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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Facilitating the Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School with David Woodhead was one of my highlights on 2025. I was so impressed by the students' commitment to doing this important work - have a look at the collection, and I am sure you will be too!

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Thrilled to finally be holding a physical copy of Art and the Critical Medical Humanities 📘 Co-edited with Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire, this book has been a true labour of love.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

RETHINKING RIGOUR: a two-day symposium on creative-critical research in medical humanities organised by the NNMHR. Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners. 🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online 🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

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Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Grateful for a rich few days in Oslo with the Curating Cultural Heritage for the Medical & Health Humanities project (MNU). Highlights: inspiring sessions at Norsk Teknisk Museum & MUNCH, deep dives into art, ethics & medicine—and a sauna swim to wrap it all up! medhumsplatform.org/curating-cul...

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Curating Cultural Heritage for the Medical & Health Humanities: Reflections from Oslo

Researchers from across the Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) recently gathered in Oslo for a stimulating few days of discussion, collaboration, and creative exploration as part of the Curating C...

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 @annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Extremely pleased to be joining @durhamimh.bsky.social's Visual & Material Lab in Sept to explore materialities of reproductive healthcare, specifically around donor conception - can't wait to get started!

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Proofs! (always good to receive book proofs a few hours before going on annual leave...)

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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Two postdoc positions are available on the Wellcome-funded project "Between Deception and Dissent: regulating unproven, disproven and misleading health-related claims". www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118725-...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Having an end-of-term office clean out and have discovered two spare editors’ copies of Anti-Portraiture (2020). Would be very happy to post them to good homes, if there are any takers on here? www.bloomsbury.com/uk/antiportr...

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Anti-Portraiture

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychological likenesses…

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Gutted that I can't be at RAP2025 at The Clark in Massachusetts as originally planned today. I was invited to speak on a panel on "Case Histories" convened by Suzanne Hudson and Victoria Papa, but have sadly been unable to fly out due to circs beyond my control. www.clarkart.edu/research-aca...

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Great day today at our Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference! Highlights included a keynote from Lisa Johnson and Liorah Hoek & Sanne van Driel’s workshop on what understanding experiences of plural identities can bring to critical neurodiversity studies. The Sensory Den was also a real hit!

Liorah Hoek and Sanne van Driel smiling at the camera. They are standing in front of a PowerPoint slide in a seminar room. On half of the slide is blue and the other is white with orange and green paint splotches. On the blue slide of the slide the text reads 'The Plurality Game'.

The floor in The Sensory Den – a pop up sensory room. There are yellow and red jigsaw pieces, a red glowing stool, and three marble effect tiles in pink and orange and green and blue.

A lime green and orange lava lamp on a bench, a large cube to the right, and fibre optic tails in white/light blue on the floor.

A fan arrangement of conference programmes with abstract artwork in pink, orange, light blue and black. On the right there are white circles connected with white lines. The title on the programme reads: 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference: Directions / Intersections / Contradictions, 24–26 June 2025, Durham University and Online.'

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward! mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

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Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This week we're profiling our new Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellows. First up it's a written interview with Estelle Verdi about her research on Muslim women's experiences of baby loss. medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Continuing our interviews with the new Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellows, today we catch up with Phil Samba. Read on to find out about Phil's research on the barriers and opportunities of long acting injectable PrEP for Black Queer Men. medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

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Introducing Phil Samba: New Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow

An interview with Phil Samba, our new Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

An appropriately gothic setting for the “Blood, Myth and Media” symposium today at Liverpool John Moores, convened by @beehughes.bsky.social and Stella Gaynor. Some great interdisciplinary papers on blood in horror, health, forensics, fashion and more.

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Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I'm excited to have had a paper accepted for the Artefacts conference (assoc of STEM and medicine museums) in Oslo in Oct. I'll be talking about object attachment & extreme repair in relation to this curious object, a prosthetic leg in the @sciencemuseum.org.uk collections. [more in thread]

A temporary prosthetic leg from World War One which has been heavily repaired with cement, paper and glue - brown, crusty, heavy, with very degraded materials

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Such a pleasure to present on how creativity is central to the work of @durhamimh.bsky.social at "Creativity in Research" hosted by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust yesterday. A great day with some fascinating reflections on what 'creativity' signifies in an NHS context.

