These experiences are easy to hide, but difficult to comprehend, explain or get help for. We believe a medical humanities approach can shed new light on these hidden experiences to improve health policy and practice and benefit the lives of communities and individuals. 

Through interdisciplinary investigations spanning all three university faculties and drawing in colleagues from English Studies, Theology, History, Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Sport and Exercise Science and Psychology, among others, we are developing and expanding research projects on topics including trauma, post-natal depression, addiction, deafness, dreams, hallucinations, touch, memory, weather, menopause, and anxiety. 

We are generously supported by Wellcome as a centre for excellence in the study of health through the humanities and social sciences, and we collaborate closely with similar centres in Edinburgh, Exeter and Oxford. 

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