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.

Women in the prison system often have complex mental health problems, frequently alongside long-term physical conditions, with women from racial minority backgrounds worst affected.

The May edition of our newsletter has been sent to subscribers and is available to read online.

We are delighted to announce our confirmed Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellows who will be joining the Discovery Research Platform in June 2026.

New research involving one of our psychologists reveals more about what drives female prisoners to reoffend, and how this can be better prevented.

A new landscaping report co-authored by Durham University researchers and the McPin Foundation highlights the critical role of subjective experience in understanding mental health and improving therapeutic interventions.

A warm welcome to Johanna Thren, who joins the Discovery Research Platform and Institute for Medical Humanities as a Creative Facilitation Specialist within our Creative Facilitation Unit led by Mary Robson.

The April edition of our newsletter has been sent to subscribers and is available to read online.