Angela Woods
@literarti.bsky.social
Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Working on voice-hearing, psychosis, narrative, interdisciplinarity / Starting work on postpartum psychosis
“The report recommended a training course on “core scientific concepts” for politicians that could be provided at the outset of an emergency.”
…or just mandated before they’re allowed anywhere near evidence based decision making?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
…or just mandated before they’re allowed anywhere near evidence based decision making?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“The report recommended a training course on “core scientific concepts” for politicians that could be provided at the outset of an emergency.”
…or just mandated before they’re allowed anywhere near evidence based decision making?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
…or just mandated before they’re allowed anywhere near evidence based decision making?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
“We talk about “funding” as if it’s a favour. It’s not. It’s investment in imagination, in shared experience and in our national story.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“We talk about “funding” as if it’s a favour. It’s not. It’s investment in imagination, in shared experience and in our national story.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
It was worth braving the crowds at the last ever Lumiere
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It was worth braving the crowds at the last ever Lumiere
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💃🎶 Last week's Research Cabaret led by @louisecreechan.bsky.social and @maryrobbo.bsky.social was a resounding success! Catch up on what we got up to as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 👇
tinyurl.com/yntr9362
tinyurl.com/yntr9362
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
💃🎶 Last week's Research Cabaret led by @louisecreechan.bsky.social and @maryrobbo.bsky.social was a resounding success! Catch up on what we got up to as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 👇
tinyurl.com/yntr9362
tinyurl.com/yntr9362
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Tricks and treats with the #RatsOfConfluence
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tricks and treats with the #RatsOfConfluence
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📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social.
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social.
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
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@cforsdick.bsky.social concludes the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses how this project contributes to rethinking the medical humanities in ways that are simultaneously multilingual, transnational and translational.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...
Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities
Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project on historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contributes to rethinking the medical …
thepolyphony.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@cforsdick.bsky.social concludes the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses how this project contributes to rethinking the medical humanities in ways that are simultaneously multilingual, transnational and translational.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...
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The 'schedule send' function in outlook is now taking it upon itself to suggest by default a Monday morning weeks into the future. I shudder to think that this is the algorithm saying something about my average response times.
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The 'schedule send' function in outlook is now taking it upon itself to suggest by default a Monday morning weeks into the future. I shudder to think that this is the algorithm saying something about my average response times.
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Delighted that Rosa Ritunnano passed her viva without corrections! Her PhD on delusions is a marvel of interdisciplinary research. My favourite paper by Rosa so far is the one on Harry, the happiest man in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsky #philpsy #womeninphilosophy
October 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Delighted that Rosa Ritunnano passed her viva without corrections! Her PhD on delusions is a marvel of interdisciplinary research. My favourite paper by Rosa so far is the one on Harry, the happiest man in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsky #philpsy #womeninphilosophy
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The Big Survey is now live!
It has been such a privilege to get to work on this with such a wonderful, inspiring team at @actionforme.bsky.social, including our brilliant Patient and Public Involvement Group, made up of people with lived experience of ME and Long Covid.
It has been such a privilege to get to work on this with such a wonderful, inspiring team at @actionforme.bsky.social, including our brilliant Patient and Public Involvement Group, made up of people with lived experience of ME and Long Covid.
Our 2025 Big Survey is now open! 🎉
For more information, our FAQs, and to take part, head to our web page: www.actionforme.org.uk/research-campaigns/our-research-work/big-survey/
Thank you for supporting our research💙
🤝in collaboration with
@durhamimh.bsky.social @kacheston.bsky.social
For more information, our FAQs, and to take part, head to our web page: www.actionforme.org.uk/research-campaigns/our-research-work/big-survey/
Thank you for supporting our research💙
🤝in collaboration with
@durhamimh.bsky.social @kacheston.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The Big Survey is now live!
It has been such a privilege to get to work on this with such a wonderful, inspiring team at @actionforme.bsky.social, including our brilliant Patient and Public Involvement Group, made up of people with lived experience of ME and Long Covid.
