Vienna is a pretty good place to be in late November/early December with the advent markets getting going and the city decked out for Christmas. With that in mind, Andrew Russell (CMH Affiliate and Co-Chair of the Smoking Interest Group) and I decided to submit an abstract for the 15th Read more…
Three members of the Smoking Interest Group (including myself, Andrew Russell and Sue Lewis) have been in Singapore to attend the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health. This is a huge three-yearly conference bringing together 2600 delegates working in all aspects of tobacco control – from youth workers to Read more…
The Smoking Interest Group (SIG), a collaboration between Durham University’s CMH and Affiliates in the Medical Anthropology Research Group, had its first public outing at a one day symposium supported by the Wolfson Research Institute and held at the Dowrick Suite at Trevelyan College on 21st September. Around 40 invited Read more…
The Smoking Interest Group (SIG) was established at Durham in October 2010 and aims to use insights from the humanities and social sciences to develop a more nuanced understanding of the experience of smoking and the reality of smokers’ lives. SIG is located in the Centre for Medical Humanities at Read more…
The work of the Smoking Interest Group has been included in a new report from Research Councils UK (RCUK) that explores the excellent research taking place currently in UK higher education and what it will mean for us in 20 years time. The report, called Big Ideas for the Future, Read more…