Tom Scurr (he/him)

I am a clinical education academic fellow, psychiatric trainee and clinical educator within Devon Partnership Trust and University of Exeter.

I am currently completing my core training in psychiatry within Devon Partnership Trust. Alongside this, I am undertaking a part-time research role within the Health Professions Education and Wellbeing Research Group within the University of Exeter and funded by NIHR, as an opportunity to develop my research interests and experience. I am also studying for a postgraduate certificate in Health Research Methods as part of this.

I have clinical interests in the interface of physical and mental health and how patients, their carers, and professionals navigate these often very different systems. I also have an interest in how people understand themselves, the systems, and the world around them in the context of illness and recovery, and find meaning within these contexts. Humans are innate storytellers, and we constantly create and construct meaningful stories about ourselves and our lives. I am interested in understanding these stories, how we construct them in difficult circumstances like illness, and how these stories can promote and inhibit recovery. I am exploring using narrative medicine as a means to utilise storytelling as a therapeutic tool.

I have a background in cognitive neuroscience and psychology and delivering both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, and have previously worked in several roles in adult mental health services across the South West.