We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new IMH Co-Director, Dr Shauna Concannon.

This exciting new research project – based in iHuman and the School of Education at the University of Sheffield – aspires to create a more inclusive, creative and diverse university through engaging disability, neurodivergence and research culture

Moving Bodies Lab researchers Emily Davis and Kate Marks report on the QRSE Conference at the University of Toronto, Canda.

News & updates from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.

Measurement Heretics: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well (Day 1) — "A fluid history of measurement: The drop in the metric revolution"

Esports coaches have become a prominent feature of the esports landscape, yet currently not much is known about esports coaching practices, research, and education. Consequently, esports coaches ha...

Ben Alderson-Day and Georgia Punton explore imagination through two articles recently published in The Psychologist.

A new online seminar series has been launched by INQRDPE, focusing on key topics in qualitative research, disability, and inclusive physical education. The first session, titled “Positionality & Reflexivity in Qualitative Research,” will be delivered by Dr. Antonios Ktenidis on May 6, 2026, from 9:00 to 10:00 (GMT-4). The seminar will examine how researchers’ identities and experiences influence the research process, highlighting implications for ethical and rigorous practice.

We invite proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of measurement for a new edited collection. Deadline 15 June 2026.

Keen to move and be moved? Join us for a dynamic 1-day event exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces, and communities.

Within the Western academic landscape, a binary seems to exist: either we are the researcher or the ‘lived experience’ participant. Academics who carry their own lived/living experiences therefore ...

Recordings from the one-day workshop The Senses and Medical Humanities, organised by the Affective Experience Lab at Durham University, are now available to watch online.

News & updates from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.

BBC Sport speaks to fans, the police and others to examine how common sexism is in football, why it happens, and what can be done.

Conversation Analysis (CA) has increasingly been recognised as a valuable qualitative approach for examining interactional practices in sport and exercise contexts, yet it remains methodologically ...

YouTube video by Disability Rights UK

The replication crisis has led to more focus on methodology in psychological research. Meta-researchers urged for more direct replications, larger sample sizes,...

Celebrating Jane Macnaughton's contribution to the Medical Humanities at Durham.

Interested in co-production research in physical activity and medical humanities?

A webinar titled “Use of Technology in Paralympic Sport” will take place on March 24, 2026, at 17:00 (Chile time), organized by Kinvent. The session will be delivered in Spanish and will explore how technological tools are applied in Paralympic high-performance sport. The webinar will be presented by Dr. Daniel Bueno, physician in the Paralympic area of the Applied Sport Sciences Unit at the National Institute of Sport of Chile.

Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information cur…