The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) is pleased to announce that the 2023 round of the New Networks in Critical Medical Humanities Funding Scheme is now open and invites applications for grants of up to £2500 to support networking activities.

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.

We’ve published a new brochure presenting a selection of research and engagement findings from over a decade’s worth of work from Hearing the Voice.

On 16 November, IMH held its first in-person research cabaret evening at the Old Cinema Launderette in Durham.

The Black Health and the Humanities Network is now hosted by the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

A new Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health (CPEMPH) has been launched by Professor Alex Broadbent, Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Institute for Medical Humanities.

We are seeking two part-time Associate Editors to join the Editorial Team of our medical humanities web platform The Polyphony.