Researchers in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities come from a wide range of disciplines, including Literary Studies, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Sport and Exercise Sciences, Education and Sociology. Our team also includes people with lived experience, clinicians, creative and voluntary sector professionals.
Angela Woods – Director, Institute for Medical Humanities and Department of English Studies
Ben Alderson-Day – Co-Director, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Evelyn Tehrani – Senior Manager – Research and Engagement
Victoria Patton – Senior Digital Development and Communications Manager
Mary Robson – Senior Creative Facilitator
Bentley Crudgington – Creative Facilitator
Akiko Hart – Professor in Practice, Institute for Medical Humanities
Carolyn Blake – Operations Manager
Jesse Proudfoot – Site Lead, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Jonny Coates – GP and Partner, St Anthony's Health Centre
Evelyn Tehrani – Site Lead
Angela Glascott – Co-Director and Co-Founder of ReCoCo
Alisdair Cameron – Co-Director of ReCoco
Georgia Corbett – WellSpring Coordinator, ReCoCo
Ben Alderson-Day – Site Lead, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Nick Barley – Professor in Practice, Institute for Medical Humanities & Department of English Studies
Laura Mazzoli Smith – Lab Lead, Associate Professor, School of Education
Veronica Heney – Lab Co-Lead, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Victoria (Pip) Hardy – Bridging Fellow
Tony Sumner – Curatorial Fellow
Anna Stenning – Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Education
Arya Thampuran – Assistant Professor, Black Health and the Humanities
Cassandra Phoenix – Lab Lead, Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Sarah Atkinson – Professor in the Department of Geography
Megan Girdwood – Assistant Professor in Modern Literature, Department of English Studies
Tessa Pollard – Professor in the Department of Anthropology
Fraser Riddell – Assistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities, Department of English Studies
Alex Broadbent – Lab Co-Lead, Professor of Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy
Coreen McGuire – Assistant Professor (Twentieth Century British History), Department of History
Robert Chapman – Assistant Professor in Critical Neurodiversity Studies, Department of Philosophy
Louise Creechan – Lecturer in Literary Medical Humanities, Department of English Studies
Fiona Johnstone – Lab Lead, Assistant Professor in Visual and Material Studies, Department of English Studies
Marco Bernini – Lab Lead, Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies, Department of English Studies
Fraser Riddell – Lab Lead, Assistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities, Department of English Studies
Corinne Saunders – Lab Lead, Professor in the Department of English Studies
Arya Thampuran – Black Health and the Humanities Network (PI)
Fiona Johnstone – Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (Lead)
Adam Powell – Religion, Health and Humanities Researchers (Lead)
Ben Alderson-Day – Early Career Hallucinations Research Network (Lead)
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