Dr Jane Healy

Dr Jane Healy

Deputy Head of Department of Social Sciences and Social Work

Areas of expertise

  • 3D printing
  • 3D printing and intellectual property
  • amusements
  • ancient telescope
  • animation
  • anthropology
  • assistive technology
  • BAFTA Albert in Education partnership
  • biological signs of stress
  • blockchain
  • blockchain and intellectual property
  • Booker prize
  • brain injury
  • British Archaeology
  • celestial alignment
  • climate change
  • coastal erosion
  • comics
  • cortisol
  • cultural analysis
  • dementia care
  • dementia therapy
  • Diffusion tensor Imaging
  • digital business
  • disabled technology
  • drug analysis
  • e-readers
  • e-reading
  • entrepreneurship
  • fairgrounds
  • female comics
  • feminist theory
  • financial scams
  • flooding
  • forensic analysis
  • fruits and vegetables
  • gender studies
  • geophysics
  • girls and comics
  • gothic comics
  • governance of bodies
  • Greek Archaeology
  • healthy eating
  • hidden voices
  • influencers
  • Innovation
  • Kindle
  • learning innovation
  • legal high
  • Lesion analysis
  • magazines in the digital age
  • marine biologist
  • marine climate change
  • national centre for computer animation
  • NCCA
  • never let me go
  • NPS
  • omega-3 oils and depression
  • organisational image and legitimacy
  • Oscars
  • overfishing
  • parody
  • parody and intellectual property
  • participatory research
  • postnatal depression
  • postnatal depression in men
  • protein intake in older adults
  • Pyramids
  • reading on kindle
  • remains of the day
  • reminiscence therapy
  • resorts
  • robot carers
  • Russian Archaeology
  • scamming
  • seaside
  • social identity
  • social media influencers
  • social work
  • sociology
  • solar panels
  • sport consumption
  • sport fandom
  • sports mega-events
  • stop and search
  • stress diagnosis
  • stress hormone
  • sugar reduction
  • sweet taste
  • tank corrosion
  • tank protection
  • technology in learning
  • technology in teaching
  • urban spaces
  • VFX
  • Vlochos

Jane is working with Dorset Police on stop and search practices around county lines, and a collaborative, participant-led project in Kosovo on a Museum of Education.

Prior to this, she was co-investigator on the Respect at BU Hate Crime Project, which created forum theatre events for undergraduate and postgraduate students in hate crime awareness. With CPS Wessex she established Anti-Slavery Student Ambassadors, who work in the local Bournemouth community to promote awareness of modern slavery and human trafficking.

Jane is Chair of the CPS Wessex Modern Slavery Scrutiny Panel, and an independent Panel member of the CPS Wessex Hate Crime Panel and the Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner’s Stop and Search Panel. She is Deputy Head of Department for the Department of Social Science and Social Work at BU.

You can find Jane on Twitter: @hatecrimehealy