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Institute for Medical Humanities
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Applications now open for Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship Scheme

13 January 2025
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A structure of interconnected platforms and floating islands on a stormy sea. Each platform features items that reflect the Labs and Sites of the Platform. Top left to top right: Visual and Material, The WellSpring, Measurement, Narrative and Cognition, The Festival. Bottom left to bottom right: The Practice, Affective Experience, Narrative Practice, Moving Bodies.

The scheme aims to support professionals and researchers from Health or Voluntary and Community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.

Do you think that Medical Humanities approaches or methods could help you to better understand a critical issue in your practice? 

Applications have now opened for our Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme, which aims to support professionals and researchers from Health or Voluntary and Community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. 

This year-long, funded Fellowship will enable you to develop or deliver a research project through a Medical Humanities lens on a critical issue encountered in your practice. This might include engagement activities to explore a topic or develop a research idea with potential collaborators from the medical humanities, community groups and/or health and VCSE sectors, such as exploratory workshops or focus groups. 

Applications are particularly encouraged for research projects which set out to explore health challenges arising at the intersection of mental health and health inequalities, and aim to develop new and experimental approaches to tackling these health challenges, particularly in connection to underrepresented groups, race and health, neurodiversity or lived experience research.

During the 1 year Fellowship, you will: 

  • Receive a £12,000 grant to support your research plan
  • Become a member of the Discovery Research Platform, with access to an exciting range of events, activities and networks  
  • Enjoy one-on-one support to help you develop your research ideas  
  • Attend five cohort workshops throughout the year (two in-person, three online) where you’ll learn from medical humanities examples, share learning, build links and showcase your work 

Applications from, or focused on, underrepresented or less heard from groups within health research are strongly encouraged. The scheme is open to UK residents only.  

To find out more about the Fellowship and how to apply, please see our dedicated webpage or download the information pack. 

The deadline for applications is 28 February 2025, 12:00 pm (noon). 

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