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Our Team

IMH Directors

Name Role
Professor Angela Woods Director
Professor Corinne Saunders Co-Director
Dr Angela Marques Filipe Co-Director
Dr Samantha Halliday Co-Director
Professor Sarah Atkinson Associate Director

 

Professional Services Staff

Name Role
Evelyn Tehrani Senior Research & Engagement Manager
Mary Robson Senior Creative Facilitation Manager
Victoria Patton Senior Digital Development & Communications Manager
Carolyn Blake Operations Manager
Akiko Hart Professor in Practice
Becca Doggwiler Digital & Communications Officer
Yundi Guo Administrator
Arya Ray Events & Fellows Coordinator
Haf Serajee Events & Fellows Coordinator
David Sanders Finance Officer
Alona Snisarenko General Administrator
Joyanne Chan Communications Intern
Ifejuola Atunwa Partnerships & Engagement Intern

 

IMH Professors in Practice

Name Role
Nick Barley Professor in Practice
Dr Jonny Coates Professor in Practice
Akiko Hart Professor in Practice

 

Academic Staff in the MA in Medical Humanities

Name Role
Dr Adam Powell Course convenor for the MA in Medical Humanities, Lecturer in Medical Humanities

 

Academic Staff in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities

Name Role
Professor Angela Woods (Director) Professor in English Studies
Ben Alderson-Day (Co-Director) Associate Professor in Psychology
Sarah Atkinson Professor in Geography
Marco Bernini Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies, English Studies
Alex Broadbent Professor of Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
Marta Cenedese UKRI Fellow
Robert Chapman Assistant Professor in Critical Neurodiversity Studies, Philosophy
Louise Creechan Lecturer in Literary Medical Humanities, English Studies
Teti Dragas Associate Professor in Education
Megan Girdwood Assistant Professor in Modern Literature, English Studies
Veenu Gupta Assistant Professor in Lived Experience, Psychology
Victoria (Pip) Hardy Bridging Fellow
Veronica Heney Associate Professor in Sociology
Rong Huang Visiting Fellow
Rebecca Jackson Bridging Fellow
Fiona Johnstone Assistant Professor in Visual & Material Studies, English Studies
Laura Mazzoli Smith Associate Professor in Education
Coreen McGuire Assistant Professor in 20th Century British History
Cassandra Phoenix Professor in Sports and Exercise Sciences
Tessa Pollard Professor in Anthropology
Jesse Proudfoot Assistant Professor in Sociology
Georgia Punton Postdoctoral Research Associate in Psychology of the Imagination, Psychology
Fraser Riddell Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities, English Studies
Corinne Saunders Professor in English Studies
Nicola Simonetti Bridging Fellow
Tony Sumner Curatorial Fellow
Arya Thampuran Assistant Professor in Black Health and the Humanities
Emily Tupper Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities, Sport and Exercise Sciences
Michael Vine Postdoctoral Researcher

 

Visiting Fellows and Researchers

Name Role
Katharine Cheston Visiting Researcher
Teti Dragas Visiting Fellow
David Martin Visiting Fellow
Richard Walsh Visiting Fellow
Mike Wheeler Visiting Fellow
David Woodhead Visiting Researcher

 

Honorary Fellows and Associates

Name Role
Professor Jane Macnaughton Senior Research Fellow
Dr Ruben Verwaal Honorary Fellow
Dr Mary Coaten Honorary Fellow
Reverend Emeritus Professor Chris Cook Honorary Fellow
Dr Will Viney Honorary Fellow
Dr James Rákóczi Honorary Fellow
Dr Kelechi Anucha Honorary Fellow
David Woodhead Honorary Fellow
Anna Stenning Honorary Fellow
Dr Jonny Coates Honorary Fellow
Dawn Williams Honorary Fellow
Dr Chimwemwe Phiri Honorary Fellow
Dr Katharine Cheston Honorary Fellow

 

IMH Fellows

A full list of IMH Fellows can be found on our Fellows page.