🎬 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:
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✂️ 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:
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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:
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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!
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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:
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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!
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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:
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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:
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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/
Our third Lab Coat Lunches event will be on Wed 9 April 🥼 Artist Steve Geliot will explore the differences between working as an artist in acute hospital settings and working creatively in ‘end of life’ care.
Book your free ticket for this online talk 👇️
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📣 New publication! @calvirgi.bsky.social and @brettsmithprof.bsky.social set out a new agenda for the use of Conversational Analysis in research in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. #openaccess
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On Friday 27 March we're hosting an interdisciplinary conference discussing the intersections between epigenetics, trauma & multilingual narratives, exploring the contribution storytelling makes to the understanding of female-focalised trauma.
Free to sign up:
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🎉 Join us on 20 April to celebrate 25 years of Medical Humanities at Durham and honour Professor Jane Macnaughton, whose work has helped shape the field and establish Durham as a global hub for medical humanities research.
Learn more and register 👇️
medhumsplatform.org/event/25-yea...
The Measurement Lab's monthly online reading group returns on Tue 21 April! 📚️
This group is open to everyone, and looks at work that engages with scientific, medical, and social measuring practices of the past and present.
Register for the mailing list here:
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Researchers in Museums: Collections and Archives Workshop Series. Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds. 13 May; 18 June; 9 July; 1-4pm. I am delighted to be working with Thackray Museum of Medicine to host three workshops for ‘Researchers in Museums’. These interactive workshops offer early career researchers an opportunity to learn about the potential of museum collections to enrich their research. Each workshop will include: ‘Cancer in the Collections’: a unique insight into how one researcher, Dr Claire Turner (Durham University) uses Thackray’s extensive collections and archives to support her own research. Stores Tour: an exclusive guided tour of Thackray’s stores by its Collections Team, with the opportunity to learn more about the history of the museum and the objects, books, and archival materials it holds. Research Room Time: a chance to look in greater depth at books, objects and archival materials drawn from the museum’s collections. Personal Research: option to request and view an object related to your own research. Each session can accommodate up to 8 attendees, each of whom will receive a £20 bursary towards travel to the workshop. To be eligible to attend, you must be: An early career researcher (MA, PhD, or within two years of finishing the PhD) Working broadly within the field of medical humanities Expressions of interest should include a short summary of your research, how you meet the workshop criteria, and your preferred workshop date (max 250 words). All EOIs should be submitted to claire.o.turner@durham.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 17 April.
I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!
Through case studies from around the world, the book examines lockdowns, masks, vaccines, modelling, dissent, and the politics of ‘following the science’.
This book is co-authored with Pieter Streicher from the University of Johannesburg, and published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social.
📘 A major open-access book on the role of science during the Covid-19 pandemic has been published, co-authored by Prof Alex Broadbent from @durham.ac.uk Department of Philosophy & IMH.
Find out more & read it online:
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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