Gender & Genre- Medical Humanities and the Moving Image: Conference Review
Arya Ray reflects on attending the one-day conference Gender & Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image, held at Durham University in September 2024.
Carousel: Reflections from the Medical Humanities Summer School, 2024
Dr. Anastasia Ebele Ugwuanyi reflects on her experience attending the 2024 Medical Humanities International Summer School for PhD researchers in Vadstena, Sweden, coordinated by the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University, in collaboration with the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.
Sexology and its Objects
In the first of a 2-part series, Claudia Sterbini and Ash Jayamohan reevaluate the historical and contemporary landscape of sexology and its objects When we first met, collaboration seemed unlikely. Claudia’s research on nonsexual
Race, Empire, and the Edinburgh Medical School: Conference Review
Simon Buck and Ian Stewart reflect on co-organising the two-day conference Race, Empire, and the Edinburgh Medical School held at the University of Edinburgh in April 2024.
Exploring and Enhancing Wellbeing through Therapeutic Photography
Neil Gibson reflects on therapeutic photography and self-esteem as part of a workshop delivered at the June 2023 Scottish Medical Humanities Conference
Hematopolitics: Blood, Space and Time
Thomas Wadsworth reports on the Hematopolitics Symposium held at the University of Leeds in May 2022
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
Introduction to the Waiting Times Project: Key Findings
In the first of our Waiting Times takeover, Lisa Baraitser and Laura Salisbury introduce us to the project: its context, questions, ambitions, and findings. We started working on the Waiting Times project in 2015,
The Polyphony Meets NNMHR
The Polyphony team is excited to attend the 2023 NNMHR Congress, hosted online by Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research. Our editors will interact with panels