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CfP Experience, Medicine and Marginalisation: 3rd Congress of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research, University of Sheffield, 23-24 January 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS The third NNMHR Congress will be held at the University of Sheffield in January 2020. The theme of the Congress is ‘Experience, Medicine and Marginalisation’. In line with the 1st and 2nd Congresses, the logic of this Congress is simple: it is an opportunity for people who are passionate or even simply […]
New Hera Project for MHS Co-Director Philip Withington
Philip Withington is collaborating with colleagues at Oldenburg, Stockholm and Utrecht, to reveal the Forgotten history of tobacco, caffeines, chocolate, sugar, and opium set to be revealed by historians.
Read Julia Moses on risk and workplace accidents
Julia Moses has written a blog for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health / Centres for Disease Control webpage, related to her recent book on risk and workplace accidents: Workplace Accidents, Occupational Illness and the Long Road to Workers’ Compensation and Safety Policies around the World.
Sheffield to host Third Conference of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research
We’re delighted that Sheffield has been chosen as the host of the Third Conference of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research. The conference theme is ‘Experience’ and we are looking forward to welcoming national and international researchers. Watch this space for further details ….
Two New Seed Awards for Medical Humanities
Medical Humanities Sheffield has been successful in getting seed funding from the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research for two projects: ‘The epistemology of non-epileptic attack disorder’ is led by MHS member Jon Dickson, with Annamaria Carusi, Markus Reuber and Richard Grünewald as Sheffield collaborators. The project seeks to explore non-epileptic attack disorder as a […]
New book publication for MHS members Markus Reuber and Gregg Rawlings
Markus Reuber, Gregg Rawlings and Steven Schachter have published In our words: personal accounts of living with non-epileptic seizures. The book, published by Oxford University Press, includes over 100 stories from people with personal experience of nonepileptic seizures from around the world.
MHS International Collaborations
Medical Humanities continues to develop international collaborations through co-supervising students at European universities. Ragna Winniewski’s doctoral project on The Phenomenologies of the Senses, is co-supervised by Annamaria Carusi of MHS and Prof. dr. Thiemo Breyer of the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Cologne. In embarking on this cross-national project, Ragna is continuing in […]
Wellcome Postdoctoral Award for Steffan Blayney
Steffan Blayney has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Award, working closely with Chris Millard. His project explores mental health activism, anti-capitalist politics and the radical left in Britain from 1956 to the present day. Steffan joined the Department of History in 2018, after researching and teaching at Birkbeck, Kent and […]
‘AI in the Clinic’, new Wellcome Trust Seed Project
We are delighted that Annamaria Carusi’s project ‘AI in the Clinic’, has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, under the themed call for Seed project in AI in Healthcare and Medicine. The project is a collaboration between Medical Humanities, the Pulmonary and Vascular Diseases Unit at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Insigneo Institute for in silico […]
PhD student Lijiaozi Cheng tells her story
PhD Student Lijiaozi Cheng recently participated in Research Tales from Arts and Humanities, a public engagement event on the 17th May, which was the culmination of a series of workshops on Arts and Humanities Storytelling. Watch Lijiaozi tell the story of how she came to her research idea, as well as setting out some of […]
Wellcome studentship for Kate McAllister
Catherine (Kate) McAllister has recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship in Humanities and Social Science, to be supervised by Dr Chris Millard and Prof Adrian Bingham. The PhD is provisionally entitled: ‘Epidemic Encephalitis and the Intersection of General and Mental Health Service Provision in Sheffield, 1917-1951’. We look forward to welcome Kate to […]
MA in Medicine in Society to begin in September 2019
Our new MA in Medicine in Society begins in September 2019. It’s an exciting new opportunity to explore medicine from the interdisciplinary perspectives of philosophy, history, sociology, politics and ethics. Read more about the MA here. If you have any questions, contact Annamaria Carusi. […]
Crowdsourcing for Health Project
The Wellcome Trust Seed Funded project, ‘Crowdsourcing for Health’, came to an end in June 2017. The project saw Annamaria Carusi and collaborators becoming increasingly immersed in social media platforms for gathering and sharing knowledge among scientists, regulators, and patients. The Adverse Outcome Pathway community, which has the broad aim of shifting chemical safety testing […]
Moving Bodies: Two humanities/engineering pilot projects
