Dr Jessica Campbell
@drjesscampbell.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine 📚 Psychiatry, Madness, Mental Health, The Arts & Experience. Project Manager @HubMetPsych
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📢Check out @stinaface.bsky.social's online and in-person book launches for 'Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture' 👇
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MHHums #MedHums
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MHHums #MedHums
Just sent round details of an online and in-person book launch for Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture. Online event: Tues 2nd December 5-6pm. In-person: Weds 3rd December 5-6.30pm, UoB campus in Muirhead Tower. DM for full details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture
This book explores contemporary cultural narratives across film, television, and literature to illuminate the way male mental illness is positioned
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November 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📢Check out @stinaface.bsky.social's online and in-person book launches for 'Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture' 👇
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MHHums #MedHums
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MHHums #MedHums
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Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
#histmed
#histmed
Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives.
This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
#histmed
#histmed
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I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs.
Please share!
Please share!
CALL FOR PAPERS! Broadly Conceived invite chapter proposals for an edited collection exploring new directions in Reproduction Studies.
Read the full call out: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/broadly-conc...
Submit a proposal: forms.office.com/e/csESr71mgv
Deadline: 30 November 2026, 23.59 UK time.
Read the full call out: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/broadly-conc...
Submit a proposal: forms.office.com/e/csESr71mgv
Deadline: 30 November 2026, 23.59 UK time.
October 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs.
Please share!
Please share!
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....and we're back! 🚀
We're buzzing about what we got up to at our Paper Writing Retreat 2025 for #mentalhealth & #addiction researchers!
Whilst we work on our recap, please enjoy the below snaps & register your interest for future retreats:
📢 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/writing-retr...
We're buzzing about what we got up to at our Paper Writing Retreat 2025 for #mentalhealth & #addiction researchers!
Whilst we work on our recap, please enjoy the below snaps & register your interest for future retreats:
📢 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/writing-retr...
September 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
....and we're back! 🚀
We're buzzing about what we got up to at our Paper Writing Retreat 2025 for #mentalhealth & #addiction researchers!
Whilst we work on our recap, please enjoy the below snaps & register your interest for future retreats:
📢 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/writing-retr...
We're buzzing about what we got up to at our Paper Writing Retreat 2025 for #mentalhealth & #addiction researchers!
Whilst we work on our recap, please enjoy the below snaps & register your interest for future retreats:
📢 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/writing-retr...
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WG3 2-day HYBRID conf hosted by University of Cluj-Napoca, (Romania).
* 'Sick, Suffering, Healed?' Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Patients in History *
16-18 September 2025 8:00 CET - 17:00 CET
Register by 10 Sep 2025 - check your email for info #CA22159 #EuroHistHealth #Skystorians #HistMed
* 'Sick, Suffering, Healed?' Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Patients in History *
16-18 September 2025 8:00 CET - 17:00 CET
Register by 10 Sep 2025 - check your email for info #CA22159 #EuroHistHealth #Skystorians #HistMed
September 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
WG3 2-day HYBRID conf hosted by University of Cluj-Napoca, (Romania).
* 'Sick, Suffering, Healed?' Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Patients in History *
16-18 September 2025 8:00 CET - 17:00 CET
Register by 10 Sep 2025 - check your email for info #CA22159 #EuroHistHealth #Skystorians #HistMed
* 'Sick, Suffering, Healed?' Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Patients in History *
16-18 September 2025 8:00 CET - 17:00 CET
Register by 10 Sep 2025 - check your email for info #CA22159 #EuroHistHealth #Skystorians #HistMed
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The #COSTAction #CA22159 Starter Pack for Members #skystorians interested in #MedicalHumanities #HealthHist #HealthHistory #MedHum #HSTM #HistMed #HistNursing #HistMidwifery. If you are a member and wish to be added, just email us! go.bsky.app/9EBAQz7
September 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The #COSTAction #CA22159 Starter Pack for Members #skystorians interested in #MedicalHumanities #HealthHist #HealthHistory #MedHum #HSTM #HistMed #HistNursing #HistMidwifery. If you are a member and wish to be added, just email us! go.bsky.app/9EBAQz7
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And hot on the heels of our #COST panels at #EAHMH25 last week in Berlin, this week our WG5 Heritage & Public Engagement group meet in #Leiden for 2 days exchanging perspectives on Valuable & Healing: Heritage Collections for & with Healthcare. Hybrid event - check your emails for details #CA22159
September 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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It's been a big week for the Hub with the publication of two major new papers! 📝
In Nature Mental Health, we set out key priorities for the emerging field of Metabolic Psychiatry and outline key questions to be answered regarding the relationship between metabolism and mental health 👇
In Nature Mental Health, we set out key priorities for the emerging field of Metabolic Psychiatry and outline key questions to be answered regarding the relationship between metabolism and mental health 👇
Metabolic psychiatry: key priorities for an emerging field
Nature Mental Health - In this Comment, we define the nascent field of metabolic psychiatry and highlight key questions regarding the overlap between metabolism and mental health. We also make...