It has been such a privilege to get to work on this with such a wonderful, inspiring team at @actionforme.bsky.social, including our brilliant Patient and Public Involvement Group, made up of people with lived experience of ME and Long Covid.
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🎉 We are delighted to launch this year’s Big Survey in collaboration with @actionforme.bsky.social! If you are in the UK living with ME or Long Covid with ME symptoms, we want to hear from you! tinyurl.com/2s4dbrkx
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2025 Big Survey
Find out how you can contribute to our 2025 Big Survey - a vital research project aiming to illustrate the impact of ME and long Covid.
tinyurl.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🎉 We are delighted to launch this year’s Big Survey in collaboration with @actionforme.bsky.social! If you are in the UK living with ME or Long Covid with ME symptoms, we want to hear from you! tinyurl.com/2s4dbrkx
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Join us on 6th November for our annual Research Cabaret! An evening of live music 🎶 poetry 💬 dance 🕺💃 and chaos 🎉 exploring what it means to live between the lines. Featuring Durham IMH researchers and local performers!
Reserve your FREE ticket here 🎟️👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...
Reserve your FREE ticket here 🎟️👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...
October 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Join us on 6th November for our annual Research Cabaret! An evening of live music 🎶 poetry 💬 dance 🕺💃 and chaos 🎉 exploring what it means to live between the lines. Featuring Durham IMH researchers and local performers!
Reserve your FREE ticket here 🎟️👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...
Reserve your FREE ticket here 🎟️👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...
It’s been that kind of a weekend
October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It’s been that kind of a weekend
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Welcome to @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social, who joins us as a Honorary Fellow in the Visual & Material Lab 🥳
We're looking forward to working with you!
medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-t...
We're looking forward to working with you!
medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to Tamarin Norwood: New Honorary Fellow in the Visual & Material Lab
Welcome to Tamarin Norwood, who joins us as an Honorary Fellow in the Visual & Material Lab.
medhumsplatform.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Welcome to @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social, who joins us as a Honorary Fellow in the Visual & Material Lab 🥳
We're looking forward to working with you!
medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-t...
We're looking forward to working with you!
medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-t...
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Ten years on from publication - this big lad hits 1000 citations. Congrats @cfernyhough.bsky.social!
Probably the longest paper we will ever write. If you get to the end you get a badge and a certificate. And hopefully you will learn something about inner speech.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26011789/
Probably the longest paper we will ever write. If you get to the end you get a badge and a certificate. And hopefully you will learn something about inner speech.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26011789/
Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology - PubMed
Inner speech-also known as covert speech or verbal thinking-has been implicated in theories of cognitive development, speech monitoring, executive function, and psychopathology. Despite a growing body...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ten years on from publication - this big lad hits 1000 citations. Congrats @cfernyhough.bsky.social!
Probably the longest paper we will ever write. If you get to the end you get a badge and a certificate. And hopefully you will learn something about inner speech.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26011789/
Probably the longest paper we will ever write. If you get to the end you get a badge and a certificate. And hopefully you will learn something about inner speech.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26011789/
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Delighted to see this latest book in the Series now in print, and with a great endorsement from @literarti.bsky.social: 'As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.'
NEW in our Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine series (edited by @drgavinmiller.bsky.social): Chloe R. Green examines how women’s experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness. Learn more at: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-writing...
Writing Contested Illness
Writing Contested Illness
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Delighted to see this latest book in the Series now in print, and with a great endorsement from @literarti.bsky.social: 'As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.'
Today we welcome seven postdocs to new roles in the @durhamimh.bsky.social Discovery Research Platform
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Today we welcome seven postdocs to new roles in the @durhamimh.bsky.social Discovery Research Platform
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Putting on my infrastructure studies hat to boost this just-published book: The Humanities Laboratory: From Design to Archaeology, edited by Aleksandra Kil-Matlak, Jacek Małczyński, & Dorota Wolska. www.peterlang.com/document/161...
