Sabina Dosani

Sabina Dosani is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, writer, and early career researcher at the University of East Anglia’s School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing. She holds a visiting research fellowship and is funded by the AHRC’s CHASE consortium. Her academic journey includes MBBS from St Bartholomew’s Hospital and two MSc degrees from King’s College London: Mental Health Studies (2002) and Medical Humanities (2018, with distinction).

• Doctoral researcher in Creative and Critical Writing
• Medical humanities expertise in neuropsychiatry and narrative medicine
• UN Sustainable Development Goals contributor for education

Her research bridges psychiatry and the arts, focusing on illness narratives, narrative medicine, and the medical humanities. She examines how creative disciplines like literature and drama can enhance understanding of healthcare systems and patient experiences. Recent work explores maternal-fetal relationships through obstetric ultrasound narratives and the dissonance between medical and patient language.

Her scholarly output includes peer-reviewed articles in journals like the Journal of Medical Humanities and BJPsych Bulletin. She received the BBC New Generation Thinker award (2022) for public engagement in interdisciplinary research. Her clinical career spans roles as an expert witness in Family Court and asylum cases, and as a Medical Member of the First Tier Tribunal (Mental Health) since 2013.

• 2022: BBC New Generation Thinker
• 2021: Mslexia Memoir Awards Longlist

Dosani’s memoir Flesh and Blood and critical essay Products of Conception exemplify her integration of clinical practice with creative writing. She advocates for arts-based methodologies in medical education and mental health discourse.