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June 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's been a big week for the Hub with the publication of two major new papers! 📝
In Nature Mental Health, we set out key priorities for the emerging field of Metabolic Psychiatry and outline key questions to be answered regarding the relationship between metabolism and mental health 👇
In Nature Mental Health, we set out key priorities for the emerging field of Metabolic Psychiatry and outline key questions to be answered regarding the relationship between metabolism and mental health 👇
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What is 'metabolic psychiatry'? And how can we make meaningful advances in mental health prevention and treatment using metabolic science?
Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP
Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP
June 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What is 'metabolic psychiatry'? And how can we make meaningful advances in mental health prevention and treatment using metabolic science?
Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP
Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP
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Join us for the next Ethics of Medical Photography network online seminar on Fri 20 June, 2pm UK time. We'll have the wonderful @slobogin.bsky.social @rebeccawynter.bsky.social and Jason Bate sharing short "provocations" the topic of ANONYMITY! Book your place here: forms.gle/AzJK58rj5JA4...
The Ethics of Medical Photography Network Online Seminar
Join us for the next online seminar!
Friday 20 June 2020, 2-3.30 pm UK time
THE ETHICS OF ANONYMITY IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Speakers:
Dr Christine Slobogin (University of Rochester, NY)
Dr Rebecca ...
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June 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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New co-authored article out about #medhums teaching in the UK. Grateful to my co-authors for making this such a seamless process! #meded
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Teaching humanities in UK medical schools: towards community-building and coherence - Monash Bioethics Review
Medical humanities teaching in UK medical schools has lacked cohesion, having developed opportunistically in different locations. Cohesion is necessary to develop an identifiable community of practice...
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May 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New co-authored article out about #medhums teaching in the UK. Grateful to my co-authors for making this such a seamless process! #meded
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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HOOKED: New exhibition on 500 years of addiction opening soon @rcpedin.bsky.social
📅30 May 2025 – 13 Feb 2026
🕰️Mon – Fri, 10am - 4.30pm
🏛️Physicians' Gallery, 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ
Free entry
#histmed #skystorians
📅30 May 2025 – 13 Feb 2026
🕰️Mon – Fri, 10am - 4.30pm
🏛️Physicians' Gallery, 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ
Free entry
#histmed #skystorians
Hooked: 500 Years of Addiction
Hooked: 500 years of addiction
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May 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
HOOKED: New exhibition on 500 years of addiction opening soon @rcpedin.bsky.social
📅30 May 2025 – 13 Feb 2026
🕰️Mon – Fri, 10am - 4.30pm
🏛️Physicians' Gallery, 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ
Free entry
#histmed #skystorians
📅30 May 2025 – 13 Feb 2026
🕰️Mon – Fri, 10am - 4.30pm
🏛️Physicians' Gallery, 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ
Free entry
#histmed #skystorians
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Join us for the next Ethics of Medical Photography network online seminar on Fri 20 June, 2pm UK time. We'll have the wonderful @slobogin.bsky.social @rebeccawynter.bsky.social and Jason Bate sharing short "provocations" the topic of ANONYMITY! Book your place here: forms.gle/AzJK58rj5JA4...
The Ethics of Medical Photography Network Online Seminar
Join us for the next online seminar!
Friday 20 June 2020, 2-3.30 pm UK time
THE ETHICS OF ANONYMITY IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Speakers:
Dr Christine Slobogin (University of Rochester, NY)
Dr Rebecca ...
forms.gle
May 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Join us for the next Ethics of Medical Photography network online seminar on Fri 20 June, 2pm UK time. We'll have the wonderful @slobogin.bsky.social @rebeccawynter.bsky.social and Jason Bate sharing short "provocations" the topic of ANONYMITY! Book your place here: forms.gle/AzJK58rj5JA4...
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The #MentalHealth #Humanities Researcher Network is offering a platform for researchers to showcase their work.
@joannemccuaig.bsky.social is interested in 'public usage of mental health concepts, wellbeing, and environmental communication'. Find out more about Joanne's scholarship here 👇
@joannemccuaig.bsky.social is interested in 'public usage of mental health concepts, wellbeing, and environmental communication'. Find out more about Joanne's scholarship here 👇
Meet the Researcher: Joanne McCuaig – Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network
mhhrn.bham.ac.uk
May 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The #MentalHealth #Humanities Researcher Network is offering a platform for researchers to showcase their work.
@joannemccuaig.bsky.social is interested in 'public usage of mental health concepts, wellbeing, and environmental communication'. Find out more about Joanne's scholarship here 👇
@joannemccuaig.bsky.social is interested in 'public usage of mental health concepts, wellbeing, and environmental communication'. Find out more about Joanne's scholarship here 👇
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If you are in Liverpool on Thursday and are interested in how history can help solve the mental health crisis, please come along!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...
www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...
Henry Cohen History of Medicine Lecture 2025
Rates of mental illness are rising, waiting lists are lengthy and recent BBC programmes have revealed scandalous conditions and abuse at psychiatric facilities. Apart from demanding more funds to supp...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you are in Liverpool on Thursday and are interested in how history can help solve the mental health crisis, please come along!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...
www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...
