#ReaderBank is brought to you by an interdisciplinary team @durham.ac.uk , including @aldersonday.bsky.social @georgiapunton.bsky.social, Nick Barley, @literarti.bsky.social @maryrobbo.bsky.social and @aryaray.bsky.social. Generously supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.
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What kind of reader are you? On #WorldBookDay, take a deep dive into the mysteries of the reading imagination with @thereaderbank.bsky.social
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This is going to be brilliant. I can't wait to discuss all things measurement with this incredible line up of speakers!!
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! 🤩
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Thanks so much, Eva!
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!
Loved having you there! I've always wanted to be an audiobook xD
For those who can't attend the morning session, there's an even session as well: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thakumar-j...
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!
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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...
Ben Alderson-Day and Mary Robson on stage, with backs of audience members in the foreground.
Arya Ray speaking on stage, pointing at something to his left. Audience members in the foreground. The background says Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Georgia Punton speaking on stage. Audience members in the foreground. The background says Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Six ReaderBank modules: The Imagination Quiz, Repair, In It Together, VoiceMatch, In-Two Minds, Between the Lines (Readerbank × Canongate)
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!
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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
Two people smiling at the camera. They are standing behind a desk with a laptop computer and keyboard on it.
Green and black PowerPoint slide with the words 'Performance Dork'.
Three people sitting in a seminar room on a line of chairs behind a table.
🎬 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.
