Join us for 'Gender, Autism, and Affective and Epistemic Injustice', an engaging workshop exploring the intersections of autism, gender, emotion, knowledge, and social justice. 📅 Tue 7 July 10am–3.30pm 📍 Hybrid / Durham University More info & book (free!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-g...

On 19 June, we invite Durham University staff and students to celebrate our current In Practice Research Fellows who will share the research projects they have developed, their experience of the scheme and their ongoing plans. We'd love to see you there! Register: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

💃 Don't miss this! Our v. own Emily Davis has co-choreographed a performance piece with dancers with MS to be premiered as part of Healing Arts Scotland next week. 📆 19 July, All day 📍City Halls, Glasgow Find out more & book tickets: medhumsplatform.org/see-lived-ex...

📖 The next AI & Medical Humanities Reading Group will take place on Wed 17 June, 2-3:30pm. This group is open to all @durham.ac.uk staff and students. This session's theme is 'From Chatbots to Crisis - AI in Mental Health Practice'. Register here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

What can the medical humanities bring to sport and exercise research? Emily Davis & Kate Marks from our Moving Bodies Lab shared their work at the International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise @qrsesociety.bsky.social. Read the writeup: medhumsplatform.org/moving-bodie...

In April we held 'Dancing Across Disciplines' - a sector-wide event exploring the role of dance across research and practice. Event leads @danielpjones.bsky.social, @marieminden.bsky.social and Emily Davis recap the day in this news piece.

How is AI reshaping the way we think, create and understand ourselves? Join us for a discussion with experts from philosophy, machine learning, digital humanities and the arts to explore AI & human meaning. 📅 12 June, 2-5.30pm 📍 Durham (Hybrid) 🎟️ Free Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisci...

In our final Lab Coat Lunch we'll be joined by the co-creator of @soulpaint.bsky.social, Sarah Ticho. SOUL PAINT is a VR experience combining 3D drawing, playful embodied interaction and personal introspection. 📆 Wed 8 July, 1-2pm (online, free) Book:

What happens when a health initiative becomes a community movement? A new publication by Moving Bodies Lab researcher Emily Davis exploring a Dance for MS programme in Scotland’s Orkney Islands shows that the impact of dance extends far beyond physical activity. medhumsplatform.org/new-study-ex...

On Friday our May newsletter hit inboxes 📥 This edition showcases latest news from the IMH and Discovery Research Platform, welcomes new staff and Fellows and highlights some upcoming events. Read it here: mailchi.mp/durham.ac.uk...

📚 What does reading do to our minds? Earlier this week, our Discovery Research Platform Co-Director @aldersonday.bsky.social joined BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind to discuss the science of reading and its impact on our lives and wellbeing 🌟 Listen to the full episode here

Last webinar in our series before we break for summer! please register online and join us: free and all welcome!

We warmly invite you to a PhD Showcase afternoon celebrating the diversity and creativity of research in the medical humanities. We’d love to see you there! (Please note this event is for @durham.ac.uk staff and students only) Register: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

We're very pleased to announce our confirmed Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellows who will be starting in June! 💫 Read our news post to find out more about them and their research👇 medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-o...

📺️ Catch up on this heatwave-appropriate event: "Summer running in London" ☀️ 🏃 In this talk Antonia Hodgson discussed negotiating the weather in recreational running at the Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement and Wellbeing roundtable. ▶️

What makes the “heroic doctor” story so powerful? Join us for a talk by Danielle Spencer exploring narrative medicine, physician memoirs, and how shows like The Pitt shape ideas about healthcare and clinicians. 📅 Thur 25 June 📍 Durham / Online 🎟️ Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heroic-doc...

On Monday 1 June, Join anthropologist @tscriado.bsky.social & @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social for an online talk exploring urban habitability, collective experimentation, and the politics of shade in a warming world. 🕒️ 3-4pm BST Book for free here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/probing-in...

🥼 Catch up on our Lab Coat Lunch series! The second talk featured speaker Paulina Yurman talking about her design research approaches, adopting speculative design, drawing, making and participatory workshops to explore understandings of health and care. Watch it here: 📺️

🥼 Have you been enjoying our online Lab Coat Lunch talk series? All these events have been recorded so if you missed any, you can catch up! 🌟 Watch the first event with speaker Matt Durran here: 📺️

📺️ Catch up on our events! In March we held a 3-day interdisciplinary Measurement Heretics workshop. If you missed it, you can catch up on the keynote talk 'A fluid history of measurement' here: ▶️

Next week join us for the launch of two books: 'Modern Soul Experience in Psychology and Philosophy' and 'Dancing Freedom: Modern Dance in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union.' 📆 Thurs 28 May, 6–7.30pm BST 📍 Durham University Free to attend! Info 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

📺️ Catch up on our events! Last week we welcomed author Ruben Verwaal and other historians and scholars of medical humanities to launch Ruben's book 'Blood, Sweat and Tears'. ▶️ Watch the event recording here: vimeo.com/1192216992?f...

We're very excited to share the programme for next week's event Spirituality in Health: Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Practice 🤩 You can download the full programme here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... There are still some (free!) tickets available - please visit the link to book.

📺️ Catch up on our events! In March we welcomed Professor Nicolas Pierre Boileau for an Affective Experience Lab seminar, offering insights into Rachel Cusk’s 'Second Place' (2021). ▶️ You can watch the talk here: vimeo.com/1175470691?f...

