The Architecture of Suffering: Notes from a Johannesburg Trauma Ward
Louis Kennedy reflects on working at a public trauma hospital in Johannesburg, unpicking how it operates as a 'sociostructural space of pain'.
Co-Production and Physical Activity: Reflections from Research, Practice, and Lived Experience
Crystal Voyle, Michelle Pullen, and Kate Marks reflect on the key points raised at the Co-Production and Physical Activity event held at Durham University in March 2026.
Visualising the Human and Historical Lives of Tobacco in India
Upendra Bhojani extends beyond public health and draws the historical, colonial, and social dimensions of tobacco use in India.
Necessary Independence: Ableism in Natural Disaster Discourse
Lydia Chung illuminates the structural ableism in disaster response design.
Reimagining Access: Self-Managed Abortion in India
Garima Shrivastava considers how self-managed abortion (SMA) in India unsettles simple ideas of access, drawing attention to the social, technological, and institutional conditions that shape experiences of abortion.
Metaphor Map for Psychiatric Experiences
Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the 'Metaphor Map'- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.
Bed Theory: The Bed as Site of Conditional Care
Sarah Boira introduces their Bed Theory, noticing the assumptions and borders of the seemingly mundane object of the bed.
‘Mrs Average of the UK’ Makes Something of Her Menopause
Arlene Jackson's reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’.
Glasgoscopy: Creative Writing as Reflective Practice
Vicki Husband uses her poetic perspective to reflect on the practice and pedagogy of occupational therapy in her book Glasgoscopy.