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2026 Polyphony User Survey: Feedback for our future

Have you ever read or published on The Polyphony? Tell us what you think!
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Welcome to Palak Daga

A warm welcome to Palak Daga, who joins the Institute for Medical Humanities as a Communications Intern.
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Dr Daniel P. Jones to imagine new futures for Tourette Syndrome

Dr Daniel P. Jones from our Institute for Medical Humanities and Department of Sociology has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Early-Career Award to transform understandings of Tourette Syndrome.
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New Funding Opportunity for IMH PGRs and ECRs

Applications to the PGR/ECR Pathways Fund for IMH PGR and ECR Fellows seeking to advance Medical Humanities research by developing collaborative opportunities are now open.
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ReaderBank at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Discovery Zone

Members of IMH's ReaderBank research team recently spent two days in the Discovery Zone at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, exploring the reading imagination with young readers and school children.
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Watch 25 Years of Medical Humanities at Durham

The recording of our event celebrating Jane Macnaughton’s contribution to the medical humanities is now available to watch.
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Ambient scribes as narrative technologies

A new Lancet viewpoint by IMH Director Angela Woods, with Kirsten Ostther from Rice University and Eivind Engebretsen from the University of Oslo, calls for caution on the rapid adoption of ‘ambient scribes’ in healthcare.
The image shows a superimposition of colourful illustrations representing different objects in a secretariat: in the background, printed minutes. Above, the hands of a medical secretary typing on her keyboard, the hands of another stamping envelopes. The headset and foot pedal in the foreground are essential tools for typing. In the foreground, the red zig-zags typical of ambient scribe errors str

Intersectional Conversation Analysis, Physical Activity and the Medical Humanities

Reflections on an IMH supported interdisciplinary workshop on Intersectional Conversation Analysis.
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July IMH newsletter published

The summer edition of our newsletter has been sent to subscribers and is available to read online.
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Inquiry into interdisciplinary mental health research

A rapid review of interdisciplinary research practices in mental health, both in the UK and further afield, has been commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
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IMH Postgraduate Researcher Showcase

Last month the IMH held a PhD Showcase afternoon celebrating the diversity and creativity of research in the medical humanities.
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June IMH newsletter published

The June edition of our newsletter has been sent to subscribers and is available to read online.
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