Postdoctoral Research Associate Sofie Layton recently presented a project investigating the lived experience of heart disease at an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health roundtable focused on Digital Health and CreaTech @ncch.bsky.social. Read more here: medhumsplatform.org/layton-appg/

Our next session of the Measurement Heretics reading group is next week on Tuesday 19 May! Join us at 3.30-5pm BST – all are welcome 📚️ ⚖️ Register here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Join us on 21-22 May for 'Spirituality in Health'. This symposium aims to foster a shared, critically informed understanding of spirituality in health contexts that is meaningful across disciplines and religious traditions. More info & free tickets 👇

📚 Join us for this book launch featuring Roger Smith and Irina Sirotkina discussing their new publications, with Anna Furse as discussant. This interdisciplinary event explores psychology, philosophy, and the history of modern dance. 📆 Thursday 28 May, 6pm-7.30pm Find out more👇

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims – but for some it seemed an opportunity. Read this article co-authored by @coreenanne.bsky.social, assistant professor in the Dept of History @durham.ac.uk & published in @aeon.co. medhumsplatform.org/the-sterilis...

📖 The next AI & Medical Humanities Reading Group will take place on Wed 13 May, 2-3:30pm. This group is open to all @durham.ac.uk staff and students. This session will focus on 'State-of-the-Art: New healthcare products from AI research labs'. Register here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

A warm welcome to Ruben Verwaal, who is visiting the IMH until 29 May. Ruben is an Honorary Fellow of the IMH, and his work focuses on how experiences of health, disease, and disability are shaped by medicine, culture, and society. Welcome, Ruben! medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-v...

Please join us this coming Monday (12-1.30pm) for a free seminar on ‘Gender, Affective Injustice and “the Greatest Medical Scandal of the 21st Century”’. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... I’ll showcase some initial analysis of the 2025 Big Survey @actionforme.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social

Delighted to share that Johanna Thren joins our Discovery Research Platform and Institute for Medical Humanities as a Creative Facilitation Specialist in our Creative Facilitation Unit. We look forward to working with you, Johanna! Find out more 👉 medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-jo...

🚨 Last few tickets! Join @ndhumanities.bsky.social for a 90-minute online workshop using zine-making to create space for neurodivergent people to be co-creators in envisioning alternative academic futures. 📆 Wed 13 May 12:30-2pm BST Book your free spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

🌍 How can we rethink urban life in an age of extreme heat? Join us for this online talk with anthropologist Tomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social, joined by Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social, exploring new ways of imagining future cities. 📆 Monday 1 June, 3pm-4pm (BST) Book here👇

🧪🎨 3D bioengineering & arts practice in healthcare? Join us for our fourth Lab Coat Lunch with Giovanni Biglino, exploring how 3D technologies such as virtual reality can support patient engagement and bring lived experience into healthcare. 📆 Wednesday 13 May, 1-2pm (BST) 📍 Online Book for free👇

💧 Join us for the book launch of Blood, Sweat and Tears with Ruben Verwaal. With Amanda Herbert, @claireturner.bsky.social & @harrietbarratt.bsky.social, this discussion explores bodily fluids across society, culture, and medicine. 📆 Monday 11 May, 4-5.30pm (BST) Book here:

🌍 Join us for “Losing Ground: Planetary Instability and a Life Tenacious,” an online talk by Dr Martin Savransky exploring what it means to live tenaciously amid planetary instability. 📆 Monday 11 May, 5-6pm (BST) Book for free👇

In March we hosted ‘Measurement Heretics: Being, Meaning and Measuring Well’. Organiser @beccajackson.bsky.social reviews of this international workshop which brought together researchers to rewrite the story of what it means to measure 📏 ⚖️ Read the recap 👇

Two of our researchers @georgiapunton.bsky.social & @aldersonday.bsky.social explore the concept of imagination in articles published April's edition of @psychmag.bsky.social, part of a six-part series on the imagination 💭 Read the articles 👇

📝 Join us for this online discussion of Jonathan Fuller’s new book on contemporary scientific medicine and its distinctive philosophical problems. 📆 Thursday 14 May, 3pm-4.30pm (BST) Register here👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social recently gave a public lecture for the European Society for the Study of Tics & Tourette Syndrome. ▶️ Find out more and watch the lecture here: medhumsplatform.org/new-public-l...

Our latest newsletter is out! 👀 Catch up on news, upcoming events and some fascinating publications 📖 Read the April e-newsletter here 👇 mailchi.mp/durham.ac.uk...

Last week we celebrated 25 years of medical humanities at Durham University in honour of the inspirational Jane Macnaughton. Thank you to everyone who joined us to pay tribute to Jane! Read the news story here: 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

🚨 Call for Abstracts: The New Measurement Heretics We welcome proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology, and anthropology of measurement who would like to address themes around formal & informal measurement concepts ⚖️ Find out more 👇 medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

🎬 How can arts and film reshape experiences of care at the end of life? Join us for this online talk with artist Steve Geliot, who will explore the powerful role of creative practice in hospice settings. 🗓 29 April 2026, 1–2pm (BST) Book for free 👇

Next week, join us for a dynamic day exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces, and communities 🩰 📆 Tuesday 28 April, 10am-4pm 📍 Durham Book your free spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac...

✂️ What if academia was designed differently - more inclusive, more creative, and shaped by diverse ways of thinking? Join @ndhumanities.bsky.social for an online zine-making workshop to explore these ideas. No experience needed! 🗓 13 May 12.30–2pm Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

Join us on 8 May for “The Relationship is the Therapy: A Symposium on Therapy, Research & Practice”: a thought-provoking event bringing together practitioners, researchers & anyone curious about human connection at the heart of therapeutic work. Book for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-relati...

Next month we're excited to host the fourth Lab Coat Lunch event! 🥼 Giovanni Biglino, a bioengineer trained in the humanities and the arts, will discuss how 3D technologies are revolutionising the medical landscape. 📆 13 May 1-2pm Book your free spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/combining-...