Of or About: Classifying Memoirs Concerning Schizophrenia
Arunima A. Vasudevan examines the need for an academic distinction between ‘memoirs of’ and ‘memoirs about’ schizophrenia to better account for complexity of expression within the experience.
Queer methods of presence, proximity, and pressure
Susie Russell examines her experience of embodiment, relationality, and interdependence at the 2025 PhD School: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities.
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.
‘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.
Feeling Detached After a Traumatic Experience
Inspired by both personal history and intellectual curiosity, researcher Molly Scott examines the impact of bodily disconnect on responses to touch in those who have experienced trauma.
When A Name Replaces The Story
Monica Ross uses her personal and clinical experience to explore how diagnostic language can clarify, constrain, and quietly shape the meaning of a life.
Endometriosis in Words: Stories, Emotional Dictionaries, and Endostand
Loïc Bourdeau discusses the #ENDOs project and the deployment of narrative tools to challenge the normalisation of endometriosis pain, empower those living with the disease, and educate health practitioners.
Multilingual Medical Testimony: Bearing Witness to Conflict and Catastrophe
Nicolas Barnett, Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams consider how issues of language and translation intersect with questions of power and identity in witness reports by healthcare professionals.
You and me, I and I: the queerness of intergenerational storytelling
Becky Higgins reflects on her position as an autoethnographic researcher working collaboratively on the topics of memory and illness, exploring the queerness of storytelling as method.