About Us
Founders
Dr Claire Hansen
Claire Hansen is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Australian National University and a researcher on the Shakespeare Reloaded project. She is an award-winning educator and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include Shakespeare and early modern drama, ecocriticism, the blue humanities and the health humanities. She is the co-editor of Reimagining Shakespeare Education (ed. Semler, Hansen and Manuel, Cambridge University Press, 2023) and author of Shakespeare and Complexity Theory (Routledge 2017) and Shakespeare and Place-Based Learning (Cambridge University Press 2023). She is a co-founder and co-chair of the ANU Health Humanities Network.
Dr Bríd Phillips
Dr Bríd Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at The University of Western Australia. She holds a PhD in English and Literary Studies and the History of Emotions, an MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and a BA in English and Classics. She also has an extensive clinical background in emergency nursing. Her research is focused on Shakespeare studies with a special interest in the history of emotions, narrative medicine, health and medical humanities, Simulation, and, of course, multiple perspectives on the heart. Her monograph, Shakespeare and Emotional Expression: Finding Feeling through Colour, is published with Routledge Publishing.
Dr Michael Stevens
Dr Stevens is a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He leads a research team in the field of artificial hearts, which focus on using advanced signal processing techniques, simulations and machine learning to provide clinicians with more patient data. In his 9-year research career, he has co-authored over 50 publications and raised more than $6 million in research funding. Dr Stevens is also the Postgraduate Coordinator in the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, where he guides PhD students throughout their candidature.