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Department of Geography

Staff Profile

Dr Felicity Callard, MA (Oxon), MA (Sus), PhD (Johns Hopkins)


Researcher ID profile
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography
Telephone: 43509 / 47063
Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 41801
Room number: S109

(email at felicity.callard@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Felicity Callard is Senior Lecturer in Social Science for Medical Humanities; her departmental home is geography. She has a background in both the humanities and the social sciences: she took a first class degree in geography at the University of Oxford, before moving to the University of Sussex to take a masters degree in English (Critical Theory). Her doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University, in cultural / medical geography (directed by Professors David Harvey and Ruth Leys), entailed working at the intersection of the humanities, history of psychiatry, cultural studies and social theory. Specifically, she explored the genealogy of agoraphobia and phobias from their emergence as named conditions in the 1870s to the emergence of Panic Disorder in DSM-III, IIIR and IV. She is in the process of extending this research into a monograph -- by focusing in particular on the early clinical pharmacological research in the US (pursued by Max Fink and Donald Klein at The Hillside Hospital) and on behavioral therapeutic interventions for anxiety and phobias. 

She has broad research interests in the history and living present of psychiatry, psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience. One strand of her research comprises an interrogation of new models of self and the experimental subject within the cognitive neurosciences and biological psychiatry. She collaborates with Dr Daniel Margulies (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig) on a critical exploration of the field of resting state functional neuroimaging research, and with Dr Constantina Papoulias on a historical and conceptual study of the nascent interdisciplinary domain of neuro-psychoanalysis. She and Constantina also have an ongoing project to understand the "affective turn" within the social sciences and the humanities, and its use and deployment of neuroscientific findings.

She has also worked independently as a researcher and consultant in mental health, and continues to participate in mental health policy at a European level. She has an honorary affiliation to the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (where she is Visiting Researcher in the Patient and Carer Participation Theme of the Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health).

Academic employment

Honorary Visiting Researcher, Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, April 2012–

Post-doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2011–2012

Senior Research Fellow, Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, 2007–2012

Lecturer in Human Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, 2003–2005

Lecturer in Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001–2003

Activities & Interests

Volkswagen Foundation: Second European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and the Humanities

The Second European Platform comprises a multi-disciplinary group of researchers from across Europe who are clustered into research groups that are addressing - through interdisciplinary projects - problematics raised by recent developments in cognitive neuroscience. Felicity is a member of the research group "Experimental Entanglements in Cognitive Neuroscience", and works with Dr Des Fitzgerald to interrogate models of collaboration and interdisciplinarity in neuroscientific experimentation.

NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health Committees

Chair, CRIS (Clinical Record Interactive Search) Oversight & Advisory Committee.
This is the governance committee for CRIS, a research database composed of pseudonymised South London & Maudsley electronic medical records.

Mental Health & Human Rights

Felicity is the Chair of the Board of MDAC (Mental Disability Advocacy Center).

MDAC is an international human rights NGO that advances the human rights of children and adults with actual or perceived intellectual or psycho-social (mental health) disabilities. MDAC currently focuses on Europe and Africa. It uses a combination of law, advocacy, capacity-building and research to pursue six human rights goals:

  1. Right to legal capacity
  2. Right to live in the community
  3. Freedom from ill-treatment
  4. Right to inclusive education
  5. Access to justice
  6. Right to political participation

Skills

Public Engagement with Science / Patient & Public Involvement (PPI)

Felicity has been involved in a number of public engagement with science (PES) & Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) activities. Most recently, she was part of the Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health team that collaborated with The Opera Group in its development of The Lion’s Face, a new opera that addresses Alzheimer’s disease (see: The Lion’s Face).

She has also worked within the Service User Research Enterprise at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and has a long-standing interest in service user research in mental health.

Research Groups

Research Interests

  • Cultural theory
  • Emotion / Affect
  • Medical Humanities
  • Critical neuroscience
  • Historical, geographical, sociological studies of psychiatry and mental health

Indicators of Esteem

  • 2011: Chair of the Board of Trustees, Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC):

Selected Publications

Articles: newspaper

Journal papers: academic

Journal papers: popular

  • Callard, F., Lovestone, S. & Pritchard, M. Giving dementia a voice. Mental Health Today. 2010;34-35.
  • Callard, F. & Friedli, L. Community treatment. Mental Health Today. 2005;23-26.

Books: authored

  • Callard, F., Sartorius, N., Arboleda-Flórez, J., Bartlett, P., Helmchen, H., Stuart, H, Taborda, J & Thornicroft, G Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law: Fighting for social justice. Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

Books: sections

Reports: official

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Grants Awarded

  • 2012: Research Development Fund Award, Department of Geography, £1000
  • 2012: Volkswagen Stiftung. Workshop: "Experimental Entanglements in Cognitive Neuroscience", Second Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities, €10,000 (Co-PI)
  • 2011: "Joseph Wolpe’s revolution: from psychoanalytic to behavioral models of agoraphobia", Wallis Annenberg Research Grant, USC Special Collections, $1000
  • 2011: Fellowship, awarded by Cephalon to attend "Neuroscience Bootcamp", University of Pennsylvania
  • 2010: Enhancing patient benefit from translational research. NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Strategic Award. 1 year, £50,000 (CI)
  • 2010: Personality disorder among South East London residents. South London & Maudsley Charitable Funds. 3 years, £160,090 (CI))
  • 2010: Personality disorder among South East London residents. South London & Maudsley Charitable Funds. 3 years, £160,090 (PI: Paul Moran)
  • 2009: European Neuroscience & Society Network Award to interview Prof Dr Donald Klein on panic disorder (€1500) (PI)
  • 2009: Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award, with The Opera Group, £90,000 (CI)
  • 2008: Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health (South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust & Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London). Pump-Priming Award, NIHR Specialist Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health To conduct pilot study on service users’ and carers’ views of genetics research and its implications in schizophrenia (£8000) (PI)
  • 2006: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant [held with C Papoulias]