Hoi Cheu
Biography
Dr. Hoi Cheu is a theorist deeply interested in the philosophy of both arts and science; he?is an interdisciplinary researcher and currently serving as the director of the Doran Planetarium.
With an interest in bibliotherapy -- the use of literature as a tool for mental and physical well-being -- he also studied systems therapy scholarly and clinically under Dr. Joseph Gold. He?has been?collaborating?with?various?interdisciplinary?health?research teams?from?the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (NOSMU), Toronto Sick Children＊s Hospital, and the Centre for Rural and Northern Health. He currecnt holds a SSHRC Partnership Grant as a co-applicant of th project "Community-engaged Research in Education, Advocacy, & system Transformation for advancing health Equity (The CREATE)." The project is coordinated at NOSMU's Social Accountability Centre.
For knowledge dissemination,?he makes documentary films and videos.?He is currently collaborating with SNO+ Experiment team?at SNOLAB?to create?a video series called "The Sciences of SNO+."? Collaborating with NOSMU's "Compassion Writing Group," he is the leading editor and contributor of a new book in progress on compassion and social accountability in medical education.? His book, Cinematic Howling: Women＊s Films, Women＊s Film Theory (2007), was nominated for the Canadian Women＊s Studies Association Book Prize.
Education
- Ph.D. (Literary Theory, Western University): thesis -- Zen and the Art of James Joyce
- M.A. (English Literature, University of Waterloo)
- B.A. (English Literature, University of Waterloo)
Academic Appointments
Full Professor, 51勛圖app
On The Web
/planetarium
Research
Research Focus: Bibliotherapy, Arts-Based Research, Digital Storytelling, Literary Theory
Current Journal?Projects: Literature as Tool for Environmental, Physical, and Mental Health, a special issue?of?Environmental and Social Psychology.
Current Team Projects:?
The Transformative Potential of Socially Accountable Education (Northern Ontario School of Medicine, funded by SSHRC New Frontiers, PI: Erin Cameron)
?Preparing Students for Rural Careers: Examining the Learning Processes and Outcomes in Rural Medical Education in Canada??(Northern Ontario School of Medicine, funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant, PI: Erin Cameron)
Investigating the Implementation of an Arts-Based Mindfulness Group Program in Elementary and Secondary Schools, funded by SSHRC, Insight Development Grants.?(PI: Diana Coholic, Laurentian; Co-investigators: Hoi Cheu, Laurentian; Mark Eys Wilfred Laurier; Robert Schinke, Laurentian).
Recent Video Project in progress: The Sciences of SNO+
Sample:?
Background Radiation and the Cloud Chamber:?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyLtt_pWQTI&t=12s
Photomultiplier Tube (PMT):?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2d6PksfU4o&t=17s
Research Gate:?https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hoi-Cheu
Awards
- Teaching Excellence (2011, 51勛圖app)
- MacIntosh Lecture Award (1997, Western University)
Teaching
Teaching subjects:?(1) Interdisciplinary Theories, (2) Bibliotherapy, (3) Modernism and Postmodernism, (4) Science and Environmental Documentary Films and Filmmaking, (5) Science Writing
Publications
Selected?Publications and Media Productions
(from 1 Book, 4 chapters in book, 2 scholarly encyclopeida entries, 14 articles, 35 conference papers, 48 documentary films/videos as?director or cinematograher) -- updated July 23.?2023
Sample Articles:
Cheu, Hoi et al.? "Teaching compassion for social accountability: A parallaxic investigation," Medical Teacher.? Oct 26, 2022.? Open Access:?DOI:?
Strasser, Roger, Hoi Cheu.? ※The Needs of the Many: NOSM Students＊ Experience of Generalism and Rural Practice.? Canadian Family Physician.? 2018 Jun: 64(6): 449-455. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29898937
Stories as a Scientific Method in Arts-Based Health Research,§ Journal for Applied Arts and Health. ?Vol. 8, No. 2? 2017, pp. 209-224. https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=169/
Book:
Cinematic Howling: Women's Films, Women's Film Theories (UBC Press, 2007).? http://canlit.ca/reviews/a_good_story_about_womens_films
Chapter in Book:
"We Choose to Read: Bibliotherapy and Memories of Loss," in Gwendolyn Broadmore (ed.)?Life Came to a Stand Still: True Accounts of Loss, Love, and Hope.? Friesen Press, 2017, pp. 197-203.? https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000047007987/Gwendolyn-Broadmore-Life-Came-to-a-Standstill
Collaborative Research: The Making of the Northern Ontarion School of Medicine (McGill-Queen's, 2009). http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2430
Films for Research:
Truly and Humbly: Memories of the First Apology (2017).? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORG18pfPYDo
The Rural Challenge and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine?(2015).? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3LE3vPt_4