Durham Institute for Medical Humanities

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Co-Production and Physical Activity Interested in co-production research in physical activity and medical humanities?

Explore how co-production can transform physical activity research and practice 🚶

Join researchers, practitioners, and communities for an exciting day of discussion, insights, and collaboration on Tue 24 March.

Register here:
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Planning to host an online-only version of this workshop in May (provisionally 20th). Let me know if you'd be interested in presenting your work - there are still several slots available!

Call for articles: ‘Relationality and the Arts of Health’ - Upcoming special issue of Journal of Medical Humanities: link.springer.com/collections/...
Submissions by September 2026
Supported by @durhamimh.bsky.social

Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series.

Join the conversation on the hidden social impacts of the energy transition. Discover solutions, insights, and strategies to overcome challenges and build a fairer energy future.

📆 Tues 17 March 5–6pm, online

Reserve your spot for this online talk today: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/overcoming...

We're excited to share a programme preview for our Measurement Heretics workshop! Starting tomorrow, this 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.

You can still book 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...

Day 2 @ Malang University Indonesia!

Talks on qualitative research, Medical Humanities, Wellcome Discovery Platform & Department Research + a super Q&A session on studying at @durham.ac.uk @dusportexsci.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @krahayuni.bsky.social

Prescribing dance? A new study looks at what health professionals think A new publication by our Moving Bodies Lab researcher, Emily Davis, explores professional perspectives on Scottish Ballet’s developing ‘dance on prescription’ model.

A new publication by our Moving Bodies Lab researcher Emily Davis, explores professional perspectives on Scottish Ballet’s developing ‘dance on prescription’ model 🩰

Find out more about the publication 👇
medhumsplatform.org/prescribing-...

ICYMI: 'Fed up with the rain? You might be meteorosensitive' Measurement Lab researcher Maximilian Hepach’s work featured in the article ‘Fed up with the rain? You might be meteorosensitive’ in The Times earlier this year.

Fed up with rain? ☔️ Maximilian Hepach, member of The Measurement Lab & co-lead of IMH Research Theme ‘Weather, Climate and Health’, studies how changes in weather affect physical & mental health.

His work was recently featured in @thetimes.com - catch up here!
medhumsplatform.org/icymi-fed-up...

Updating the Global Medical Humanities Map We're updating our interactive Global Medical Humanities map! Complete our survey to update your entry or add a new medical or health humanities research organisation by 31 March 2026.

🗺️ We're updating our interactive Global Medical Humanities Map, which plots the world’s medical & health humanities institutions, centres & networks.

To update your organisation's info or to add a new medical/health humanities unit, please complete this survey: medhumsplatform.org/updating-the...

Next week! Join us for the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion and the Medical Humanities on Friday 13 March, 6–7:30pm 📚️ The event will feature a hybrid panel discussion with the editors followed by an in-person drinks reception in Durham.

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#ReaderBank is brought to you by an interdisciplinary team @durham.ac.uk , including @aldersonday.bsky.social @georgiapunton.bsky.social, Nick Barley, @literarti.bsky.social @maryrobbo.bsky.social and @aryaray.bsky.social. Generously supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.

🌠 Voice Match

Ever read a book, vividly imagined a character, and then watched a film or TV adaptation only to feel that the character’s voice was just… wrong? This study explores how people experience the voices of fictional characters differently.

👉 readerbank.org/experience/v...

🌠 In it Together

For some stories, we connect with characters in ways that can be hard to express: we might be friends for life, see the world through their eyes, or even imagine walking in their footsteps. Help shed light on how and why this process occurs.

👉 readerbank.org/experience/i...

🌠 In Two Minds

This activity explores what happens when something makes us feel mixed, often contrasting emotions, and in what ways this affects our reading experience.

👉 readerbank.org/experience/i...

🌠Repair

Repair will ask you about your inner experiences, imagination, and daydreams. We want to understand how reading and the imagination can shape (and be shaped by) our mental health to improve understandings of how we can ‘repair’.

👉 readerbank.org/experience/r...

🌠 The Imagination Quiz

How do people imagine while they read? And does everyone imagine in the same way?

This short quiz will reveal which features of the imagination are the most prominent when you read.
👉 readerbank.org/experience/i...

A collaboration between IMH and @edbookfest.bsky.social , #ReaderBank is the world’s largest study of reading, imagination and mental health.

Explore this thread to find out how you can get involved!

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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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The Religious, Sexual, and Health History of Common Objects Dr Kristy Slominski discusses the intersection of the religious, sexual, and health history of basketball and Kellogg's cornflakes.

Next Friday 13 March, 2–3:30pm, join Dr Kristy Slominski as she discusses the intersection of the religious, sexual, and health history of two commonplace cultural phenomena: basketball and Kellogg’s cornflakes 🏀 🥣

Book your space for this event 👇️
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World Literature and Epigenetics: Women Narrating Transgenerational Trauma An interdisciplinary conference discussing the intersections between epigenetics, trauma, and multilingual narratives.

Join us on Friday 27 March for an interdisciplinary one-day conference discussing the intersections between epigenetics, trauma, and multilingual narratives.

See the agenda and reserve your spot 👇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-lite...

🏛️ 📚 Read this Open Letter! @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social & @coreenanne.bsky.social respond to the recent Wellcome report on the use of archives, manuscripts and material cultures in health research.

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This event starts tomorrow!

Reserve your free spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/consciousn...

Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.

Join the Measurement Heretics Workshop – an exploration of impact beyond numbers.

This 3 day workshop next week (11–13 March) brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data 📊

Book now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...

No Room of her Own: Care and Love in the Midst of an Onto/Ecological Crisis An Affective Experience Lab seminar where Professor Nicolas Pierre Boileau discusses Rachel Cusk’s Second Place (2021).

There are still tickets available for our event on Friday 6 March - an Affective Experience Lab seminar where Professor Nicolas Pierre Boileau discusses Rachel Cusk’s book 'Second Place' 📖

More details and book here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-room-of...

This Friday online and in person in Durham!

IMH newsletter: February 2026 News & updates from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.

Our latest e-newsletter has hit inboxes! 📨 Featuring some key publications from our researchers, some fantastic upcoming events and the latest news, you don't want to miss it!

You can read the newsletter here 👇
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The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, & The Medical Humanities Join the Institute for Medical Humanities for this hybrid book launch, featuring a panel interview, followed by an opportunity to network.

One of the many things that drew me to work at @durham.ac.uk was the quality of genuine interdisciplinarity that marks the institutional culture, particularly in the area of Medical Humanities. Join us for the launch of this book, edited by Adam Powell.
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Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.

Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event!
@durhamimh.bsky.social
#histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

Brilliant turnout for my workshop on “The Senses and Medical Humanities” yesterday with @durhamimh.bsky.social.

I’ll be hosting an online workshop in May and a further in-person showcase on 10 July at Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds. Message me for further info!