk on how art saved life of woman with anorexia’.
03/20. Interview, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
03/20. Interview, Radio Mix96, Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
02/20. Interview, BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire, TEDxCoventry.
02/20. Several appearances on Radio Mix96. Time to Talk Day 2020.
02/20. Interview, BBC 3 Counties Radio. Time to Talk Day 2020.
01/20. Interview, BBC Radio Oxford, about eating disorders.
01/20. Interview, Radio Mix96, talking about mental health.
01/20. Interview, Radio Wycombe Sound, talking about mental health.
09/19. Featured on BBC Radio Oxford, speaking about suicide in children’s education.
07/19. Featured in article on Adult Eating Disorders (and recovery), Insight, Oxford Health magazine.
04/19. Interview on BBC Radio Oxford, about arts and health.
24/02/19. Featured in article in Oxford Mail, ‘Former lecturer Lorna Collins speaks about 18-year battle with anorexia’.
02/19. BBC1 ‘Inside Out’, featured in coverage of Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
2018. ‘My Best Medicine’ podcast about art and healing, in Culture, Health and Wellbeing, December 2018.

Founder of the ‘Making Sense Hub’ – organising colloquia, leading aesthetic movement:

‘Making Sense 5: The Six Senses of Art’, 12/07/13, The Metropolitan Museum, New York (with Robert Storr).
‘Making Sense 4: EsSense Across Cultures’, 17/12/12, Cité Universitaire, Paris (with David Black).
‘Making Sense 3: Beauty, Creativity and Healing’, 5/11/11, Whitney Humanities Center, University of Yale (with Elaine Scarry).
‘Making Sense 2: Théorie esthétique et pratique artistique’, 19-20/10/10, Centre Pompidou, Paris (with Bernard Stiegler).
‘Making Sense 1: An international interdisciplinary colloquium for an effective aesthetics’, 25/09/09, University of Cambridge (with Jean-Luc Nancy).

Artist and filmmaker. Artwork exhibited/published and film screenings:

2022. ‘Let’s tell a story’, performance, ‘Hidden Lives, Hidden Gems conference, London.
2022. Writing the World Backwards, Young Creative Leaders Face Film Festival (international).
2021. Writing the World Backwards, This Is My Brave International Mental Health Film Festival, Australia.
2021. Writing the World Backwards, Reel Recovery Film Festival, USA.
08/2021. Writing the World Backwards, world premiere, ArtBomb Festival, Doncaster.
2021. Painting published on front cover of The practical handbook of eating disorders, PCCS Books.
February 2018. Psycho, artwork published in ‘Broken Grey Wires’, Issue 1, London.
October 2017. Touché, Experimenta Film Festival, India.
July 2017. Minding Mines in India, Impact DOCS Awards Festival, California.
May 2017. Minding Mines in India, Docs Without Borders Festival, Detroit. Won Award of Excellence.
April 2017. Minding Mines in India, TMC London Film Festival, London.
March 2017. Minding Mines in India, Arthouse Asia Film Festival, Kolkata, India.
February 2017. Touché (revised, new version), 3-Minute Film Festival, in Santa Barbara, CA.
January 2015. Touché screening at KHOJ International Artists Association, New Delhi, India.
October 2014. Trance (solo, blindfolded dance performance), Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference ‘Provocations’, University of Wollongong, Ausralia.
September 2014. Flashback (film and installation) at ‘Platform’, Masters Degree Show, Cambridge School of Art.
June 2014. Touché (16mm film), screening at ‘Changing Rooms/Changing Spaces’ exhibition, Grafton Centre, Cambridge.
April 2014. The Pulse of Prāṇāyāma performance-installation at ETHOS Hot Yoga Sports Studios, Cambridge.
April 2014. TRANCE performance at ‘Body Talk’ exhibition at ‘Changing Spaces’ gallery, Norfolk Street, Cambridge.
March 2014. Pulse exhibited in ‘I don’t know how to do this…’, at ‘Changing Spaces’ gallery, Norfolk Street, Cambridge.
February 2014. Touché (16mm film) screened at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse. World Première.