Drawing the Child’s Mind: Visual Tools in Psychology (1890–1960) 12 Feb 6:15-7:30pm Join Dr Camille Jaccard (@ucl-ias.bsky.social VRF) to explore history of observation, screening & treatment techniques in child psychiatry, esp. children’s drawings & projective tests. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'. 12 February 2026, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance 13 Feb 12-1pm This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data can drive, represent & inform musical expression across music making and education domains. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Looking at Britain through health and healthcare: changes and challenges 12 Feb 5:30pm A panel of experts discuss the most urgent health issues facing Britain today, and how our understanding of health and healthcare is changing in the contemporary landscape. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Rewriting Race in Early Modern Medicine 5 February 1-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth': a history of post-war psychiatry UCL French & Francophone Research is delighted to announce the 2026 Noble Lecture with prize-winning French novelist Adèle Yon. 29 January 2026, 5pm-7pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health 2 Feb 6:15–8:15pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social welcome Susi Geiger & Théo Bourgeron to present their new book, which traces the long-wave movements between the pharmaceutical industry, its discontents and regulators. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s 29 Jan 6:15–7:30pm We welcome Prof Jonathan Bell @uclamericas.bsky.social, who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Time, Narrative & Emotion in Early Modern England 22 January 2026, 1pm–2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Hybrid Seminar: Urban Mental Health 2 Dec 12-2pm UCL & online Exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

‘So-called Puerperal Insanity’ Diagnosing Postnatal Mental Illness (late 19th-early 20thC) 27 Nov 6:15pm With case studies from London & Liverpool asylums, Hilary Marland examines response of asylum doctors to debate about role of childbirth in prompting mental illness www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Scent as Portal: a memory workshop Nov 23 from 2pm to 4pm GMT No.1 Poultry, London. An interactive workshop and sensorial journey featuring guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises. With our Creative Fellow Claire Sunho Lee, and Jon Kempton. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scent-as-p...

NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice 3 Dec 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources Show-and-Tell 20 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

#London! Join Alison Bashford tonight, Nov 13 at 6:15pm, with @ucl-ias.bsky.social & @uclhhcentre.bsky.social as she discusses her new book, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic. #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #BookTour #palmistry buff.ly/Bw0sA38

Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story 13 Nov 6:15pm-7:30pm Join Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story 13 Nov 6:15-7:30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Join our seminar with Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice 11 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus' 6 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Scent as Portal: A Memory Workshop 24 October 2025, 2:30 pm–5:00 pm Through a series of guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises, participants will explore how fragrance can stir memory and emotion and give form to the formless. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice. 📅27 Oct, 2-4pm 📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Gendered Time & Medicine in Early Modern Germany 23 October 2025, 1pm-2pm Join @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for the Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940 25 September 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Charms & Experiments in English Medieval Medical Manuscripts 11 September 1-2pm at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social Join this Historical Health & The Body Reading Group session for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

🎙️ “The point of public health is to create a place where people can live life in their fullest extent…” @admbriggs.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social In our latest episode of #PublicHealthDisrupted, we are reminded that public health is about enabling life, not restricting it.

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group 17 July 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social The article for this week's session is Heather Taylor's (2025) 'An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost': 'Non-medical' Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change 14 July 10am-6:30pm online Join us for a hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Parental and Child-Free Activism 5 August 2025, 10am–12pm Third session of the reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Justice at UCL. All welcome. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change 14 July 2025, 10am–6:30pm A hybrid, interdisciplinary research symposium focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing in the face of anthropogenic climate change. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group Join at the Wellcome Collection for the Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. 3 July 2025, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group Join @historyfinn.bsky.social and Katherine Wills at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for their Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. 19 June 2025, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Remnants of Catastrophe: The Materiality & Memorialisation of the COVID-19 Pandemic 12 June 6pm @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social 5 years on, what do we make of the material remnants the pandemic left behind & the memorials that have grown in response to its memory? www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/...

CfP: Exploring Indigenous Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Anthropogenic Climate Change 14–15 July 2025 at UCL 🚨Submit your abstract by 10th June 🚨 Join this two-day interdisciplinary research symposium and sandpit, funded by an IAS Octagon Grant. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Sensory Health: Introducing the Health Humanities Creative Fellows 29 May 2025, 6pm-8pm The UCL Health Humanities Centre is delighted to introduce the two new Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellows. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Writing Histories of Abortion and Reproductive Health Today 27 May 2025, 10am-12pm Second session of the new reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group 22 May 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social We will be discussing Liane Maria Bertucci's ‘Herbs, Roots, Amulets, and Prayers in the Practices of “Saint” Vicente and other Healers in São Paulo in the 1910s’ www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

🌎 Join @ucl.ac.uk Geography: Lecturer in Geographies of Health 🌎 We're looking for a Lecturer to help us explore the intersections of health, environment, cities, and development. Apply by May 5, 2025 🔗 Full details: tinyurl.com/ucl-hea #GeographyJobs #HealthResearch #UCLCareers #HybridWork

New Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice Students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages, from any university/institution welcome. Session 1: Reproductive Justice and the Environment. 13 May, 10am @uclamericas.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

‘I have a kind husband, a beautiful baby, no financial problems and still I want to die’ Maternal Mental Illness in Letters, on the Radio and through Telephone Hotlines in 1970s Britain. With Dr Fabiola Creed @uofglasgow.bsky.social 1 May 6-8pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills & Cures 7 May 5:30-8pm Azzedine Haddour examines the interconnections between the development of modern France’s republican and democratic institutions, the rise of the Second Empire, and the colonisation of Algeria www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group TODAY! 26 March, 1-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers (pilot event). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Histories of the Welfare State 27 March 2025, 6:15pm-7:30pm UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Dr Emily Baughan, University of Sheffield, to give this lecture. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Consequences of Shocking the System: Comparing Evolution & Disasters 3 March 5pm Prof John Martin & Dr Rozana Himaz use their research in medical science & economics to explore how shock can affect people across a lifetime, future generations & even across millennia www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences) Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚 Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The health humanities, the critical medical humanities and the future of the field 27 February 2025, 6:15pm-7:30pm We are pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the last in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The health humanities, the critical medical humanities and the future of the field 27 Feb 6:15–7:30 pm UCL Health Humanities Centre is pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the last in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢Calling all UCL ECRs & PhDs in A&H and SHS 📢 (if you are not in A&H or SHS you just need to find a suitable collaborator who is!) The IAS Octagon Grant is open for applications 🎉🙌🏽 Apply by 24 Feb - get writing! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellowship in Health Humanities Apply by 16 Feb 2025 We invite an artist / writer to develop their creative practice on a theme related to the health humanities. We're offering £5,000 to work on a project linked to our core research themes. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

“In the beginning was the chaplaincy”: the religious origins of the medical humanities, 1960-1980 23 January 2025, 6:15pm-7:30pm We are pleased to welcome Professor Neil Vickers for the first in a series of three lectures on the history of the health/medical humanities www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Thinking with Sunaura Taylor’s disabled ecologies This event brings together academic & practice-based reflections on reproductive, environmental, & disability (in)justice in Colombia 13 February, 5.30 - 7pm, online only Register here ▶️https://shorturl.at/eCaKz