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.
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Angela Woods
DirectorInstitute for Medical Humanities
Ben Alderson-Day
Co-DirectorDepartment of Psychology
Evelyn TehraniSenior Manager
Research and Engagement
Mary RobsonSenior Creative Facilitator
Laura Mazzoli SmithLab Lead
Associate ProfessorSchool of Education
Veronica HeneyLab Co-Lead
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Sociology
Victoria (Pip) HardyBridging Fellow
Anna StenningPostdoctoral Research AssociateSchool of Education
Tony SumnerCuratorial Fellow
Arya ThampuranAssistant Professor, Black Health and the Humanities
Cassandra PhoenixLab Lead
Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Sarah AtkinsonProfessor in the Department of Geography
Megan GirdwoodAssistant Professor in Modern Literature, Department of English Studies
Tessa PollardProfessor in the Department of Anthropology
Fraser RiddellAssistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities, Department of English Studies
Emily TupperAssistant Professor in Medical Humanities, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Alex BroadbentLab Co-Lead
Professor of Philosophy of ScienceDepartment of Philosophy
Coreen McGuireLab Co-lead
Assistant Professor (Twentieth Century British History)Department of History
Robert ChapmanAssistant Professor in Critical Neurodiversity Studies
Department of Philosophy
Louise Creechan
Lecturer in Literary Medical Humanities
Department of English Studies
Fiona JohnstoneLab Lead
Assistant Professor in Visual and Material StudiesDepartment of English Studies
Marco BerniniLab Lead
Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies
Fraser RiddellLab Lead
Assistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities in the Department of English Studies
Corinne SaundersLab Lead
Professor in the Department of English Studies
Evelyn Tehrani
Senior Manager: Impact and Engagement
Georgia Corbett
WellSpring Coordinator, ReCoCo
Angela Glascott
Co-Director and Co-Founder of ReCoCo
Alisdair Cameron
Co-Director of ReCoco
Veenu Gupta
Assistant Professor in Lived Experience
Jesse Proudfoot
Site Lead for The DeepEnd
Jonny Coates
GP and Partner at St Anthony's Health Centre
Site Lead for The Festival
Nicholas Barley
Professor in Practice
Georgia Punton
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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)
Early Career Hallucinations Research Network (Lead)
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