Reposted by Veronica HeneyMake Space @makespaceco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026One week to go until the next Writing Our Own Way workshop! We can't wait to see the creativity and care people bring to this🖊️ You can find out more about the Arts and Ourselves series on our website: www.makespaceco.org/artsandourse... 033
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026PUBLICATION DAY! I am so proud of my extraordinary colleague, collaborator, and friend @drflewis.bsky.social whose wonderful monograph 'New Materialist Encounters with the Borderline' is out today! I can't recommend this sparkling new work enough 💫✨ www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...taylorfrancis.comNew Materialist Encounters with the Borderline | Unstable Knowledges |This innovative book, written by an author with borderline experiences of her own, explores the lived experience known as “borderline personality disorder”. It 151
Reposted by Veronica HeneyStop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 06/10/202610 mental health trusts have been referred to the CQC over their use of Oxevision (now LIO) it has been revealed at the Lampard inquiry hearings this week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTen NHS trusts referred over monitoring consent - Lampard InquiryInfrared technology is used in patients' bedrooms and can monitor their breathing and pulse. 057
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I completely agree - I’m such a fan of the work Not The Void is doing, I think it is so, so needed 💜💜 010
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My new project, Re-knowing Self-harm tries to redress this failure, and to re-think the concept of social contagion from a lived experience perspective - we're still in the early stages, but you can read more about the project here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...durham.ac.ukVeronica Heney to shed new light on self-harm - Durham University 020
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I blogged for the EPIC project about social contagion and epistemic injustice, the dangers of under-researched but persuasive theories, and how people who self-harm are left on the periphery of knowledge-making about their own lives: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/cont...epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.comContagion’s complexities: When persuasive theory takes priority 163
Reposted by Veronica HeneyAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I've signed and sent a letter - from authors, broadcasters, journalists, artists, scholars and performers - to express our deep concern at @exeter.ac.uk’s troubling plans to make mass redundancies within the Humanities Dept @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social. I would love it if you read and shared widely. 9224126
Reposted by Veronica HeneyDes Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/07/2026A few weeks ago, @wellcometrust.bsky.social announced that scholars in the republic of Ireland would no longer be eligible to lead bids to the flagship discovery research scheme. We think this decision is badly flawed, and are asking them to rethink: www.irishhumanities.ie/assets/PDFs/...irishhumanities.ie 33228
Reposted by Veronica HeneyLaura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 25/06/2026More slash and burn across UK Universities. 153 jobs to be lost at Exeter; 117 targeted at Humanities and Social Sciences. Exeter is not in financial crisis; this is a choice to align with narrowly conceived government strategies and priorities. Please sign. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...change.orgSign the PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeter 22315
Reposted by Veronica HeneyLewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/06/2026🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️docs.google.comAlumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesAny Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis... 1189140
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026And don’t worry at all - there’s totally no urgency - and I am the queen of forgetting to reply to emails so I am in no position to judge 😂😭🙈🙈🙈 010
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Yes - that really echoes my take on the self-harm literature and I would not be at all surprised if the same was true re. suicide. Would be great to chat about it and maybe find a way to work together? I will be in touch! 010
Reposted by Veronica HeneyDurham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026How are doctors portrayed in memoirs, television, and popular culture – and why does it matter? Join us for a thought-provoking hybrid talk with Danielle Spencer exploring narrative medicine. 📅 25 June 📍 Durham University/Online 🎟️ Free Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heroic-doc...eventbrite.co.ukHeroic Doctors?: From Medical Memoirs to The PittA hybrid talk by Danielle Spencer about the contemporary genre of physician-author memoirs and their representations in popular media. 012
Reposted by Veronica HeneyDurham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Around 6.4% of the UK population report having self-harmed in their lifetime. But how is self-harm influenced by culture? Congratulations to @veronicaheney.bsky.social who has won a prestigious Wellcome Early Career award to re-configure understandings of self-harm. @durham.ac.ukdurham.ac.ukVeronica Heney to shed new light on self-harm - Durham University 1115
