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Institute for Medical Humanities
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Current Research Projects and Activities

In addition to our research themes, we also support a range of research projects and activities as an Institute and via our Discovery Research Platform.

Research projects currently supported by the IMH include:

 

 

Discovery Research Platform Projects

Research projects supported by the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities include:

ReaderBank

The world's most ambitious study of the links between reading, imagination and wellbeing.
ReaderBank logo featuring an opened book over the word 'ReaderBank' in uppercase font.

SUNRISE Study

Exploring how research into the subjective experience of depression, anxiety and psychosis is conducted, valued and taken up within mental health research.
Photograph of three people sitting on a sofa watching the television, with atmospheric lighting and backs facing the camera.

Blue Cabin Creative Facilitation Training

Free training in Creative Facilitation for care-experienced young adults.
logo of 'blue cabin', with a tepee made out of basic shapes in between the words. The text 'in' in 'cabin' is in light blue.

Changing Gears

A project exploring how participation in an e-bike cycling skills programme might foster new forms of social participation and community building.
Photograph of two cyclists cycling away from the camera, down a nature path with trees surrounding it.

Under Pressure

Investigating the physiological and psychological effects of global warming through a historical and cultural geography of “meteorosensitivity”.
Science sketch of a diagram concerning pressure.