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Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Really delighted to share this paper drawing on data from my PhD to explore the relation between care, texts, & self-harm. Particularly, I draw out how my participants engaged in active, creative, & relational viewing/reading practices to enable care for self-harm: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Creating Care for People Who Self-Harm through Transformation of Aesthetic Objects - Journal of Medical Humanities

The role of fiction in enabling care for people who self-harm is primarily framed as a relation of protection through absence or avoidance. It is frequently suggested that fiction should avoid depicti...

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you're an ECR and interested in ethics, photography, zines, medicine and creativity in general, this event organised by The Ethics of Medical Photography is for you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exposing-t... 11 June at Wellcome Collection, FREE!!!

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Exposing the Archive - A Workshop on Medical Photography

Join Liz Orton, a visual artist working with photography, text, and performance for a free zine-making workshop.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

London based? This Birkbeck event on Lived Experience Writing and Medical Humanities on 17th June looks really excellent: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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Lived Experience Writing and Medical Humanities

Visiting authors and artists discuss their writing and offer workshops on writing, science, and medicine.

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Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is an urgent and incisive post by my wonderful friend and colleague @kacheston.bsky.social, who writes bravely and convincingly about ME/CFS and about the flawed Opinion piece, regrettably published by the BMJ - please do read and share Katharine’s response

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Registrations now open for the 2025 NNMHR Congress! Come together online w/ researchers & practitioners from across the globe to explore questions of language & translation in #medhums. 💡 TONGUES: Medical Humanities Across Linguistic & Cultural Frontiers 🗓️ 21-23 May 📍 Online 🔗 nnmh.org.uk/tongues/

C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart featuring tongues with four different symptoms. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In a gloriously sunny Amsterdam for Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities, organised by Hannah van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Programme here: perdu.nl/en/agenda/52...

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

What a great @aahmhistmed.bsky.social conf! Highlights for me include seeing my @urochestersmd.bsky.social student Bella present her poster, sharing a panel w/ two brilliant art historians (Mary Hunter and @drfijohnstone.bsky.social), and seeing the galley prints of my monograph at the book exhibit!

Me (a white woman with blonde hair in a green skirt and top) and my student Bella (a white woman with dark hair and a grey pencil skirt) in front of her poster titled "Behind the Bars: Anonymity in Patient Imagery in the British Medical Journal, 1870-1930".

Smiling photo of three panelists seated at a table - Mary Hunter, Christy Slobogin, and Fiona Johnstone.

A table with several books and two printed galleys of books, including _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain_

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

6 days left to apply for a PDRF in Visual & Material Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social. Post-holders will conduct a programme of their own research & work collaboratively across the Lab & Platform to take the field in exciting new directions: medhumsplatform.org/were-hiring-...

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We're hiring! Two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Visual & Material Medical Humanities

We're seeking two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Visual Medical Humanities. Closing date: 28 April 2025.

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

10 days left to apply for a Bridging Fellowship in Medical Humanities! Find out more about all the job opportunities in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities here medhumsplatform.org/work-with-us/

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Work with us

Employment opportunities at the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Is anyone able to share their experiences of using epigraphs in academic texts? I'm trying to use a quote by Roland Barthes as an epigraph for a text on photography (that is, unsurprisingly, influenced by Barthes); the publisher is telling me this falls outside 'fair use' and is not permissible.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Art and the Critical Medical Humanities is almost out in the world! Edited by me, Allison Morehead & Imogen Wilshire, & with over 45 contributors, 29 chapters in a variety of formats, and 50 images, this will be available open access from Bloomsbury in December. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-and-t...

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Art and the Critical Medical Humanities

This agenda-setting edited volume makes a forceful case for the contribution that art – its practices and its histories – can make to debates and developments i…

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We are recruiting! 3 Bridging Fellowships of 12 months for recent PhD graduates to develop research, ideas and connections in the @durhamimh.bsky.social Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. Applications close 25 April durham.taleo.net/careersectio... Please share widely!

