Victoria Patton
@vpatton.bsky.social
Digital Development & Communications at durhamimh.bsky.social
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2025 may be winding down but our events calendar is not! 📆
From reading groups to seminars, online talks to in-person conversations, there is plenty going on at the IMH throughout the rest of November and December.
Read our latest newsletter to find out more 👇
mailchi.mp/e9a1d07e9700...
From reading groups to seminars, online talks to in-person conversations, there is plenty going on at the IMH throughout the rest of November and December.
Read our latest newsletter to find out more 👇
mailchi.mp/e9a1d07e9700...
IMH Newsletter November 2025 (Events)
Upcoming events from the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.
mailchi.mp
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
2025 may be winding down but our events calendar is not! 📆
From reading groups to seminars, online talks to in-person conversations, there is plenty going on at the IMH throughout the rest of November and December.
Read our latest newsletter to find out more 👇
mailchi.mp/e9a1d07e9700...
From reading groups to seminars, online talks to in-person conversations, there is plenty going on at the IMH throughout the rest of November and December.
Read our latest newsletter to find out more 👇
mailchi.mp/e9a1d07e9700...
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@katharinemurphy.bsky.social introduces the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/20/h...
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Historical Narratives of Illness in the Multilingual Medical Humanities
Katharine Murphy introduces the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
@katharinemurphy.bsky.social introduces the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/20/h...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/20/h...
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"Rather than asking why specific communities are ‘hard to reach’, perhaps the real question is – have they simply been easier to ignore?"
Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses 'Unboxing', a creative elicitation tool she developed for her doctoral study.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/17/e...
Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses 'Unboxing', a creative elicitation tool she developed for her doctoral study.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/17/e...
A Creative Approach to Engaging Black Caribbean Women in Research
Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses ‘Unboxing’, a methodology taking reproductive health research to Black Caribbean women.
thepolyphony.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Rather than asking why specific communities are ‘hard to reach’, perhaps the real question is – have they simply been easier to ignore?"
Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses 'Unboxing', a creative elicitation tool she developed for her doctoral study.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/17/e...
Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses 'Unboxing', a creative elicitation tool she developed for her doctoral study.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/17/e...
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New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
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There's plenty of news in our Discovery Research Platform's October e-bulletin - from new research themes and publications, to reflections on A Wheely Workshop, Narrative Practice and Curating Cultural Heritage events 📖
Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/300a7e52f6b3...
Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/300a7e52f6b3...
IMH newsletter: October 2025
News & updates from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.
mailchi.mp
October 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
There's plenty of news in our Discovery Research Platform's October e-bulletin - from new research themes and publications, to reflections on A Wheely Workshop, Narrative Practice and Curating Cultural Heritage events 📖
Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/300a7e52f6b3...
Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/300a7e52f6b3...
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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...
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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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ME and ME-like symptoms affect approximately 1.35 million people in the UK.
Find out how @kacheston.bsky.social, from our Department of Sociology and @durhamimh.bsky.social, is collaborating with @actionforme.bsky.social to understand the impact of this condition: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Find out how @kacheston.bsky.social, from our Department of Sociology and @durhamimh.bsky.social, is collaborating with @actionforme.bsky.social to understand the impact of this condition: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
ME and ME-like symptoms affect approximately 1.35 million people in the UK.
Find out how @kacheston.bsky.social, from our Department of Sociology and @durhamimh.bsky.social, is collaborating with @actionforme.bsky.social to understand the impact of this condition: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Find out how @kacheston.bsky.social, from our Department of Sociology and @durhamimh.bsky.social, is collaborating with @actionforme.bsky.social to understand the impact of this condition: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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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.
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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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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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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...
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#Readerbank is back at @edbookfest.bsky.social! Excited to support our fantastic team, led by @aldersonday.bsky.social, run an invitation-only event for publishers, agents & writers. Professor in Practice @nickbarley.bsky.social begins with the big question: what happens in our minds when we read?
August 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#Readerbank is back at @edbookfest.bsky.social! Excited to support our fantastic team, led by @aldersonday.bsky.social, run an invitation-only event for publishers, agents & writers. Professor in Practice @nickbarley.bsky.social begins with the big question: what happens in our minds when we read?
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New from @durhamimh.bsky.social - the first @thereaderbank.bsky.social paper! We identify 4 factors in a new scale of reading imagery, the ReaderBank Imagination Quiz.
Well done 1st author @georgiapunton.bsky.social & thanks to our partners at @edbookfest.bsky.social
Cc @durhampsych.bsky.social
Well done 1st author @georgiapunton.bsky.social & thanks to our partners at @edbookfest.bsky.social
Cc @durhampsych.bsky.social
The Forces of the Imagination: Exploring dimensions of mental imagery using the ReaderBank Imagination Quiz (RBIQ): https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/47hq9_v1
August 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
New from @durhamimh.bsky.social - the first @thereaderbank.bsky.social paper! We identify 4 factors in a new scale of reading imagery, the ReaderBank Imagination Quiz.
