Excited to be launching this new series of online talks, running Feb-July 2026. We'll be talking to a bioengineer, an immersive reality specialist, a visual artist, a glass artist, and a speculative designer on how a whole range of visual & material practices can transform healthcare. Sign up below!
09.12.2025 14:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Introducing Lab Coat Lunches: A new free online event series from the Visual & Material Lab! 🥼
Starting in February 2026, these events will explore visual and material practices within and beyond the medical humanities.
Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/lab-coat-lun...
09.12.2025 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Deprescribing in Pain and Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
An interdisciplinary conversation with health researchers and practitioners to discuss deprescribing in chronic pain and mental health.
Are you a healthcare worker and/or interested in chronic pain and mental health?
📅 Next week on Thursday 11 December, join us at @durham.ac.uk for a conversation around 'Deprescribing in Pain and Mental Health' 💊
Find out more & reserve your free ticket:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deprescrib...
05.12.2025 12:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crip guts, stomas, and the violence of ‘returning to normal’
In a new publication, Órla Murray, IMH Honorary Fellow, reflects on her diagnosis of ulcerative colitis in the context of a feminist queer crip approach.
In a new publication, Órla Murray, IMH Honorary Fellow, reflects on her diagnosis of ulcerative colitis in the context of a feminist queer crip approach.
Read our news article and the access the full article here:
medhumsplatform.org/crip-guts-st...
03.12.2025 15:29 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Durham to Linköping: Advancing Research on Intersectionality, Disability and Social Change
Postdoctoral Research Associate Kate Marks has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to Linköping University in Sweden.
Postdoctoral Research Associate Kate Marks, part of the Moving Bodies Lab and @durham.ac.uk Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to Linköping University!
Read more from Kate in our news article here:
medhumsplatform.org/durham-to-li...
02.12.2025 19:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcoming Darren Scantlebury-Watson
Welcome to Darren Scantlebury-Watson who joins the Discovery Research Platform in the role of Finance Coordinator.
Welcome to Darren Scantlebury-Watson, who joins the Operations Team in the Discovery Research Platform as a Finance Coordinator. We're excited to have him on board! 🥳
medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-da...
02.12.2025 09:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A view of Vadstena Sweden
Applications are now open for our 2026 International Medical Humanities PhD Summer School!
The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se.
Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...
01.12.2025 13:23 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
A reminder that this fantastic event is taking place on Thursday and Friday next week - the programme has just been finalised and we are very excited for it! 🤩
28.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
📣 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:
27.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 9 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
Hope Collective - Durham University
Our partners at the National Poetry Centre and the South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Teaching Trust are seeking contributions to the Hope Collective 2.0 – exploring how, when and in what format poetry could support connection 🫶
Submissions close 11 December 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
26.11.2025 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Am I queer enough? When theory and lived experience collide
David Woodhead reflects on being gay and getting older.
“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/
25.11.2025 16:28 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Towards Tourettic Studies: The Future of Tourette Syndrome Research - Durham University
Why not start next week off with a discussion about the future critically engaged directions for #TouretteSyndrome #research? The event features the wonderful Rena Zito, Danni Phoenix-Kane, Dan Whittaker and Diana Beljaars (and your's truly!)
@durhamimh.bsky.social
www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...
21.11.2025 10:50 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Monday for this online symposium 'Towards Tourettic Studies' 👇
19.11.2025 12:48 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
IMH Newsletter November 2025 (Events)
Upcoming events from the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.
2025 may be winding down but our events calendar is not! 📆
From reading groups to seminars, online talks to in-person conversations, there is plenty going on at the IMH throughout the rest of November and December.
Read our latest newsletter to find out more 👇
mailchi.mp/e9a1d07e9700...
18.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Not long left to apply to be an editor at the Polyphony!!
13.11.2025 11:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New IMH Co-Director - Durham University
Delighted to announce the appointment of a new IMH Co-Director Katrin Wehling-Giorgi. We look forward to working with you, Katrin!
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
14.11.2025 13:24 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see Élaina's expertise along with our @the-polyphony.bsky.social piece 'Being a masking crip killjoy' making an appearance here! 🤩
13.11.2025 17:36 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Just under a week left to apply for 3 x Editorial roles @the-polyphony.bsky.social! Come and join our stellar team!
11.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Louise Creechan and Mary Robson, organisers of Between the Lines: A Research Cabaret, standing in front of the stage at the Radisson Blu Hotel.
Ruben Verwaal holding a beaker of yellow liquid, performing at Between the Lines.
Louise Creechan performing Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush at Between the Lines.
Audience members dancing at Between the Lines.
💃🎶 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 👇
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11.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Alex Broadbent ed collection - Durham University
Congratulations to our v. own Alex Broadbent on the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine! 🎉 👏
11.11.2025 09:53 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Claire Jeantils and @sarawasson.bsky.social reflect on the experience of translating Wasson’s article “Before Narrative” into French, exploring the challenges and opportunities the process revealed for the field of medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/05/t...
05.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Transformative Humanities PhD Scheme - Durham University
📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026.
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
05.11.2025 09:05 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Tricks and treats with the #RatsOfConfluence
02.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
IMH Violence, Trauma & Memory: The Causes and Impacts of Moral Injury
A seminar on the impact and causes of moral injury (the enduring presence of negative emotions) and the possibilities for repair and change.
📅 Join us on Tuesday 4 November for a seminar on Violence, Trauma & Memory: The Causes and Impacts of Moral Injury. This hybrid event is free to attend either in person at the Institute for Medical Humanities, or online.
Find out more and book tickets:
31.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Between the Lines: A Research Cabaret
One night only! Come along for an evening of live performance, music, and research as you’ve never seen it before.
Tickets for this event on 6th November are going fast - please make sure to secure yours soon if you are planning to attend! 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...
If you have a ticket but can no longer attend, please cancel your spot so we can reallocate it 🙏
See you there! 🤩
31.10.2025 10:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'Between the Lines' in lights, with purple theatre curtains and a black and white photo of Georgia Punton in a photo frame
@georgiapunton.bsky.social – Imagination and sleep researcher 💭
31.10.2025 10:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We teach and research Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic, Japanese, Italian and Russian languages and cultures.
We are a World Top 70 language department (QS).
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Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology (@DurhamU) thinking about bodies, minds, hormones, environments, more-than-human sociality.
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ICSSR Doctoral Fellow in Health Humanities. PhD candidate researching crisis narratives, disaster fiction & resilience studies. UGC-NET (98.6 percentile).
Autistic PhD student at unisouthampton.bsky.social researching young people's digital queer-neurodivergent resistance practices.
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Anthropologist at Durham University, UK (he/him). Epistemology, cognition, population dynamics, cultural evolution, disease emergence.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jeremy-kendal/
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Professor of Anthropology @Durham University. Interested in care, development, health, livelihoods, animals, epidemics, Africa...
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ESRC funded PhD at @lancasteruni.bsky.social 🧠 | Researching Cortical Hyperexcitability and Multisensory Hallucinations | All things TMS and tDCS
Cognitive, clinical, computational neuroscience: I study how we understand language and make decisions, and what happens in the brain if things go wrong.
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Curious neurodivergent PhD researcher & consultant exploring neurodivergent experiences of nature, wellbeing and interoception.
Passionate about punk, silliness, cats & nature.
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