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Bridging Fellow

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Come and work with us! We're seeking 2 x Postdoctoral Research Associates in Visual and Material Medical Humanities. Applications close: 28 April 2025. The 36 month full-time posts will be based in The Visual & Material Lab led by @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Find out more about & apply!

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We're hiring! Two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Visual & Material Medical Humanities

We're seeking two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Visual Medical Humanities. Closing date: 28 April 2025.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Come and work with me! We are recruiting for 2 x postdocs in Visual and Material Medical Humanities to work with the Lab and on their own projects. We welcome applications from a wide range of disciples; click on link for further details.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The #RatsOfConfluence delighted to sample the zines made by students and tutors of the Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Back in September 2024, members of @durhamimh.bsky.social travelled to Uppsala for a workshop on curating medical heritage in relation to pressing questions of indigeneity & reconciliation. The workshop was supported by seed funding from @matarikinetwork.bsky.social. Read the full report here!

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Looking forward to running today’s workshop on Graphic Research Methods with @npapadogian.bsky.social for the @durhamimh.bsky.social Queer Methodologies PhD School @geogdurham.bsky.social

Comics-style drawing of a gender-ambiguous young adult sitting on the floor with a laptop. The laptop screen shows a stormy sky and the young person’s head is in their hands. It is a crisp line drawing with shading in colours of the trans flag

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Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It was great to run with @sagebrice.bsky.social a workshop on Graphic Research Methods and Queer Medical Humanities! I have learnt so much from the discussion! Many thanks to @durhamimh.bsky.social for making this event a safe space to address sensitive issues.

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Katie Munday @kmunday.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I've had such a gorgeous time with the amazing radical researchers at @durhamimh.bsky.social Queer Methodologies PhD School. The last few days have been energising, validating, and comforting ❤️

A long table with a plain table cloth. 20+ small colourful zines, creative, messy assemblage.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Thrilled to have been participating in @durhamimh.bsky.social ‘Queer Methodologies’ PhD School this week! Some wonderful discussion about queerness in the academy and some great fun experimenting with different methods.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It was a such privilege to have been involved in delivering this PhD School. I was blown away by the students' willingness to be present and open to others participating in the School, and by their passion and dedication to their research. Heartfelt thanks to all who joined & supported us.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

What are bodies doing when they are slow or still, and how does that intersect with public health discourse around sedentarism? Fascinating event in Durham on 28th March, organised by @cassie-phoenix.bsky.social and Emily Tupper: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slowing-st...

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Slowing, Stillness & Sedentarism: Interdisciplinary Methodologies Workshop

A series of talks and practical sessions exploring slowing, stillness, and how this relates to health and wellbeing.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

‘How can a researcher, when they are part of an institution that is only beginning to embrace interdisciplinary approaches, ensure their work in the medical humanities is interdisciplinary & authentically collaborative?' Some fascinating reflections from Dr. Anastasia Ebele Ugwuanyi:

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Dr. Anastasia Ebele Ugwuanyi reflects on her experience at Durham University's Medical Humanities International Summer School for PhD researchers, in collaboration with Linköping University, Sweden, in September 2024. thepolyphony.org/2025/01/29/c...

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David Woodhead PhD (he/him) @davidwoodhead.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

To all my friends and fellow bluesky thinkers - follow The Polyphony. It's fecking fantastic - accessible, thoughtful, informative, joyous. @literarti.bsky.social @profgillian.bsky.social @jessjallen.bsky.social @drmariad.bsky.social

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In London this weekend? Don't miss the "Fertility Fortunes" (Mis)Conceptions exhibition, showcasing art by Anna Burel exploring fertility health, including the Tarot cards photographed here. There's a brilliant programme of events over the next few days: www.misconceptionsproject.org/exhibition

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hello Bluesky! Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine. Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...

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Materialising Methods

What can practice-based research tell us about working with disciplinary cultures that are not our own? This one-day symposium explores how contemporary art practices engage with expert cultures in he...

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