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Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’m so delighted to announce my new Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Re-knowing Self-harm’. I’m deeply grateful to my collaborators, including SIFT & @makespaceco.bsky.social, and the @durham.ac.uk Dept of Sociology & @durhamimh.bsky.social who will host the project ✨ www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Veronica Heney to shed new light on self-harm - Durham University

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The @durhamimh.bsky.social are sponsoring a hybrid event on Interdisciplinary Approaches to AI, asking "What happens to language, thought, agency, and creativity when machines begin to (or appear to) speak, sort, and make for themselves?" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisci...

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Interdisciplinary AI

What happens to language, thought, agency, and creativity when machines begin to (or appear to) speak, sort, and make for themselves?

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Fraser Riddell @fraserriddell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🎚️[Turns excitement-level up to 11] My brilliant colleague Dr Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social is co-editing this collection on the philosophical, historical and cultural dynamics of measurement. Do consider submitting a chapter proposal! 🎚️

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

What kind of reader are you? On #WorldBookDay, take a deep dive into the mysteries of the reading imagination with @thereaderbank.bsky.social 👉 readerbank.org 🧵

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Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

And another bites the dust? The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial

Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Last week we were delighted to welcome over 50 attendees to our Creative Facilitation event, where we discussed how creative facilitation has been used in a variety of different organisational settings. Read our event round-up and testimonials👇 medhumsplatform.org/creative-fac...

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Creative Facilitation: Beyond the Institute for Medical Humanities

Find out how creative facilitation is being used in teaching, with communities, in research settings and clinical practice outside IMH.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A major intervention in the field of dream studies has just been published, edited by Marco Bernini & @aldersonday.bsky.social. 'Dreams, Narrative and Liminal Cognition' is a collection of essays shedding light on the experiential qualities of dreams 💤 Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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New volume of essays on dreams and dreaming

A major intervention in the field of dream studies has just been published, edited by Marco Bernini and Ben Alderson-Day from our Institute for Medical Humanities.

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We're pleased to announce this collection of contributions to The Polyphony from attendees at the 2025 International PhD School on Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities, which took place in Durham in March 2025. 📖 Read the collection 👇 thepolyphony.org/category/col...

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PhD School 2025: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities – the polyphony

Conversations across the medical humanities

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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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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A clean setup with the #RatsOfConfluence, complete with sticky wall, singing bowl and multicoloured card. Brilliantly timed ahead of Thursday’s Creative Facilitation event www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. Apply by 30 Jan:

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Practice Research Fellowship Scheme

Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme

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Centre for Mental Health @centreformh.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“Am I Queer Enough?” @davidwoodhead.bsky.social reflects on visibility, ethics, and contradictions as a a middle-aged gay man in recovery and a mental health researcher. Read more in the journal from @durhamimh.bsky.social 👇 thepolyphony.org/2025/11/24/am-i-queer-enough/

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Am I queer enough? When theory and lived experience collide

David Woodhead reflects on being gay and getting older.

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"The point is how do we navigate the gap between how we live and how we theorise, how we enact our identities and the sensibilities we bring to research?" Brilliant post by @davidwoodhead.bsky.social on lived experience, queer experience and theory thepolyphony.org/2025/11/24/a...

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Am I queer enough? When theory and lived experience collide

David Woodhead reflects on being gay and getting older.

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

“The report recommended a training course on “core scientific concepts” for politicians that could be provided at the outset of an emergency.” …or just mandated before they’re allowed anywhere near evidence based decision making? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories

Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

It was worth braving the crowds at the last ever Lumiere

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

💃🎶 Last week's Research Cabaret led by @louisecreechan.bsky.social and @maryrobbo.bsky.social was a resounding success! Catch up on what we got up to as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/yntr9362

Louise Creechan and Mary Robson, organisers of Between the Lines: A Research Cabaret, standing in front of the stage at the Radisson Blu Hotel.

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Louise Creechan performing Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush at Between the Lines.

Audience members dancing at Between the Lines.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social. Find out more & register here 👇 medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The 'schedule send' function in outlook is now taking it upon itself to suggest by default a Monday morning weeks into the future. I shudder to think that this is the algorithm saying something about my average response times.

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 15/10/2025

Delighted that Rosa Ritunnano passed her viva without corrections! Her PhD on delusions is a marvel of interdisciplinary research. My favourite paper by Rosa so far is the one on Harry, the happiest man in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsky #philpsy #womeninphilosophy

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Katharine Cheston @kacheston.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The Big Survey is now live! It has been such a privilege to get to work on this with such a wonderful, inspiring team at @actionforme.bsky.social, including our brilliant Patient and Public Involvement Group, made up of people with lived experience of ME and Long Covid.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

🎉 We are delighted to launch this year’s Big Survey in collaboration with @actionforme.bsky.social! If you are in the UK living with ME or Long Covid with ME symptoms, we want to hear from you! tinyurl.com/2s4dbrkx 🧵

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2025 Big Survey

Find out how you can contribute to our 2025 Big Survey - a vital research project aiming to illustrate the impact of ME and long Covid.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Join us on 6th November for our annual Research Cabaret! An evening of live music 🎶 poetry 💬 dance 🕺💃 and chaos 🎉 exploring what it means to live between the lines. Featuring Durham IMH researchers and local performers! Reserve your FREE ticket here 🎟️👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...

A flyer for the 'Between the Lines' event for a research cabaret, featuring the name in theatre lights and the curtains seen on a theatre stage. The descriptive text says: "How do we communicate that which cannot be categorized? Experiences from the margins and/or the marginalized? When medical language excludes, are there other ways to engage with health?

Join us for an evening of live music, poetry, dance, and chaos to explore what it means to live between the lines – with researchers from Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the best local performers. Featuring a specially commissioned response from New Writing North." The location is at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Durham, DH1 5TA and the event takes place from 7pm-10pm on 6th November 2025.

