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

Conversations across the medical humanities

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

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.

Upcoming events from the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

Katharine Murphy introduces the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities.

Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses ‘Unboxing’, a methodology taking reproductive health research to Black Caribbean women.

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

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

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

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

Joy Chen and Nkili Cooper reflect on a seminar held at Rice University’s Medical Humanities Research Institute on the topic of medical technologies and healthcare inequities.

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

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Ben Alderson-Day and Vincent Deary in conversation today.

A hybrid seminar by Dr Simon Hackett on application of creative therapies to non-pharmacological interventions for mental health improvement

Employment opportunities at the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

Georgia Poplett’s three prose collages combine acrostic poetics with surrealist erasure techniques, exploring the lived experience of postpartum psychosis.

Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana).

The Polyphony is delighted to launch the publication of a new brochure – MedHums 101: What is medical humanities?

Mary Robson reflects on the use of 'interdisciplinary objects' as a means of sharing ideas and building connections across a research team.

We are currently recruiting three Bridging Fellows with an interest in race and health, neurodiversity and lived experience research. Applications close 25 April 2025.