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-...

The American Medical Association have stated that they will remove race equations from lung function testing 🫁 Research by disability historian & Measurement Lab co-lead Coreen McGuire has contributed, alongside work from myriad health professionals. Read more: medhumsplatform.org/changes-made...

Our next instalment of the Measurement Heretics reading group is next week on Tuesday 21 April! Join us at 3.30-5pm – all are welcome 📚️ ⚖️ Register here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Join us in celebrating 25 years of Medical Humanities at Durham, in honour of Jane Macnaughton 🎊 Jane established the IMH in 2000 as the Centre for the Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine. 📆 20 April, 5.30–7pm 📍 Durham University Book your free spot: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

📚️ Join us on Mon 11 May 4–5.30pm for the launch of 'Blood, Sweat and Tears: A History of Bodily Fluids'. Author Ruben Verwaal will be joined by historians & scholars of medical humanities to take a deep dive into the story of bodily fluids. Book your free spot! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Join us for an instalment of the Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series, with Dr Martin Savransky. On 11 May 5–6pm, Martin will be giving a talk titled "Losing Ground: Planetary Instability and a Life Tenacious". Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/losing-gro...

If anyone is interested in narrative and physical activity do get in touch. I co-lead the narrative lab practices lab within @durhamimh.bsky.social that is funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social . We want to hear more about great work / people interested in narrative and storytelling for health

Last month, the Moving Bodies Lab co-hosted a workshop focusing on co-production research around movement, physical activity and medical humanities. Kate Marks, IMH Fellow, has written a recap of the event. Read it here 👇️ medhumsplatform.org/co-productio...

Join Katharine Cheston, IMH Honorary Fellow, on Monday 11 May as she discusses the treatment of people with ME and its wider implications in terms of affective injustice in healthcare. 🕰️ 12–1.30pm 🎟️ Free to book! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-aff...

On Thursday 30 April, we'll be discussing the book 'Preserving the Penultimate: Towards a Church-Led Vision for Healthcare' with author Robert M Jaggs-Fowler, Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities. This hybrid event is free to attend! Book your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving...

Keen to move and be moved? Join us for Dancing Across Disciplines, a one-day event exploring dance across forms, spaces, and academic fields, with talks, practice showings, & discussion. No dance experience required! 📅 28 April | Durham 🎟 Free – register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-ac...

Last chance to update our interactive Global Medical Humanities Map! 🌍 To update your organisation's info or to add a new medical or health humanities institute, centre or network, please complete this short survey by tomorrow (31st March). medhumsplatform.org/updating-the...

ICYMI – Recordings from the one-day workshop 'The Senses and Medical Humanities' organised by @claireturner.bsky.social of our Affective Experience Lab are now available to watch online. Thanks to everyone who joined us for this event! ▶️ medhumsplatform.org/the-senses-a...

Interested in a workshop for early-career UK researchers on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities? Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project & NNMHR. 📆 29-30 Oct 2026 | University of Stirling Apply by 15 May @npapadogian.bsky.social nnmh.org.uk/decentring-t...

Our spring newsletter is out! 🌸 This edition features some fascinating publications by our researchers, highlights from @the-polyphony.bsky.social and, as always, lots of upcoming free events. Read it online: mailchi.mp/durham.ac.uk...

How big is a ‘drop’? 💧 @beccajackson.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Measurement Lab and the Affective Experience Lab, recently co-authored a prize-winning paper on the story of the non-standard unit of a 'drop'. Read the paper: medhumsplatform.org/the-drop-and...

Xiao Ge, Bridging Fellow in our Narrative Practices Lab, recently visited China for a research trip, leading workshops on how creative, hands-on practices can reveal new ways to understand and share health and lived experiences. Read her write-up of the visit: medhumsplatform.org/craft-to-care/