Our IMH Senior Fellow, Jane Macnaughton has led a team of Durham staff to success in attaining a £1 million grant from Wellcome to develop research culture at Durham.

Exciting opportunities for Durham University researchers from across disciplines to come together and help us think about how we can best support and foster work in the areas of narrative research and storytelling.

As part of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, our researchers are partnering with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to develop ReaderBank: the world’s most ambitious study of reading, imagination and well-being.

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We are happy to announce that Dr Marta Cenedese has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, and will be joining IMH from April 2024-26.

Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities and Hearing the Voice are delighted to announce the release of our new Royal College of Psychiatrists CPD e-Learning module on ‘Recovery Narrative in Clinical Practice’ by Åsa Jansson, Angela Woods, Akiko Hart and Chris Cook.

IMH members Veronica Heney and Arya Thampuran, together with their colleague Kelechi Anucha, are delighted to report the success of the Cultures of Madness seminar series, which ran bi-monthly over the last academic year.

Congratulations to Liyuan Jiao (焦丽媛), who has been awarded the Durham-CSC joint PhD scholarship.

As a university rooted in North East England, we’re always looking for ways to work with local partners to help our region thrive.

Dr Yamikani Ndasauka will be spending a year with us as a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health (CPEMPH, recently established within the IMH) and as a member of the DRP Measurement Lab.

Research funding received to understand older prisoners' experiences of movement.

New grant awarded to Professor Tessa Pollard and Professor Cassie Phoenix to evaluate active and sustainable travel practices in structurally disempowered rural communities