Our People

Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities

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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Directors

	Angela Woods Director Institute for Medical Humanities		Ben Alderson-Day Co-Director Department of Psychology

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Angela Woods

Director
Institute for Medical Humanities

Ben Alderson-Day

Co-Director
Department of Psychology

The Connective Tissue

	Evelyn Tehrani Senior Manager Research and Engagement		Mary Robson Senior Creative Facilitator
	Victoria Patton Senior Digital Development & Communications Manager		Akiko Hart Professor in Practice Institute for Medical Humanities
	Bentley Crudgington Creative Facilitator		Becca Doggwiler Digital and Communications Officer
	Carolyn Blake Operations Manager		David Sanders Finance Officer
	Alona Snisarenko General Administrator		Yundi Guo Administrator
	Arya Ray Events & Fellows Coordinator

Labs

Narrative Practices

	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		Anna Stenning Postdoctoral Research Associate School of Education
	Tony Sumner Curatorial Fellow		Arya Thampuran Assistant Professor, Black Health and the Humanities

Laura Mazzoli Smith
Lab Lead

Associate Professor
School of Education

Veronica Heney
Lab Co-Lead

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology

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Victoria (Pip) Hardy
Bridging Fellow

Anna Stenning
Postdoctoral Research Associate
School of Education

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Tony Sumner
Curatorial Fellow

Arya Thampuran
Assistant Professor, Black Health and the Humanities

Moving Bodies

	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		Emily Tupper Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences

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

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Tessa Pollard
Professor in the Department of Anthropology

Fraser Riddell
Assistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities, Department of English Studies

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Emily Tupper
Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences

Measurement

	Alex Broadbent Lab Co-Lead Professor of Philosophy of Science Department of Philosophy		Coreen McGuire Lab Co-lead 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

Alex Broadbent
Lab Co-Lead

Professor of Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy

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Coreen McGuire
Lab Co-lead

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

Visual and Material

	Fiona Johnstone Lab Lead Assistant Professor in Visual and Material Studies Department of English Studies

Fiona Johnstone
Lab Lead

Assistant Professor in Visual and Material Studies
Department of English Studies

Narrative and Cognition

	Marco Bernini Lab Lead Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies Department of English Studies

Marco Bernini
Lab Lead

Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies

Department of English Studies

Affective Experience

Fraser Riddell
Lab Lead

Assistant Professor in Literary Medical Humanities in the Department of English Studies

Corinne Saunders
Lab Lead

Professor in the Department of English Studies

Sites

The WellSpring - Recovery College Collective (ReCoCo)

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

The DeepEnd - St Anthony's Health Centre

Jesse Proudfoot

Site Lead for The DeepEnd

Jonny Coates

GP and Partner at St Anthony's Health Centre

The Festival - Edinburgh International Book Festival

Ben Alderson-Day

Site Lead for The Festival

Nicholas Barley

Professor in Practice

Georgia Punton

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Networks

	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)

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)