The Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH) at Durham University is delighted to introduce “The Polyphony Meets China”, a new collaborative project between our web platform The Polyphony and the Narrative Medicine Research Centre (NMRC) at Southern Medical University (SMU).

A new report has been published which examines the barriers facing medical humanities researchers and identifies strategies for the future development of the field.

Dr Louise Creechan, IMH Lecturer in Literary Medical Humanities, interviewed on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking programme 'How to Read' discussing reading, Dyslexia and Neurodiversity.

Prof Jane Macnaughton, former Director of Institute for Medical Humanities, has been recognised for her ‘significant contribution to medicine, healthcare and medical education’ by The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI).

In the latest edition of the Institute for Medical Humanities' (IMH) newsletter, we welcome and congratulate a plethora of IMH staff on their new roles, outputs, and funding awards; discuss the success of our latest mental health voluntary sector workshop; and share our response to a UKRI PGR Consultation. We also highlight a selection of top-viewed articles from The Polyphony, share details of an upcoming 'Confabulations' event, and feature a new publication from the Hearing the Voice project.

The Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH) are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Professor in Practice, Akiko Hart.

The Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH) are delighted to announce that Dr Ellen Kendall has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Early-Career Fellowship for the project titled: ‘Bodies of Water: Health Trade-offs and Climate Change in British Wetlands during the First Millennium AD’. The project will investigate trade-offs in human health in British wetlands during the Roman and medieval periods, with the aim of facilitating distinct insights into the benefits and risks of wetland environments.

The most recent instalment of the University of Kent’s Medical Humanities Network podcast, ‘Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health’, proudly features our Institute’s Director and Hearing the Voice Co-Director, Professor Angela Woods.

On Friday 1 July, the Institute for Medical Humanities' NWO Rubicon Research Fellow, Dr Ruben Verwaal, was proud to open the exhibition, ‘Yo, doc, listen up! (‘Hoor eens even!’), in the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam.

The Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH), in partnership with the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), were proud to host a roundtable discussion with mental health-focused organisations in the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector, alongside Durham University researchers, in London on 29 June. The purpose of the event was to inform and shape the Institute’s future strategy for developing and sustaining long-term partnerships and research exchanges within the VCSE sector.

Following on from the successful work of Dr Christy Slobogin, the Northern Network for Medical Humanities (NNMHR) and Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH) welcomes Dr James Rákóczi to the role of Early-Career Researcher (ECR) Development Lead. IMH thanks Christy for all her efforts and wishes James the best of luck in this new endeavour.

The Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH) respond to the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Consultation on a ‘New Deal’ for the future of Postgraduate Research (PGR).