How can we use people’s lived experience of health and illness to improve clinical practice? This has been the focus for Professor Jane Macnaughton as the founder of our Institute for Medical Humanities. For the last 25 years, Jane has been at the forefront of this area of research, striving to humanise medical education.

People in police custody with health issues are regularly put at risk because medication is delayed or unavailable.

The Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference has ended. Registration is now closed.

The Institute for Medical Humanities and Blue Cabin are working together to launch a free, nine-month training programme for care-experienced young adults aged 18 to 25.

News and insights from the Institute for Medical Humanities.

The Polyphony is delighted to announce the publication of a new brochure — MedHums 101: What is Medical Humanities?

We are delighted to announce that the recording of our event ‘Global Medical Humanities: What next for the humanities in health research?’ is now available.

Fellows of the Institute for Medical Humanities invited to pitch ideas to develop and lead two new Research Themes.

Could one of our new research roles be for you?

A warm welcome to Katharine Cheston, who joins the Discovery Research Platform as a Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Medical Humanities.

Researchers from our Institute for Medical Humanities have taken our innovative ReaderBank project to the Jaipur Literature Festival in Rajasthan, India.

A warm welcome to Ifejuola Atunwa, who joins the Platform as our Partnerships and Engagement Intern.