Colleagues, collaborators, mentees, former students and friends reflected on the role Jane has played in developing the medical humanities, extending its reach, and inspiring its next generations.
Dr Katharine Cheston, Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Medical Humanities, discusses the treatment of people with ME and its wider implications in terms of affective injustice in healthcare.
This lecture titled 'Rethinking seasons in light of living with sadness' was delivered on Tuesday 20 January 2026 by Professor Hester Parr from the University of Glasgow. It was part of the of the 'Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing'
This lecture titled 'Summer running in London: Exploring how recreational exercise cultures respond to seasonal heat and what that means for healthy exercise promotion' was delivered on Tuesday 20 January 2026 by Antonia Hodgson from UCL.
World Literature and Epigenetics: Women Narrating Transgenerational Trauma was hosted by the IMH on 27 March 2026. This was the first workshop to bring together creative writers and scholars from the fields of epigenetics, anthropology, psychology, bioscience, law and literature to explore how trauma is lived, narrated, and transmitted across generations.
Watch the event recordings from this workshop
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