Notes to My Prostate

Notes To My Prostate

written by,John J. Guiney Yallop

Poetry Reading and Chapbook Launch

Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

The Box of Delights Bookshop

466 Main Street, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Notes To My Prostate, a poetry chapbook of twenty-five poems written after my diagnosis with prostate cancer, through surgery, and to recovery, is now available from The Box of Delights Bookshop, 466 Main Street, Wolfville, NS B4P 1E2, Phone: 902-542-9511, E-mail: boxofdelights@ns.aliantzinc.ca, Website: www.boxofdelightsbooks.com (Two dollars from the the sale of each chapbook will be donated to prostate cancer reasearch or to a support group for men diagnosed with prostate cancer.)

Dr. John J. Guiney Yallop is a parent, a partner, and a poet. Dr. Guiney Yallop’s research includes poetic inquiry, narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and performative social science. He uses these methodologies to explore identities, communities, and emotional landscapes. This book of poetry is a collection based on his recent experiences with prostate cancer. Dr. Guiney Yallop is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Acadia University.

Read an IJCAIP article by Dr. John J. Guiney Yallop

CES4Health New Publishing Resource for Community-Engaged Scholarship

November 3, 2009 marked the public launch of CES4Health.info, a free online resource for publishing diverse products of community-engagedscholarship. The first twelve products accepted by CES4Health.info -including a film about health impacts of the built environment in
post-Katrina New Orleans and a cultural competency curriculum for health professionals - reflect the depth and breadth of knowledge made possible through community-academic partnerships. And yet regrettably, such products rarely "count" in the faculty promotion and tenure process nor are they routinely disseminated beyond the communities with which the work was conducted. CES4Health.info aims to change this situation by tackling these challenges head-on.

As CES4Health.info editor Cathy Jordan, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Director of the Children, Youth and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis explains, "Community-based participatory research, service-learning and other community-engaged forms of scholarship require diverse products that reach and benefit community members, practitioners and policy makers. However, since these products
are not typically peer-reviewed and published the way journal articles are, promotion and tenure committees are unable to determine their quality or impact and often discount them. A product peer-reviewed and published through CES4Health.info is comparable to an article published through a peer-reviewed print or online journal. Our editorial and peer review processes mirror those of most journals and are based on accepted standards of scholarship." Recognizing that the "peers" in community-engaged scholarship come from the community and the academy, all
products posted on CES4Health.info have been reviewed and recommended by expert academic and community reviewers.

Faculty members who author products that are published through CES4Health.info can note them in the peer-reviewed publications section of their curriculum vitae and describe them as peer-reviewed scholarly products. CES4Health.info also provides authors with a measure of impact by tracking how often each product is accessed and how it is used.

CES4Health.info is a component of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's Faculty for the Engaged Campus project. The project aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy and is supported by a grant from the US Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The seed for CES4Health.info was planted by the WK Kellogg Foundation-funded Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions, which recommended in its 2005 report, "Linking Scholarship and Communities," that such a mechanism be
established.


Diverse products of health-related community-engaged scholarship in English from anywhere in the world can be submitted to CES4Health.info at any time - a two-step process that involves completing an online application form and submitting the actual product. CES4Health.info
defines 'health-related' broadly to include, for example, health care, public health, health policy and the social determinants of health - such as education, food security, housing, income and its distribution, and social support.

Visit the CES4Health website to find out more.

Research Text, Creative Arts Interdisciplinary Practice, Call for Abstracts

CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research Series

Publisher: Detselig Temeron Press

Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP

International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D.

Call for Abstracts

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Research for Community Change Across Cultures

The CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research text series was launched with the inaugural text “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” published by Detselig Temeron Books, Editor Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor Robert Kelly, scheduled for release in April 2010. (http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com )"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" introduced the emerging field with illustrative examples, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the applications of the creative arts in research action and interdisciplinary practice. About the book

New Call for Abstracts:

In the second research text in the series, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research for Community Change Across Cultures" there will be a particular focus on arts and community based research that transforms and empowers individuals and communities. We are interested in arts and research within neighbourhoods and cities, across continents and beyond borders. Currently we are seeking illustrative and accessible research accounts of new work offering hope for change across cultures and communities locally and globally.

