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Dr Muna Al-Jawad

Dr Muna Al-Jawad (MBBS FRCP MA)

Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
E: muna.aljawad@nhs.net
Location: Southpoint, 7 Paston Place, Kemptown, Brighton, BN2 1HA

Areas of expertise: Inclusive and anti-exclusive curriculum design and development, practitioner experience and identity, decolonising the curriculum

Research areas: Comics-based research, creative research methods, healthcare humanities, participatory research

Other relevant positions: Lead for Curriculum Development BMBS course, Lead for Inclusive Practice Partners, Course co-lead for Masters in Health Professions Education

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Biography

Muna Al-Jawad is a consultant geriatrician in Brighton, she works in multidisciplinary teams looking after older people in hospital. In 2010 she started drawing comics as part of a Masters in clinical education, and her superhero alter-ego "Old Person Whisperer" was born. She uses comics in her practice as a medical teacher and in her research. She is on the board of Graphic Medicine Europe, and organised the International Graphic Medicine Conference in Brighton in 2013 and 2019. Muna is on the board of the University of Brighton Centre for Arts and Wellbeing. She is part of the Medical Schools Council EDI alliance and is co-chairing the group writing anti-racism guidance for medical schools.

Research

Muna is interested in exploring practitioner and student experience, from identity to power relations, in medical education. She uses creative and participatory methods, particularly using comics-based research as a way to understand and analyse qualitative data. She completed a PhD by publication at the School of Art and Media in 2024. Her thesis can be seen here: Comics-based practitioner research in the healthcare humanities - The University of Brighton Muna is an enthusiastic and supportive supervisor and has supervised research at all levels from undergraduate IRPs to PhD.

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Teaching

Muna is responsible for leading the curriculum development group, which encompasses changing and improving teaching and learning across the BMBS course. Muna has designed, led or developed many modules across the undergraduate course including PPD (personal and professional development), F0- Preparation for Foundation Programme and 302 (Scientific Basis of Medicine). Muna leads and teaches on the Masters in Health Professions Education.

Selected publications

M Al-Jawad, G Chawla and N Singh 2023. BMJ Medical Humanities. Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork.

A Foreshew and M Al-Jawad 2022 Medical Education. An intersectional participatory action research approach to explore and address class elitism in medical education

M Al-Jawad, J Connor, P O’Sullivan 2020 International Practice Development Journal. https://www.fons.org/Resources/Documents/ Journal/Vol10No2/IPDJ1002006.pdf Exploring how Small Acts of Friendship encourage human flourishing on medical wards for older people

M Al-Jawad and MK Czerwiec 2019 Chapter in: Research Methods in the Health Humanities. Edited by Craig M. Klugman and Erin G. Lamb . Oxford University Press Comics as a research method in the health humanities

S Idelji-Tehrani and M Al-Jawad 2018 BMJ: Medical Humanities. https://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2018/09/22/medhum-2018- 011517 Exploring gendered leadership stereotypes in a shared leadership model in healthcare: a case

M Al-Jawad, R Winter, E Jones 2017 British Medical Journal 359:j4527 Communicating with Relatives

M Al-Jawad 2017 Chapter in: Treating Body and Soul: A Clinician’s Guide to Supporting the Physical, Mental and Spiritual Needs of their Patients. Edited by Peter Wells. Jessica Kingsley Dementia: How the Humanities Can Help Us Confront the Demons of Practice

M Al-Jawad 2015 Journal of Medical Humanities 36(4) 369-374 Comics are Research: Graphic Narratives as a New Way of Seeing Clinical Practice

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