September 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Putting on my infrastructure studies hat to boost this just-published book: The Humanities Laboratory: From Design to Archaeology, edited by Aleksandra Kil-Matlak, Jacek Małczyński, & Dorota Wolska. www.peterlang.com/document/161...
Tuning in to the final event of the discontinued @theturing.bsky.social Humanities & Data Science Interest Group and @melissaterras.bsky.social is absolutely smashing it. Power & politics cannot be purged from this conversation digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...
Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Tuning in to the final event of the discontinued @theturing.bsky.social Humanities & Data Science Interest Group and @melissaterras.bsky.social is absolutely smashing it. Power & politics cannot be purged from this conversation digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...
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We are very pleased to welcome @harrietbarratt.bsky.social 🎉
Harriet joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Visual & Material Lab.
Read about Harriet and her work in this interview: 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Harriet joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Visual & Material Lab.
Read about Harriet and her work in this interview: 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Introducing Harriet Barratt: New PDRA in the Visual & Material Lab
Discover more about new Postdoctoral Research Associate Harriet Barratt in our interview about her research and interests.
medhumsplatform.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We are very pleased to welcome @harrietbarratt.bsky.social 🎉
Harriet joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Visual & Material Lab.
Read about Harriet and her work in this interview: 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Harriet joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Visual & Material Lab.
Read about Harriet and her work in this interview: 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
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We are pleased to welcome Xiao Ge, joining our Discovery Research Platform as a Bridging Fellow in the Narrative Practices Lab and @languagesdurham.bsky.social 🤩
Read more about Xiao's work on reframing postpartum well-being in this interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Read more about Xiao's work on reframing postpartum well-being in this interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Introducing Xiao Ge: New Bridging Fellow in the Narrative Practices Lab
Discover more about New Bridging Fellow Xiao Ge in our interview about her research and interests.
medhumsplatform.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We are pleased to welcome Xiao Ge, joining our Discovery Research Platform as a Bridging Fellow in the Narrative Practices Lab and @languagesdurham.bsky.social 🤩
Read more about Xiao's work on reframing postpartum well-being in this interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Read more about Xiao's work on reframing postpartum well-being in this interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
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Excited to welcome @danielpjones.bsky.social, who joins us as a Bridging Fellow in the Moving Bodies Lab and @dusportexsci.bsky.social.
Find out more about Daniel's work on embodied experiences of Tourette Syndrome & the development of creative, inclusive research methods 🤩
Find out more about Daniel's work on embodied experiences of Tourette Syndrome & the development of creative, inclusive research methods 🤩
Introducing Daniel P. Jones: New Bridging Fellow in the Moving Bodies Lab
Find out more about new Bridging Fellow Daniel in our interview exploring his research and interests.
medhumsplatform.org
September 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Excited to welcome @danielpjones.bsky.social, who joins us as a Bridging Fellow in the Moving Bodies Lab and @dusportexsci.bsky.social.
Find out more about Daniel's work on embodied experiences of Tourette Syndrome & the development of creative, inclusive research methods 🤩
Find out more about Daniel's work on embodied experiences of Tourette Syndrome & the development of creative, inclusive research methods 🤩
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A warm welcome to Michelle Reeve, who joins our Discovery Research Platform as the Digital and Communications Officer!
We're looking forward to working with you, Michelle!
medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-m...
We're looking forward to working with you, Michelle!
medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-m...
Welcome to Michelle Reeve
A warm welcome to Michelle Reeve, who joins the Discovery Research Platform in a maternity cover role as our Digital and Communications Officer.
medhumsplatform.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A warm welcome to Michelle Reeve, who joins our Discovery Research Platform as the Digital and Communications Officer!
We're looking forward to working with you, Michelle!
medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-m...
We're looking forward to working with you, Michelle!
medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-m...