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Staff Profile

Jane Bourne

Advanced Clinical Accademic Arts Therapists

  • Email: jane.bourne@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Populations of Health Sciences Institute, Baddily-Clark building, Newcastle University, NE2 4AX
Background

Jane Bourne, PhD, is an Advanced Clinical Academic Arts Psychotherapist and Principal Dramatherapist with Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. She has worked at the Trust since 2007. She has received several research awards, currently holds a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Clinical Practitioner Research Award for 4 years, and is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University. She is a regional research champion for the NIHR Internship program, where she supports and develops AHPs. She is an Associate Researcher at Edge University and has delivered, supervised and trained people in their Arts for the Blues program. She is an external examiner for their PhD students.


Her clinical and research expertise spans arts-based psychotherapies, trauma-focused interventions, and mental health in people with learning disabilities. She has led and collaborated on multi-country studies, including a £1 million MRC/ESRC-funded feasibility study on arts-based programmes for children in conflict-affected regions, and has secured over £1.4 million in competitive funding.

She is a regular peer reviewer for the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities and serves on the editorial board of Dramatherapy. She has recently completed co-editing a book on manualised arts therapy interventions for theory, practice, and training.


She is a registered Arts therapist with the HCPC, a BABCP-accredited cognitive behavioural therapist, a fully trained EMDR therapist (EMDR Europe, 2025) and completed a postgraduate certificate in Creative Supervision from Central University. Dr Bourne is also a member of the Learning Disability National Senate, a Subject Matter Expert for NIHR, and has developed the new guidelines for the STAMP and STOMP projects in reducing overmedication. 


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