December saw the release of the newest IMH newsletter, filled with updates about recent activities and information about upcoming events.

We are delighted to welcome Cat Chong as a visiting PhD student from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. Based at IMH until the end of 2023, Cat is a poet, publisher, essayist, and medical humanities PhD student. Their work considers the intersections between genderqueerness, disability, and chronic illness within lyric hybrid-genre memoirs.

Earlier this month the Institute for Medical Humanities hosted a book launch celebrating the publication of Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives edited by Angela Woods, Ben Alderson-Day and Charles Fernyhough.

We’ve published a new brochure presenting a selection of research and engagement findings from over a decade’s worth of work from Hearing the Voice.

On 16 November, IMH held its first in-person research cabaret evening at the Old Cinema Launderette in Durham.

The Black Health and the Humanities Network is now hosted by the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.