Joseba Achotegui

Prof. Joseba Achotegui, and Dr Dori Espeso and Prof. Nick Jose will be discussing Migration in psychiatry and literature with the chance for a Q&A afterwards. This panel is being given as part of the extra-curricular course, Certificate in Global Citizenship with support from the Brain and Behaviour series

Prof. Joseba Achotegui, University of Barcelona

Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Barcelona. Prof Achotegui conducts done clinical work and conducted research in the area of migration and mental health. Prof Achotegui has been a member of the CIPP (Psychopathological and Psychosociological Research Group) of the Vidal and Barraquer Foundation in Barcelona since 1982, specialising in migration and mental health. In 1987, this group obtained a research award from the Spanish Neuropsychiatry Society for the project; “Migration and Mental Health”. The study was subsequently published in 1993, by the University of Barcelona Press, under this same title. In 1994 Prof Achotegui founded and become the director, of SAPPIR (Psychopathological and Psychosocial Assistance Service for Immigrants and Refugees) at the Hospital Sant Pere Claver, in Barcelona. And in 1997 he was given the Solidarity Award by the Catalan Regional Parliament, for his work with immigrants. Since 197I he has been the director of the post-graduate course “Mental health and psychological interventions with immigrants, refugees and minority groups” at the University of Barcelona. And from 1998 to 2004 has been advising on issues regarding migration and family regrouping for the European Parliamentary Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, He is also the coordinator of the international task force on “The Ulysses Syndrome”, sponsored by the European Parliamentary Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights

Dr. Dori Espeso Montagud, University of Barcelona

University of Barcelona is a professor at the University of Barcelona teaches the Master’s program in "Mental Health and Psychological Interventions with Immigrants, Refugees and Minorities.” She is also a Professor for Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychologists in the Public University of Catalan Health Service. She has a PHD from the University of Valencia in Spain and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Dr. Espeso has been Head of Section, at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Child Psychiatrist in the Institute of Healthcare in Girona, Spain and a child psychiatrist at Service Psychopathological and Psychosocial Immigrant and Refugees. She is also a member of the Communitarian Program for Immigration and Health in Girona, Réseau Européen, the World Psychiatric Association -Transcultural Section (WPA-TP), and the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WCPA).

Prof. Nicholas Jose, Adelaide University

Nicholas Jose is a novelist, essayist and playwright, whose thirteen books include the novels Paper Nautilus, Avenue of Eternal Peace (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award), The Custodians (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize) and Original Face; two short story collections; a volume of essays, Chinese Whispers; and the memoir Black Sheep. After gaining his doctorate at Oxford University, he taught in the Department of English at the ANU 1978-1985. His monograph Ideas of the Restoration in English Literature was published in 1984. Professor Jose taught in China 1986-87, and served as Cultural Counsellor in the Australian Embassy Beijing 1987-1990. A full-time writer from 1991, he resumed his academic career as Chair of Creative Writing at Adelaide University in 2005. A past president of International PEN Sydney, he is general editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (also published as The Literature of Australia). He was Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University 2009-2010 and taught there again in 2011. He is Adjunct Professor with the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and Professor of English and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities at The University of Adelaide. www.nicholasjose.com.au

This is co-sponsored as a Global Citizenship event.