We are very excited to announce the Narrative Practices Lab, which will be launched in September 2023 as part of Durham's Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

Professor Andrew Russell (Anthropology) and Mary Robson (IMH) were invited to India to take part in a workshop aimed at breaking down barriers for those participating in evaluation. Mary and Andrew wrote a short article reflecting on their trip for the Durham University staff blog.

Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities are looking for a group of young people (18–25) with personal experience of hearing voices to test out a pilot version of a mental health app called LIVV.

The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) is pleased to announce that the 2023 round of the New Networks in Critical Medical Humanities Funding Scheme is now open and invites applications for grants of up to £2500 to support networking activities.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr James Rákóczi as an Honorary Fellow with IMH.

Announcing the launch of the NNMHR-funded network "Neurodivergent Humanities" at the upcoming NNMHR Congress.

Three members of IMH have received grants from the Global Engagement Grants, a Durham University scheme which supports global engagement and partnership development.

December saw the release of the newest IMH newsletter, filled with updates about recent activities and information about upcoming events.

We are delighted to welcome Cat Chong as a visiting PhD student from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. Based at IMH until the end of 2023, Cat is a poet, publisher, essayist, and medical humanities PhD student. Their work considers the intersections between genderqueerness, disability, and chronic illness within lyric hybrid-genre memoirs.

Earlier this month the Institute for Medical Humanities hosted a book launch celebrating the publication of Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives edited by Angela Woods, Ben Alderson-Day and Charles Fernyhough.

We’ve published a new brochure presenting a selection of research and engagement findings from over a decade’s worth of work from Hearing the Voice.

On 16 November, IMH held its first in-person research cabaret evening at the Old Cinema Launderette in Durham.