Psychonauts 2 and Inner-Space Gaming: A Review
Rob Mayo reviews Psychonauts 2, a third-person platformer game on PlayStation 4 (Double Fine Productions, 2021).
Why Practice Research? Creative Writing and Recurrent Miscarriage
Sabina Dosani explains the process that led her to creative writing research methods in exploring recurrent miscarriage.
The Premise: How Genetics and Bioethics Shape Our Future
Emma Nance probes the entanglement of genetics, biology and bioethics using an accumulative genetico-literary methodology The Puzzle There’s a lot that I have discovered about my family’s genetic code over the past 25 years.
God Help Us? Religion in Nineteenth-Century British Asylums
Historian Ute Oswald explores the role of religion in nineteenth-century asylums and questions the therapeutic benefits of engaging in similar practices today. Can religion make us feel better? Are religious people less likely to
Archives, Objects, Methods 2023: A Conference Review
Celebrating creative research and the unexpected links that exist between interdisciplinary projects, Hannah Palmer reflects upon the recent ‘Archives, Objects, Methods’ conference. In April 2023, Loughborough University’s Health Humanities research group organised the ‘Health
The Time of Care: Conference Review
In the final post of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha and Stephanie Davies reflect on discussions emerging from the Time of Care conference. Towards the end of March 2023, around seventy people gathered
At the Horse Hospital: Coughing at Holborn’s Colonnade
The seventh of our Waiting Times takeover series is a collaborative review of Martin O’Brien’s performance and lecture at the Horse Hospital in London. Ed Garland focusses on sonic experience while Amy Grandvoinet takes
What Are You Waiting For? Our living archive of waiting
In the sixth post of the Waiting Times takeover, Michael Flexer reflects on the process of enacting publicly engaged research and how a ‘living archive’ came into being. “The time on dialysis is dead
Gender Care and Untimeliness: Reflections on the Gender Identity Development Service
In the fifth post of the Waiting Times takeover, Jordan Osserman draws our attention to the ‘untimely’ nature of youth gender care. Many people have heard many things about this place. Few ever name