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Medical Humanities International Summer School 2024

We warmly invite applications to our Medical Humanities International Summer School (9-11 September 2024, Vadstena, Sweden) coordinated by the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University in collaboration with Durham's Institute for Medical Humanities.
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Akiko Hart appointed permanent Director of Liberty

Akiko Hart, IMH Professor in Practice and Co-Applicant on our Discovery Research Platform, is now in a permanent position as the Director of Liberty.
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Free Thinking: What is normal?

IMH researchers Louise Creechan and Robert Chapman discuss neurodiversity, disability and madness in an episode of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking.
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WoMaHN Inaugural Symposium and Key Members Meeting

This week IMH's Professor Cassandra Phoenix will join a group of international scholars at the University of Tilberg for the inaugural symposium and Key Member meeting of the Women’s Marginalised Health Network (WoMaHN), where she will present work from the programme of research she is leading within the IMH and the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences on movement through menopause.
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Narrative & Cognition Lab Events Programme, Jan–June 2024

Announcing the events line-up for the Narrative and Cognition Lab.
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Welcome to David L. Martin

We are delighted to welcome David L. Martin to our Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
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Narrative Practices Across Durham

Reflections on a Durham-wide workshop for narrative in health.
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Would you like to become a Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities?

We warmly invite expressions of interest from Durham University researchers who would like to become a Fellow of the IMH.
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Discovery Research Platform Job Opportunities!

We are delighted to announce the following vacancies within the Discovery Research Platform and Institute for Medical Humanities Operations Team.
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Welcome to Emily Tupper

A warm welcome to Emily Tupper, who joins the Moving Bodies Lab on the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
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Medical Humanities and Sport and Exercise Sciences: An Invitation to Dialogue

Reflections on the first event in the Moving Bodies Lab led by Cassie Phoenix.
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IMH announces three new Honorary Fellows

A warm welcome to David Woodhead, Kelechi Anucha and William Viney.
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