We are delighted to announce that four Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellows will be joining the Discovery Research Platform in June 2025.

The May 2025 edition of our newsletter is now available online.

Professor Angela Woods, Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH) and a Professor of Medical Humanities in our Department of English Studies, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Linköping University.

How can we use people’s lived experience of health and illness to improve clinical practice? This has been the focus for Professor Jane Macnaughton as the founder of our Institute for Medical Humanities. For the last 25 years, Jane has been at the forefront of this area of research, striving to humanise medical education.

People in police custody with health issues are regularly put at risk because medication is delayed or unavailable.

The Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference has ended. Registration is now closed.

The Institute for Medical Humanities and Blue Cabin are working together to launch a free, nine-month training programme for care-experienced young adults aged 18 to 25.

News and insights from the Institute for Medical Humanities.

The Polyphony is delighted to announce the publication of a new brochure — MedHums 101: What is Medical Humanities?

We are delighted to announce that the recording of our event ‘Global Medical Humanities: What next for the humanities in health research?’ is now available.

Fellows of the Institute for Medical Humanities invited to pitch ideas to develop and lead two new Research Themes.

Could one of our new research roles be for you?