We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr James Rákóczi as an Honorary Fellow with IMH.

Announcing the launch of the NNMHR-funded network "Neurodivergent Humanities" at the upcoming NNMHR Congress.

Three members of IMH have received grants from the Global Engagement Grants, a Durham University scheme which supports global engagement and partnership development.

December saw the release of the newest IMH newsletter, filled with updates about recent activities and information about upcoming events.

We are delighted to welcome Cat Chong as a visiting PhD student from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. Based at IMH until the end of 2023, Cat is a poet, publisher, essayist, and medical humanities PhD student. Their work considers the intersections between genderqueerness, disability, and chronic illness within lyric hybrid-genre memoirs.

Earlier this month the Institute for Medical Humanities hosted a book launch celebrating the publication of Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives edited by Angela Woods, Ben Alderson-Day and Charles Fernyhough.