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Come work with us! New Postdoctoral Research Associate opportunity with The Platform

IMH and Department of Sociology at Durham University seek to appoint a talented researcher and scholar to the role of Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on The Practice Site, part of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH).
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Leverhulme success for Moving Bodies Lab researcher

Leverhulme Research Fellowship awarded to Dr Megan Girdwood, a researcher with the Moving Bodies Lab.
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We are hiring! New job opportunities at the Discovery Research Platform

Applications are now open for three Bridging Fellowships within the Discovery Research Platform at the Institute for Medical Humanities.
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Welcoming Marta Cenedese to the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities

Marta joins the IMH as a UKRI fellow (guarantee for MSCA) and will be part of the Narrative Practices Lab in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
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Creative Methods Workshop

On March 11th 2024 Hazel Marzetti visited the Discovery Research Platform, and together with Veronica Heney facilitated a workshop exploring interpretation and creative methods.
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Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities Launch

You are warmly invited to join us for the launch of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
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Welcome to Arya Ray

A warm welcome to Arya Ray, who joins the Discovery Research Platform as our Events & Fellows Coordinator.
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Welcome to our IMH Fellows

IMH welcomes Fellows from across the medical humanities community at Durham University.
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Free Thinking: What is normal?

IMH researchers Louise Creechan and Robert Chapman discuss neurodiversity, disability and madness in an episode of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking.
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IMH announces two new IMH Co-Directors

A warm welcome to Angela Marques Filipe and Samantha Halliday.
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Inside Health: What’s stopping us from exercising in older age?

Professor Cassie Phoenix features on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health with James Gallagher.
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Twinkind: The singular significance of twins

Congratulations to William Viney on the publication of Twinkind: The singular significance of twins.
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