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 Centre for Translational Research in Public Health presents two seminars: Understanding the Influence of Evidence in Public Health Policy: What can we learn from the ‘tobacco wars’? Thursday 8th March 2012 13.00 – 14.00 (refreshments available from 12.45) Room A12, Holliday building, Stockton Campus, Durham University Dr Katherine Smith 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…
Sarah Atkinson, Associate Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities, has written to Durham Vice-Chancellor Professor Chris Higgins to request the University reject a donation of £125,000 from a tobacco firm to help fund scholarships for women from Afghanistan. Download her Letter to Professor Chis Higgins re British American Tobacco and Read more…