Annamaria Carusi of MHS and Claudia Mazzà of the Faculty of Engineering and Insigneo have collaborated on two exciting and innovative pilot projects, bringing together humanities and engineering perspectives on different aspects of movement. Making things through movement explored the creative, socially beneficial and therapeutic benefits of working with and through movement across disabled and […]
Suicide, Society and Crisis. Julie Gottlieb’s Wellcome Trust Seed Funded project
Dr Julie Gottlieb’s Seed Award in Humanities and Social Science will begin in late 2017 supported by The Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation which supports researchers in their efforts to take on big problems, and to spark debates. The project is entitled ‘Suicide, Society and Crisis’ and will focus on links between suicide and […]
MHS student awarded Professor David Locker Research Scholarship
MHS student Tom Broomhead has recently been awarded the Professor David Locker Research Scholarship. Tom, whose PhD is titled ‘Neighbourhood effects – spatial inequalities in oral health’, is currently approaching the fourth year of his PhD. Tom writes that through this research: “I have been able to apply my geographical knowledge to a new field […]
Epistemic injustice and medicine
Prof Miranda Fricker (Sheffield) and Prof Boudewijn de Bruin (Groningen) have won a research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to fund two philosophy PhD students at Sheffield and Groningen to work on epistemic (in)justice and its detrimental effects in two professional fields: finance and healthcare. The healthcare branch of the project grows partly […]
Crowdsourcing for health. New Wellcome Trust seed funded project
31 March, 2016 We have recently heard that an application for seed funding from the Wellcome Trust themed call ‘Social media and health’, has been successful. ‘Crowdsourcing for Health’ is a partnership between Medical Humanities Sheffield, the Philosophy Department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre’s Institute […]
Interview with Professor Jonathan Montgomery
Professor Jonathan Montgomery is Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and of the Health Research Authority, which protects and promotes the interests of participants, patients and the public in health research and aims to streamline its regulation. He is Professor of Health Care Law at the University College London (UCL). MHS member Morgan Shimwell […]
Coverage of the A320 crash: mental health in the media
– Amy Stone, Administrator at the University of Sheffield and member of the Medical Humanities Sheffield Student Social Group I love to hate some sections of the press as much as anyone – but can we blame them for saying what so many people think? The Germanwings A320 crash of 24th March 2015 was a […]
Subjectivity and Self-reflection: The Humanities Perspective on Illness
The Medical Humanities Lecture series that has been running throughout 2014/15 begun with Dr Angela Woods discussing her use of phenomenological investigations into auditory verbal hallucinations, followed by Dr Saurabh Mishra’s exploration of middle class anxieties in British India over the widespread adulteration of dairy products. This article will be discussing the last two talks […]
Medical Humanities approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Dr Angela Woods, a Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities from Durham University, opened Sheffield University’s ‘Medical School Humanities Lecture Series’ by presenting preliminary findings from the innovative study “What is it like to hear voices?” This research is part of a larger project called “Hearing the Voice” which brings interdisciplinary and medical humanities approaches to […]
Interview with Michelle Winslow and Sam Smith
Michelle Winslow and Sam Smith lead an oral history project at The Sheffield Macmillan Unit for Palliative Care. Together with project volunteers, they have been making oral history recordings with people in the unit since 2007 with funding from Friends of the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield Hospitals Charity and Macmillan Cancer Support. We caught up […]
Interview with Singer Songwriter Karine Polwart
During December the award winning singer songwriter Karine Polwart visited Medical Humanities Sheffield for a three day artist in residence programme. Vicky Grant and Amy Stone caught up with Karine to learn more Amy: Welcome to Medical Humanities Sheffield Karine. Tell us how the collaboration came about. Karine: It was Ian (Professor Ian Sabroe, Director […]
What is Addiction?
Phil Withington, Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, was invited to participate in this panel on ‘What is Addiction?’ at the annual Battle of Ideas in London, and this is what happened. Now that the prestigious Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (DSM V) has recognised gambling as a behavioural addiction, […]
“Anorexia is not a choice” – Interview with Emma Woolf
Emma Woolf is the author of An Apple a Day and The Ministry of Thin and is the great-grandniece of Virginia Woolf. Emma recently gave a talk at Sheffield Students’ Union as part of Off The Shelf Festival of Words 2013. We grabbed 5 minutes to ask about her mission to raise awareness of eating […]
The story behind the MHS logo
The wonderful logo for MHS is by L. Gregory, who was aged 10 when she drew her design. L. Gregory was the winner of the Medical Humanities Sheffield Logo Competition, which we held in Westways Primary School in the spring of 2013. The competition was open to all Y5 and Y6 pupils, and as you […]