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It’s been that kind of a weekend

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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Ten years on from publication - this big lad hits 1000 citations. Congrats @cfernyhough.bsky.social! Probably the longest paper we will ever write. If you get to the end you get a badge and a certificate. And hopefully you will learn something about inner speech. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26011789/

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology - PubMed

Inner speech-also known as covert speech or verbal thinking-has been implicated in theories of cognitive development, speech monitoring, executive function, and psychopathology. Despite a growing body...

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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Delighted to see this latest book in the Series now in print, and with a great endorsement from @literarti.bsky.social: 'As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.'

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Today we welcome seven postdocs to new roles in the @durhamimh.bsky.social Discovery Research Platform

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Putting on my infrastructure studies hat to boost this just-published book: The Humanities Laboratory: From Design to Archaeology, edited by Aleksandra Kil-Matlak, Jacek Małczyński, & Dorota Wolska. www.peterlang.com/document/161...

Screenshot of Peter Lang publisher's web pat for The Humanities Laboratory: From Design to Archaeilogy. The page shows the book cover and a summary of the boojk. The summary reads:

"This book explores the epistemic status and potential of humanities laboratories. It investigates the history of such laboratories, while contributing to debates on designing contemporary forms of labs. The book traces the trend for laboratories in the humanities since the mid-nineteenth century, outlining a multitude of projects across diverse times and spaces.
We are interested in what makes humanities laboratories different from their scientific relatives. Can a humanities lab and those investigating natural sciences even be considered as related? Or should the relationship between them be seen transversally, outside of the opposition between the humanities and the natural and formal sciences?
We argue that the humanities laboratory should not be based on the idea of mimesis and imitate a scientific lab, but rather operate according to the principle of mimicry. Only in this way can the humanities fulfil their self-critical function."

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Tuning in to the final event of the discontinued @theturing.bsky.social Humanities & Data Science Interest Group and @melissaterras.bsky.social is absolutely smashing it. Power & politics cannot be purged from this conversation digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...

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Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We are very pleased to welcome @harrietbarratt.bsky.social 🎉 Harriet joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Visual & Material Lab. Read about Harriet and her work in this interview: 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

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Introducing Harriet Barratt: New PDRA in the Visual & Material Lab

Discover more about new Postdoctoral Research Associate Harriet Barratt in our interview about her research and interests.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We are pleased to welcome Xiao Ge, joining our Discovery Research Platform as a Bridging Fellow in the Narrative Practices Lab and @languagesdurham.bsky.social 🤩 Read more about Xiao's work on reframing postpartum well-being in this interview 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

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Introducing Xiao Ge: New Bridging Fellow in the Narrative Practices Lab

Discover more about New Bridging Fellow Xiao Ge in our interview about her research and interests.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Excited to welcome @danielpjones.bsky.social, who joins us as a Bridging Fellow in the Moving Bodies Lab and @dusportexsci.bsky.social. Find out more about Daniel's work on embodied experiences of Tourette Syndrome & the development of creative, inclusive research methods 🤩

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Introducing Daniel P. Jones: New Bridging Fellow in the Moving Bodies Lab

Find out more about new Bridging Fellow Daniel in our interview exploring his research and interests.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A warm welcome to Michelle Reeve, who joins our Discovery Research Platform as the Digital and Communications Officer! We're looking forward to working with you, Michelle! medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-m...

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Welcome to Michelle Reeve

A warm welcome to Michelle Reeve, who joins the Discovery Research Platform in a maternity cover role as our Digital and Communications Officer.

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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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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Really enjoying the opportunity to spend time learning from and being inspired by the @dismatters.bsky.social project. All the formal presentations are available online along with links to the project's many fantastic resources

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

'“The humanities are where people learn to think critically, to analyse systems, to question authority,” @desfitzgerald.bsky.social says. “What happens if that disappears? What happens if you can simulate critical thinking without actually engaging in it?”'

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A warm welcome to Emily Davis, who joins our Discovery Research Platform as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Moving Bodies Lab and @dusportexsci.bsky.social. We look forward to working with you, Emily! 🤩 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

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Introducing Emily Davis: New Postdoctoral Research Associate in The Moving Bodies Lab

Read our interview with Emily Davis, a new PDRA in the Moving Bodies Lab.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

There's lots I could say about the wrongheaded banishment of humanities projects, people and groups from @theturing.bsky.social - what is AI if you don't think about its deployment and how it affects society, eh? Interdisciplinarity is key to building a better future. Pfffft to yer defence silos.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

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Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Rice University is seeking to appoint a ✅Tenure-track ✅Assistant or Associate Prof of #MedicalHumanities 💻Specializing in narrative and/or digital humanities approaches to medicine & health in the 20th-21st centuries Apply by 31 Oct to work with this amazing group! apply.interfolio.com/172836

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Reflecting on their work in the Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities, Folker et al offer real insight into theory-building within and through the dynamics (& difficulties) of engaged critical medical humanities research link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Engaged Medical Humanities—A Framework for Knowledge Production in Research Collaborations - Journal of Medical Humanities

In the field of medical humanities, there has been a general call to understand biocultural entanglements and to break down rigid distinctions between culture and health, as well as disciplinary bound...

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ReaderBank @thereaderbank.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Our lead researcher @aldersonday.bsky.social joins @jennykleeman.bsky.social and Emily Postan to talk about mental health and the use of digital technologies like AI for treatment. In this shifting landscape, what considerations and safeguards are needed to embed these treatments in the mainstream?

Mary, Ben, Jenny and Emily sit onstage with screens on either side, facing a mixed audience. The screens show colorful graphics.

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