Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH) is delighted to announce the launch of a new suite of Postgraduate Degrees in Medical Humanities offering a range of options for students. Applications are now open for a October 2022 start!
Students can choose to study wholly online through remote and distance learning, or through a combination of online and face-to-face modules. Full programme details and information on how to apply is available at MAs in Medical Humanities - Durham University
Key distinctive features:
Programme Director, Prof Angela Woods said:
“Durham has become established globally as a leading centre for critical and cutting-edge research in the medical humanities. After years of development, we are delighted to be able to offer a taught programme that brings students into the heart of this dynamic research environment.” “One of the great strengths of the medical humanities is the field’s openness to diverse ways of approaching health and human experience. We are offering students the chance to learn from academic specialists but also from those working in healthcare and policy settings, activists, and experts by experience. Our starting point is to ask who gets to produce knowledge about health, and with what effects.”
“Durham has become established globally as a leading centre for critical and cutting-edge research in the medical humanities. After years of development, we are delighted to be able to offer a taught programme that brings students into the heart of this dynamic research environment.”
“One of the great strengths of the medical humanities is the field’s openness to diverse ways of approaching health and human experience. We are offering students the chance to learn from academic specialists but also from those working in healthcare and policy settings, activists, and experts by experience. Our starting point is to ask who gets to produce knowledge about health, and with what effects.”
This interdisciplinary programme introduces students to a variety of different disciplinary perspectives and methodologies for studying health, understood as something that is not simply a property of individual bodies but is produced through and reflected in discourse, shaped by institutions, and materialised in our relationships, communities and everyday environments.
The training will equip students to undertake further research into health and human experience in a variety of contexts.
Modules are taught by a team of specialists from across the humanities and social sciences, including individuals working in healthcare and policy settings, drawing on expertise from Medical Humanities, Anthropology, English, Geography, Law, Modern Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, and Sociology.
Courses designed with a diverse student cohort in mind.
The programme welcomes graduates from across the humanities and social sciences, intercalating medical students, and individuals with professional experience or career aspirations in clinical, policy or other health-related settings.
In recognition of differences in students’ learning needs and other commitments, there is the option to study full-time or part-time, wholly online or through a combination of online and in-person modules. Options include a distance learning Masters In Medical Humanities which is the first of its kind in the world.
‘We want to make postgraduate study in medical humanities as accessible as possible.’
All students will undertake two core modules, delivered online:
The additional modules chosen will depend on the programme you would like to join:
Applications are now open for a start in October 2022!
Find out more about the course options and how to apply at MAs in Medical Humanities - Durham University.
Read our special MA in Medical Humanities newsletter.
We will be hosting some online and in-person events over the coming months to introduce the suite of programmes to prospective students. If you are interested in attending one of these events or would like to find out more about the programmes, please
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