Five bursaries of £175 are available for postgraduate research students to attend the second NNMHR Congress in Leeds in September. The funds cover travel costs and accommodation at Weetwood Hall for the nights of September 19th and 20th. Any student studying at Masters or PhD level is eligible to apply. Please Read more…
The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) was founded in 2013 with the purpose of connecting individuals and institutions working in this dynamic area of interdisciplinary research. The network numbers scholars, practitioners, health professionals, artists and health advocates amongst its members and held its first Congress at Durham Read more…
Natalie Mullen is a PhD candidate based at Lancaster University. Her research is funded by the AHRC and examines patient agency in the nineteenth-century asylum. The Inaugural Congress of the NNMHR (#NNMHR17) fell in the final weeks of the second year of my PhD. I had just finished working on Read more…
Diana Beljaars is PhD Researcher at the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, and her project situates on the intersection of human geography, medical humanities, health and disability geography, and the medical and clinical sciences of Tourette syndrome. Arriving in a beautiful late summer Durham, I made my Read more…
Ute Oswald is doing a PhD in the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, having already completed an MA at Hamburg University in Classical Archaeology and Italian and an MSt at Oxford University in Literature and Arts. I was fortunate enough to attend the Inaugural Congress of the Northern Read more…
Caitlin Stobie is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds working on representations of abortion, embodiment, and agency in southern African fiction. She is a research intern on the AHRC-funded research network “The Risks of Childbirth in Historical Perspective” and co-director of the Leeds Animal Studies Network. On Thursday Read more…
The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) and Durham Centre for Medical Humanities are delighted to welcome presenters and delegates to the Inaugural NNMHR Congress, Thursday 14 and Friday 15 September 2017. The logic of the Congress is simple: it is an opportunity for people who are Read more…
We are pleased to announce the draft schedule for the next Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research workshops. This workshop will be held at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday 10th June 2015 at Jessop West Exhibition Space. As always, the day promises a very exciting selection of panels and Read more…
Following on from a fantastic session in Liverpool last month, we are pleased to announce that the preliminary schedule for the next in the series of Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research workshops has just been released. This workshop will take place on Friday 16th January 2015 at the University Read more…
Friday 21st November 2014, 10.30 – 5pm The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Registration Open: Please email Harriet Ryder to register. The University of Liverpool’s Centre for Health, Arts and Science (CHARTS) is hosting the second in the series of Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research workshops. We are delighted that this workshop is Read more…