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.
Hosted by the University of Kent’s Medical Humanities Network in partnership with the Churchill Foundation, and led by Professor Ian Sabroe and Dr Dieter Declercq, the ‘Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health’ series aims to connect the humanities and medicine by bringing together health professionals, scholars, and the public in meaningful dialogue to discuss how the arts and humanities can (and do currently) inform healthcare. Each instalment features a central guest who is encouraged to discuss the interactions of arts, humanities, and health in their career, as well as insights into the challenges and best practice they may have encountered. Conversations are then shared with followers in a range of different media formats, including podcast, reflective summaries, and social media.
As part of their current third season, the ‘Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health’ podcast invited IMH Director and Hearing the Voice Co-Director, Professor Angela Woods, to discuss the developments in her research and her perspective on how the field of Medical and Health Humanities has changed over the last 10 years. The podcast also explored some of the challenges that interdisciplinary collaboration can bring and what the field can do to address barriers to evolution within the field of medical and health humanities – particularly for Early Career Researchers.
Alongside her role as our Institute’s Director, Angela is the founding editor of The Polyphony and a former Associate Editor of BMJ and IME’s international journal, Medical Humanities. Angela’s research works at the intersections of Cultural Theory, Psychology, Philosophy and Literary Studies, and focuses primarily on the experiences and frameworks for understanding psychosis and voice-hearing as well as narrative approaches to mental health and critical concepts within the medical humanities more generally.
Season 3, episode 14, of the podcast featuring Angela is now available to listen to via Anchor and Spotify, with a short reflective summary of the key takeaway messages from the podcast also available to read via the University of Kent’s website.
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