These are a just a few of the themes and subjects areas of special interest:

• arts research and community based research CBR/ arts and participatory methods
• arts in research and practice re-building or bridging communities in conflict (visual arts, dance, performance, narrative/poetry, installation etc.)
• arts in research and interdisciplinary practice across cultures for global change
• ethnographic/oral history field studies leading to arts for social justice, anti-oppression work, empowerment
• arts in research for improved health and quality of life, poverty, homelessness, environment, disability, youth, crime, aging, urban studies

• arts in research used in distinctive and innovative ways, transformative new methods and creative approaches to help investigate, explore, articulate and communicate research findings while working actively within communities and beyond borders to foster change.

Submissions for Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Research for Community Change Across Cultures

Send an abstract (max. l pg.) as a Word attachment, with a short bio and a brief list of references to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com with “submission Research for Community Change Across Cultures” in the subject line.

Deadline: February 20, 2010 Selected candidates will be contacted with a request for full articles and additional information will be provided at that time. Due date for full articles will be e/o April 2010. Please be aware that we are seeking research related articles.

Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, Haifa University, Tenure Track Position

Invitation to Submit Candidacy for a Tenure Track Position or a Sabbatical

Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies

Haifa University

The Faculty of Health and Welfare Sciences and the Faculty of Education are happy to announce the opening of a search for candidates for a tenure track academic position or a sabbatical in The Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies at Haifa University, Israel for the 2010-2011 Academic Year.

The candidates will be required to teach in the Masters Degree program, as well as develop research programs, obtain, research grants, and supervise advanced level students within the courses of study.

The position is open to candidates having the necessary qualifications

Requirements:

• Completed PhD or confirmation of PhD by 1.9.2009
• Relevant academic background in therapy and in the course of study.
• Peer reviewed publications in scientific journals.
• Teaching experience in Hebrew.
• Proven Master Level (Thesis) supervision of research.

Candidates are requested to submit the following documents.

• Introductory letter containing a description of areas of research, proposed future research plans, and a description of your potential contribution to the School.
• Detailed Curriculum Vitae including list of publications, previous places of employment, teaching experience including the course subjects, participation in conferences, research grants. The format of the CV should be according to that listed on the School’s web site:

http://artherapy.haifa.ac.il

• Documents or diplomas confirming degrees in the relevant orientation
• 1-3 publications
• Names and electronic addresses of three recommenders.

This announcement is open to women and men without distinction of religion, ethnic origin, and/or age.

The materials should be sent by snail mail to The Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, Haifa University, Har Hacarmel, Haifa, Israel and by email by March 6, 2009 to:

Professor Rachel Lev

Head of Search Committee

rlev@univ.haifa.ac.il

Playing for Change, Music Around the World

To celebrate the season we would like to share with you this video with music from the award winning documentary "Playing for Change". Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.

Community Based Research Tells Street Stories for Change

I recently came across this article in The University of Victoria Alumni Magazine,
Torch at http://web.uvic.ca/torch/torch2009f/feature_4.htm Once again we learn how creative community based approaches and participative methods (story, photography, video) can help offer a place for human stories and lived experiences to be voiced and witnessed.CM

From the website:


"Since completing her PhD and joining the faculty of the School of Nursing, (Bernie) Pauly’s remained directly involved in homelessness: leading community-based research projects that engage community groups; playing an instrumental role in developing public policy, primarily through former mayor Alan Lowe’s 2007 Task Force on Homelessness; and currently as chair of the research and evaluation working group of the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, which aims to end homelessness in the region by 2018."

"At the core of her approach to research Pauly tries “to understand the solutions from the perspective of people who have experienced homelessness. Because they have lived it.” A new community-based research project that she’s initiated — Street Stories — aims to do exactly that."

"A group of people who are, or have been, homeless will use photography and videotape to document their experiences and, essentially, create their own research data. Pauly hopes it will empower them to communicate the everyday challenges of being homeless."

Quotes from The University of Victoria Alumni Magazine, Torch, Autumn 2009,
Volume 30, Number 2

Physician Speaks Out About Universal Healthcare

Sunday, November 8, 2009

In issue 8 of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP, "Physicians Speak Out About Arts and Medicine," we were pleased to feature the article "Stories and Society, Using Literature to Teach Medical Students About Public Health and Social Justice" by Dr. Martin Donohoe MD, FACP, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Community Health, Portland State University and Senior Physician of Internal Medicine at The Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Centre.


In this video Dr. Donohoe speaks about the merits of a Universal Health Care System.

Posted by Cheryl McLean at 9:53 AM