Giselle Corincigh

Academic qualifications

• MSc Health Promotion Brunel University
• BA (Hons) Contemporary Studies Hertfordshire University

Profile

Giselle has had a varied and long career working in various settings. Working in private and public industry, with people with learning disabilities and working in the NHS at practice, strategic and director levels. Her academic career has always been multidisciplinary which is reflected in her professional expertise of Health Promotion.  At Brunel Giselle was the pathway leader for the undergraduate degree in Health Promotion for many years designing and delivering all core modules for the pathway. Hence she has a deep theoretical and practical understanding of the range of Health Promotion activities. Topics taught around Health Promotion have been; Lifestyle Change Management, Social Determinants of Health, Advanced Health, Project Management in Health Promotion and Teaching & Learning in Community Health (Health Promotion). Her corpus of teaching expertise also includes lecturing on Learning Disability, Disability Theory, Focus Groups, Grounded Theory, and Feminist Perspectives of Health.

Here current teaching is focussed on Research Methods (Quantitative), Communication Skills and Clinical Effectiveness, Values Based Practice, Evidence Based Public Health, Public Health Ethics, Chronic Hidden Illness, The Philosophy of Public Health and Art & Public Health Ethics.

With the changing landscape in healthcare delivery and the re-emergence in the 21^st century of Public Health as the dominant activity Giselle has become interested in the practical and philosophical relationship between Health Promotion and Public Health.

Through her interest in global issues she has also become interested and engaged with teaching around the practical and philosophical dilemmas of attempting to sustain human health as well as the natural flora, fauna and planetary resources.

Research interests

The Ethics of Professionalism in Public Health & Health Promotion, Feminist Perspectives in Health Promotion, Valued Based Ethics, Ethics and Evidence Based Medicine, Philosophy of Health Promotion & PH, Narrative Medicine, Critical Thinking for Ethical Development in Health Professionals, Ecological Public Health and Ecohealth.

Research projects and grants

Giselle is currently working on four projects:

1. An exploratory piece of narrative research to gain insight into student’s understanding of critical thinking and the way critical thinking could be taught in a more meaningful way by universities.
   
   
2. A commentary/philosophical paper on how the community of Ecohealth practitioners and academics can work more harmoniously within their context of complexity.
   
   
3. A summary paper presenting a model of teaching created to help support the development of internal ethical dispositions in students.
   
   
4. A commentary/philosophical paper on the how to develop humane Public Health population control. A paper that considers both the pressing issues of our exploding global population but also discussed the managing of personal traumas when implementing any PH population control policies.