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I’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...durham.ac.ukVeronica Heney to shed new light on self-harm - Durham University 2187
Reposted by Veronica HeneyLaura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I know it's usual for a book to be published before it's launched, but we are having an early launch of our co-authored book - Waiting Times: Crisis, Chronicity and Care - at Birkbeck's Social Science week. Please do sign up if you'd like to attend in person/virtually. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...bbk.ac.ukSocial Sciences Festival 2026: Waiting Times Book Launch - Professor Lisa BaraitserSocial Sciences Festival 2026: Waiting Times Book Launch - Professor Lisa Baraitser 052
Reposted by Veronica HeneyStop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 29/04/2026A NHS Trust was ordered to pay compensation to a patient over use of Oxevision (LIO) - what does this mean for other Trusts? What does the guidance from NHS England and CQC say about its use? Plus, read our letter to NHSE asking them to take action stopoxevision.com/2026/04/29/t...stopoxevision.comTrust ordered to pay compensation to patient over use of Oxevision - Stop OxevisionAn NHS Trust has had to pay out to a patient after she complained to the Ombudsman about the use of Oxevision during her time as an inpatient. This is not unique - all Trusts are at risk of having to ... 01311
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 19/05/2026A huge success and a testament to the principled, dedicated, generous campaigning and activism of the wonderful @stopoxevision.bsky.social team 0115
Reposted by Veronica HeneyBen Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Can't wait to see this book out. Also looking forward to @veronicaheney.bsky.social own book, which will be up on the website soon! 111
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Ah, thank you so much Ben - what a thrilling thought! 010
Reposted by Veronica HeneyAsylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 11/05/2026www.nsun.org.uk/when-lived-e... Interesting blog via @nsunnews.bsky.socialnsun.org.ukWhen lived experience becomes a commoditySitting with someone who gets it, without needing everything explained, can be the moment something shifts. 0105
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 14/05/2026So exciting to see this! @drflewis.bsky.social and I have an essay in here about royal women, the visual politics of madness, and mad relationality. We're so delighted to be included among such august company! 142
Reposted by Veronica HeneyDr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist 098
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Congrats Oli - looks fab and I can't wait to read! 110
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 28/05/2025This raises questions about what the very nature of care could or should be in the context of self-harm – perhaps we need to throw away old assumptions, and find new ways of imagining care? 030
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Throughout, unlike prevailing wisdom that suggests care for self-harm requires silence, avoidance, absence & distance (i.e. not representing self-harm to make sure no-one engages in imitative behaviour), for my participants care involved being close to the idea of self-harm, engaging deeply with it 130
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Really 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...link.springer.comCreating Care for People Who Self-Harm through Transformation of Aesthetic Objects - Journal of Medical HumanitiesThe 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... 1146
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 15/05/2025This 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 183
Reposted by Veronica HeneyFran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 30/04/2025If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...forms.gleNot In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against TransphobiaWe call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran... 13343251
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Another sunny morning on the @ducu.bsky.social picket line - spreading the word about how proposed staff cuts are a choice not a necessity, and will harm staff and students alike! 163
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 29/04/2025A sunny morning leafleting on the @ducu.bsky.social picket line - we’re out on strike this week protesting proposed staff cuts, and calling on university leadership to recognise that redundancies are a choice not a necessity! 041
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Thanks Abs! Hoping we'll get to connect in person too sometime soon! 020
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025As always, my wonderful friend & colleague @courtneybuckler.bsky.social is wise and principled - I highly recommend these reflections on evidence, expertise, and institutional processes 051
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Following a blissful 6 months away from social media I am somewhat hesitantly returning - looking forward to connecting and re-connecting in this new space! Anyone interested in my work can find more info here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/veroni...durham.ac.uk Veronica Heney - Durham University 2184