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The latest issue of History of Photography is out and it includes my article on the funding and institutionalisation of medical photography! I loved that they used the only photo in the article, a negative glass plate of the Salpêtrière photo studio, in the front cover ❤️ #photohist #histmed
April 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The latest issue of History of Photography is out and it includes my article on the funding and institutionalisation of medical photography! I loved that they used the only photo in the article, a negative glass plate of the Salpêtrière photo studio, in the front cover ❤️ #photohist #histmed
Really looking forward to this Discovery Session event on the 29th! Please come along to explore mental health-related collections held by the Lothian Health Services Archives with members of CAPS Independent Advocacy 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...
Discovery Session: CAPS Independent Advocacy and LHSA
Join us to explore the Lothian Health Service Archive alongside our co-curators from CAPS Independent Advocacy
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April 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Really looking forward to this Discovery Session event on the 29th! Please come along to explore mental health-related collections held by the Lothian Health Services Archives with members of CAPS Independent Advocacy 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...
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📢Recruitment for METPSY is now open at @hubmetpsych.bsky.social
"The goal of METPSY is to better understand whether issues in metabolism are linked to changes in mental health outcomes." - Dr. Arish Mudra Rakshasa-Loots
Read more 👉https://rebrand.ly/metpsy-opens
"The goal of METPSY is to better understand whether issues in metabolism are linked to changes in mental health outcomes." - Dr. Arish Mudra Rakshasa-Loots
Read more 👉https://rebrand.ly/metpsy-opens
Recruitment opens for METPSY | Mental health platform
Metabolic biomarkers of clinical outcomes in severe mental illness (METPSY) is a new clinical research study at the Metabolic Psychiatry Hub at the University of Edinburgh that is now recruiting.
www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📢Recruitment for METPSY is now open at @hubmetpsych.bsky.social
"The goal of METPSY is to better understand whether issues in metabolism are linked to changes in mental health outcomes." - Dr. Arish Mudra Rakshasa-Loots
Read more 👉https://rebrand.ly/metpsy-opens
"The goal of METPSY is to better understand whether issues in metabolism are linked to changes in mental health outcomes." - Dr. Arish Mudra Rakshasa-Loots
Read more 👉https://rebrand.ly/metpsy-opens
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www.cicsi-uni.org/summer-schoo...
Registrations are still open for this event on how to address the social determinants of mental health. I'm looking forward to it.
Registrations are still open for this event on how to address the social determinants of mental health. I'm looking forward to it.
Summer School 2025 | Centre For Investigating Contemporary Social Ills
How can we effect change so as to end coercion in mental health settings and transform the social context of distress? Explore this at the two-day 3rd CICSI Summer School, taught by a leading experts ...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Registrations are still open for this event on how to address the social determinants of mental health. I'm looking forward to it.
Registrations are still open for this event on how to address the social determinants of mental health. I'm looking forward to it.
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@eurohealthhist.bsky.social WG 3 (Patients) hosting ONE DAY HYBRID WORKSHOP exploring First Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare
Friday 4 April 2025
Starts at 8.30 am CET (Central European Time)
To register online see details lnkd.in/e6TmSsvs #MedHums #HealthHist #Skystorians #History
Friday 4 April 2025
Starts at 8.30 am CET (Central European Time)
To register online see details lnkd.in/e6TmSsvs #MedHums #HealthHist #Skystorians #History
March 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@eurohealthhist.bsky.social WG 3 (Patients) hosting ONE DAY HYBRID WORKSHOP exploring First Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare
Friday 4 April 2025
Starts at 8.30 am CET (Central European Time)
To register online see details lnkd.in/e6TmSsvs #MedHums #HealthHist #Skystorians #History
Friday 4 April 2025
Starts at 8.30 am CET (Central European Time)
To register online see details lnkd.in/e6TmSsvs #MedHums #HealthHist #Skystorians #History
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#MedHums101 Medical humanities puts lived experience at the centre of health research. Check out some of our most read articles on this topic: thepolyphony.org/tag/lived-ex...
lived experience – the polyphony
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April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#MedHums101 Medical humanities puts lived experience at the centre of health research. Check out some of our most read articles on this topic: thepolyphony.org/tag/lived-ex...
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🚀 Delighted to announce the publication of our new #MedHums101 brochure: ‘What is Medical Humanities?’ We hope it sparks your imagination, inspires your curiosity & encourages you to engage in our vibrant interdisciplinary field! tinyurl.com/what-is-med-...
Med Hums 101: What is Medical Humanities?
The Polyphony is delighted to launch the publication of a new brochure – MedHums 101: What is medical humanities?
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March 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚀 Delighted to announce the publication of our new #MedHums101 brochure: ‘What is Medical Humanities?’ We hope it sparks your imagination, inspires your curiosity & encourages you to engage in our vibrant interdisciplinary field! tinyurl.com/what-is-med-...
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Some history of medicine classics being given away for free @wellcomecollection.bsky.social Get them before they're gone (wish I brought a suitcase).
March 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Some history of medicine classics being given away for free @wellcomecollection.bsky.social Get them before they're gone (wish I brought a suitcase).