MQ: Transforming Mental Health have recently launched a funding call providing a total of over £1 million to researchers exploring new and better ways to understand, treat and prevent mental illness. The MQ: Transforming Mental Health Fellows Award is looking for the best and brightest early-career scientists and clinicians from all corners of the Read more…
Medicine, markets and morals (MMM) is a multi-disciplinary research network on health and social care prioritisation and funding, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), led by Dr Lucy Frith (Liverpool) and Professor Cam Donaldson (Glasgow Caledonian University). The debate over health care funding in England is changing Read more…
By Dr Luna Dolezal, Department of Philosophy and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The New Generations in Medical Humanities cohort recently visited the Wellcome Trust in London. This three-day visit kicked off with a day dedicated to Public Engagement and hearing about Wellcome Trust’s various initiatives in this direction. Read more…
February 2015 Collaborative and Portfolio Awards now open Collaborative Awards provide groups of researchers with the support to pursue important research questions where a collaborative team effort is required. The scheme provides flexible funding for large-scale cross-disciplinary research led by multiple researchers. Collaborative Awards are available across our funding portfolio Read more…
A funding opportunity at the University of Leeds for someone wanting to do PhD research on how questions of community health and wellbeing interact with twentieth-century literary fictions. The doctoral researcher will conduct an in-depth study of health and wellbeing as they are conceptualised, contextualised and interrogated in contemporary (mid-late Read more…
The meeting is to discuss the expansion of the Wellcome Trust’s Medical Humanities, Research Resources and Society and Ethics funding streams, now open to a wider range of applications from the humanities, the social sciences and the arts. The Medical Humanities stream encourages bold and intellectually rigorous research applications that Read more…
The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council has recently launched a new website for its Science in Culture Theme. There is a web page for each of the Exploratory Awards, Research Networks and Fellowships which have received funding to date, together with news of further grant awards and events.
Over the past five years the Wellcome Trust has sought to add to our traditional focus on the history of medicine and biomedical ethics by enabling scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to apply to the Trust for funding. From 23 May 2013, all three of our funding Read more…
ARE YOU OR YOUR STUDENTS THINKING OF A DOCTORATE IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES? The Durham Centre for Medical Humanities is keen to support applications to the University’s various sources of funding for students holding, or expecting to hold, a first degree at 2:i level in relevant disciplines across the humanities, social Read more…
News just circulated through the Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland (MHRNS): The AHRC was at Edinburgh University on Friday 20th July 2012 to consult on the future of its various thematic priorities. Among other things mentioned at this meeting, it was noted that the AHRC will be part of a Read more…