We are happy to announce that Dr Marta Cenedese has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, and will be joining IMH from April 2024-26.

Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities and Hearing the Voice are delighted to announce the release of our new Royal College of Psychiatrists CPD e-Learning module on ‘Recovery Narrative in Clinical Practice’ by Åsa Jansson, Angela Woods, Akiko Hart and Chris Cook.

IMH members Veronica Heney and Arya Thampuran, together with their colleague Kelechi Anucha, are delighted to report the success of the Cultures of Madness seminar series, which ran bi-monthly over the last academic year.

Congratulations to Liyuan Jiao (焦丽媛), who has been awarded the Durham-CSC joint PhD scholarship.

As a university rooted in North East England, we’re always looking for ways to work with local partners to help our region thrive.

Dr Yamikani Ndasauka will be spending a year with us as a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health (CPEMPH, recently established within the IMH) and as a member of the DRP Measurement Lab.

Research funding received to understand older prisoners' experiences of movement.

New grant awarded to Professor Tessa Pollard and Professor Cassie Phoenix to evaluate active and sustainable travel practices in structurally disempowered rural communities

We are pleased to announce the ‘Affective Experience Lab’, one of six Labs in Durham University’s new Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

The Measurement Lab is part of the new Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) that will be hosted by the IMH from September 2023 to the end of August 2030. The Lab is also linked to and supported by the Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine and Public Health.

Led by Marco Bernini, the Narrative and Cognition Lab will bring together scholars from narrative theory, cognitive scientists (philosophers of mind, neuroscientists, psychologists, phenomenologists, neurobiologists), and creative artists to create a methodological catalyst for exploring narrative, cognition, and narrative cognition.

The DeepEnd will develop new insights into intractable questions around health inequalities, mental health, and the treatment of complex multimorbidities.