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

Colleagues and partners from the voluntary and health sectors and researchers from our own academic community joined us to celebrate the achievements fo our 2025-26 Medical Humanities in Practice cohort.

Preliminary findings from Action for ME’s 2025 Big Survey, which was produced in collaboration with our Institute for Medical Humanities, were shared last week in the House of Lords.

In this article, Dr Halima Akhter, researcher in our Department of Anthropology, discusses why rising caesarean birth rates are driven not just by medical need but also by social, institutional, and psychological factors.

Dr Veronica Heney from our Institute for Medical Humanities and Department of Sociology has been awarded a Wellcome Early Career Award to re-configure understandings of self-harm.

We warmly welcome our new IMH Co-Director, Shauna Concannon.