Dr June Jones

National Teaching Fellow 2015 Dr June Jones is responsible for the ethics curriculum for all five years of the University of Birminghams medical degree, providing a stimulating and exciting interactive curriculum for all students. June's innovative teaching style uses medical make-up to simulate skin disorders on a range of skin tones, where students have make up applied and engage with learning about stigma, stereotyping and the ethics of inequalities in health for black and minority ethnic patients. S he specialises in the ethical issues involved with religious and cultural diversity, exploring how the personal beliefs of medical students and doctors impact on patient care, and how beliefs of patients and clients impact on the delivery of health care in a multi-cultural society. She has actively engaged with students across all faiths to develop guidance documents which help students incorporate their faith practices into their student and professional lives. She leads the Health and Religion theme at the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University, which is actively engaged in exploring the health needs of diverse populations. June uses several different arts-based workshops for students to explore diversity. She has created a photographic art piece about the diverse cultures and faiths of students studying medicine, entitled Same Difference, which is on permanent display in the medical school. She has also worked with a potter to create a ceramic tree of life, where students and staff created the individual leaves while learning about each others faith perspectives. The Tree of Life is installed in the Multi-faith prayer facilities which June commissioned within the Medical School. June is also responsible for leading the repatriation of ancient human remains at the University, overseeing the return of Native American and Maori remains. She continues to work with the Maori repatriation team at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera, where she undertakes annual expert exchanges. She is involved in a number of exciting projects about the ethics of repatriation, focusing on claims for access to ancestral remains as an important human right.