International Centre for Moral Injury

This new scheme aims to support professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors in the UK to develop research within the medical humanities. The 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 month we were pleased to welcome our steering group member the Rev'd Colonel Timothy Mallard, PhD, MSS to Durham. Timothy will be spending a year with us as a Visiting Research Fellow at St Chad’s College, while continuing his Honorary Fellowship with the Department of Theology and Religion.

We are delighted to announce that the ICMI will soon be commencing a new research project entitled, “Recovery from moral injury across the North East of England and beyond: Researching and refining the theological tools available to chaplains”.

Our 2025 conference will be held in person in Durham on 7-9 April. This conference seeks to highlight research and facilitate conversations on ways of envisioning social recovery from moral injury in a wide variety of cultural and vocational contexts. The conference will feature talks from a variety of academic disciplines and from people in various sectors with practical experiences of care for those with moral injury.

In April 2024 we had the pleasure of hosting a photography exhibition entitled Afghanistan Veterans: Moral Injury and Righting Wrongs.

The DThM is a professional doctorate in theology likely to be of particular interest to chaplains and clergy. It offers the chance to do a research project at doctoral level, for example on moral injury.