A clean setup with the #RatsOfConfluence, complete with sticky wall, singing bowl and multicoloured card. Brilliantly timed ahead of Thursday’s Creative Facilitation event www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

🎉 Congratulations to @aryaray.bsky.social who has who has progressed to a new role within our Discovery Research Platform at the Institute for Medical Humanities – Assistant Manager (Events and Fellowship). We wish him all the best in his new role! 🤩 medhumsplatform.org/new-assistan...

We've tried to do something different with this piece, and we'd love it if you tell us what you think. It's also my final piece as Guest Editor, and I think it's a great not to leave on. I'm incredibly grateful for this experience. Can't wait to see what the project does next!

It's been over five years since Suniti started teaching me and I still carry the principles of care and criticality that she embodies as an academic. One of my final editorial pieces for The Polyphony, and one of my favourites. Do read, and circulate widely!

In about an hour today, I'll be talking about Bengali ghosts as part of Romancing the Gothic's talk series. When my grandfather told me these bedtime stories, I doubt he thought I'd make it the centre of my research but here we are. Come along if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thakumar-j...

We are pleased to welcome a new member of the team: Xiao Ge has joined as Guest Editor for the Polyphony Meets China (PMC) project! Welcome Xiao! thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...

We're hiring 3 new editors! 2 general and 1 for reviews! thepolyphony.org/2025/10/27/w...

Wondering what a Research Cabaret is? 🤔 Organiser and researcher @louisecreechan.bsky.social explains what you might expect at our @beinghumanfest.bsky.social event next month 🎭 Tickets: tinyurl.com/research-cab...

Saurabh Chowdhury writes from an anthropological perspective to discuss the entanglements between evolutionary biological variations and modern sociocultural prejudices. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/13/w...

I'm really happy to see graphic medicine becoming an incisive and critical field in India, so much great work happening in the area!

📮Our September newsletter was a ReaderBank special! 📚 We reflected on our time at @edbookfest.bsky.social where we launched a range of new @thereaderbank.bsky.social activities to help you learn more about the reading mind. 👀View the newsletter here: mailchi.mp/ee3bf2b5f065...

Shruti Ghosh explores zine making as a method for “queering” knowledge production in health research. thepolyphony.org/2025/08/28/t...

And scene! Our time at the @edbookfest.bsky.social was exciting and rewarding! It’s not over yet – our website is still buzzing with activity, and the modules are still live online. Explore how we imagine, how we feel, how we read, and what that means for our mental health! readerbank.org

Erika Pathó analyses the challenges related to the adoption of a Western-designed dietary measure to manage IBS symptoms in India, focusing on patients’ accounts of their experiences of dietary change. thepolyphony.org/2025/08/14/m...

🚀 At our public workshop @edbookfest.bsky.social today, we launched our new project ‘Between the Lines’ in collaboration with @canongate.co.uk.

🔥Hot off the press! New pre-print with the v. first findings from our study of reading, the imagination and mental health in collab with @edbookfest.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Don't know much about relief but I do bring comedy.

Got some exciting stuff coming up this year, watch this space 👀

if these rodents get phd funding before i do (looks like it) i will lose my mind

Surjavo Sen Gupta discusses the use of medical and artistic tools as agents of colonial subjugation by considering the phrenological enquiry of the Toda people of South India. thepolyphony.org/2025/07/16/e...

Very proud of this one. The project is about a neighbourhood very close to my heart - where I grew up and am lucky to call home. These stories are the closest attempt at capturing the sense of (un)belonging that most residents, including me, have felt all our lives.

Surjavo Sen Gupta discusses the cultural depiction of Lajjā Gaurī as a cultural antecedent to the role of male-female compatibility in Fertility Studies. thepolyphony.org/2025/07/07/t...

Artist Priyanka Paul unsettles care work as they illustratively and poetically reckon with the reality of children caretaking for their chronically ill parents. thepolyphony.org?p=26475

🎬 And it's a wrap! Day 3 of our Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference ends with Daniel Oliver's keynote 'Performance Dork' and closing remarks from our Fellows. Huge thanks to everyone, especially our fab events co-ordinators @aryaray.bsky.social & Haf Serajee.

Day 2 of our Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference! @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @ainokash.bsky.social, the round-table on intersectional privilege, self-(a)criticality & micro-politics in critical neurodiversity studies, and a neuroscribbling in clay workshop were just some of the highlights ...

Welcome to the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference's takeover of the Polyphony site, from today until Tuesday next week. Here co-organiser @louisecreechan.bsky.social kicks us off by asking: 'What is critical neurodiversity studies'? thepolyphony.org/2025/06/23/c...

fun fact: I wrote the short story that 'Again' is adapted from 😌

Excited because my first commissioned article for The Polyphony Meets India went live less than an hour ago - do give it a read! 💜

an old poem; a reminder that war and the loss of innocent lives on either side of the border is not something to be rejoiced.

Coming soon to theatres near you ✌️

It was great to run with @sagebrice.bsky.social a workshop on Graphic Research Methods and Queer Medical Humanities! I have learnt so much from the discussion! Many thanks to @durhamimh.bsky.social for making this event a safe space to address sensitive issues.

[email protected] Ariel Swyer is visiting @durhamimh.bsky.social, where she will be giving a talk on Monday, March 31st on the history of definitions and measurement of hallucination, and their impacts on scientific and clinical understandings. The talk will be online:

Arya Ray reflects on attending the one-day conference Gender & Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image, held at Durham University in September 2024. thepolyphony.org/2025/01/31/g...

It was a 4am start at Newcastle Airport for our #ReaderBank team this morning, as they head to the Jaipur Literature Festival in Rajasthan, India (29 Jan–3 Feb 2025). ReaderBank is the world's most ambitious study of imagination, reading and well-being. Find out more: readerbank.org