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New creative facilitation training on offer for care-experienced adults

Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and Blue Cabin have secured funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to deliver a free, nine-month training programme for care-experienced young adults.

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MedHums 101: What is Medical Humanities? A New Brochure by The Polyphony

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

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IMH Publishes its April Newsletter

News and insights from the Institute for Medical Humanities.

ICYMI: Global Medical Humanities Roundtable

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.

Medical Humanities Global Week event 2025

Call for applications: Lead a funded Research Theme within IMH

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

We’re hiring! New job opportunities at The Platform

Could one of our new research roles be for you?

Welcome to Katharine Cheston

A warm welcome to Katharine Cheston, who joins the Discovery Research Platform as a Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Medical Humanities.

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Reimagining the imagination at the world’s largest literary festival

Researchers from our Institute for Medical Humanities have taken our innovative ReaderBank project to the Jaipur Literature Festival in Rajasthan, India.