Well done 1st author @georgiapunton.bsky.social & thanks to our partners at @edbookfest.bsky.social
Cc @durhampsych.bsky.social
Well done 1st author @georgiapunton.bsky.social & thanks to our partners at @edbookfest.bsky.social
Cc @durhampsych.bsky.social
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🔥Hot off the press! New pre-print with the v. first findings from our study of reading, the imagination and mental health in collab with @edbookfest.bsky.social
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🔥Hot off the press! New pre-print with the v. first findings from our study of reading, the imagination and mental health in collab with @edbookfest.bsky.social
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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✨ Excitement! Our #ReaderBank team are heading back to @edbookfest.bsky.social next week to explore the links between reading, imagination and mental health. 📖 💡🧠
Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/readerbank-a...
Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/readerbank-a...
Another page turns and the detectives of the imagination are on their way back to the Edinburgh International Book Festival this August to find out more about words we read, characters we meet, and worlds we step into! Read on to find out more.
August 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
✨ Excitement! Our #ReaderBank team are heading back to @edbookfest.bsky.social next week to explore the links between reading, imagination and mental health. 📖 💡🧠
Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/readerbank-a...
Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/readerbank-a...
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How is subjective experience used in #mentalhealth research? We’re looking for researchers (especially neuroscientists, geneticists, big data scientists, and biomedical researchers, and non-UK researchers) to take part in a short survey, as part of the SUNRISE study.
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/774USE/
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/774USE/
July 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
How is subjective experience used in #mentalhealth research? We’re looking for researchers (especially neuroscientists, geneticists, big data scientists, and biomedical researchers, and non-UK researchers) to take part in a short survey, as part of the SUNRISE study.
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/774USE/
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/774USE/
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Joy Chen and Nkili Cooper reflect on a seminar held at Rice University’s Medical Humanities Research Institute on the topic of medical technologies and healthcare inequities.
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The Sawyer Seminar Research Symposium “Reimagining Technologies of Care: Racial Health Equity and Data Justice”
Joy Chen and Nkili Cooper reflect on a seminar held at Rice University’s Medical Humanities Research Institute on the topic of medical technologies and healthcare inequities.
thepolyphony.org
July 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Joy Chen and Nkili Cooper reflect on a seminar held at Rice University’s Medical Humanities Research Institute on the topic of medical technologies and healthcare inequities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/11/t...
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/11/t...
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From our Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference and a visit from our international Advisory Board to events at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, there’s plenty of news from our Discovery Research Platform in the July e-bulletin!
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IMH newsletter: July 2025
News & updates from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.
mailchi.mp
July 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
From our Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference and a visit from our international Advisory Board to events at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, there’s plenty of news from our Discovery Research Platform in the July e-bulletin!
mailchi.mp/9a17f6f10f4f...
mailchi.mp/9a17f6f10f4f...
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🎬 And it's a wrap! Day 3 of our Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference ends with Daniel Oliver's keynote 'Performance Dork' and closing remarks from our Fellows. Huge thanks to everyone, especially our fab events co-ordinators @aryaray.bsky.social & Haf Serajee.
June 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🎬 And it's a wrap! Day 3 of our Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference ends with Daniel Oliver's keynote 'Performance Dork' and closing remarks from our Fellows. Huge thanks to everyone, especially our fab events co-ordinators @aryaray.bsky.social & Haf Serajee.
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Don't miss our Platform Co-director @aldersonday.bsky.social in conversation with Vincent Deary in Waterstones in Newcastle next week (Wed, 28 May, 2pm). Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
An Evening with Ben Alderson-Day and Vincent Deary in conversation | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Ben Alderson-Day and Vincent Deary in conversation today.
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May 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Don't miss our Platform Co-director @aldersonday.bsky.social in conversation with Vincent Deary in Waterstones in Newcastle next week (Wed, 28 May, 2pm). Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION:
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
April 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION:
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
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📣 Seminar alert!
How can non-pharmacological interventions improve mental health? On 16th May, join us as Simon Hackett examines studies on creative health and arts psychotherapy interventions.
Don't hesitate to register here 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-pharma...
How can non-pharmacological interventions improve mental health? On 16th May, join us as Simon Hackett examines studies on creative health and arts psychotherapy interventions.
Don't hesitate to register here 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-pharma...
Non-pharmacological interventions & creative mental health therapies
A hybrid seminar by Dr Simon Hackett on application of creative therapies to non-pharmacological interventions for mental health improvement
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📣 Seminar alert!
How can non-pharmacological interventions improve mental health? On 16th May, join us as Simon Hackett examines studies on creative health and arts psychotherapy interventions.
Don't hesitate to register here 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-pharma...
How can non-pharmacological interventions improve mental health? On 16th May, join us as Simon Hackett examines studies on creative health and arts psychotherapy interventions.
Don't hesitate to register here 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-pharma...
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Congratulations to @literarti.bsky.social from our @durhamimh.bsky.social for being chosen for an honorary doctorate from @liu.se. Hugely deserved!
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tinyurl.com/2zuhzdre
May 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Congratulations to @literarti.bsky.social from our @durhamimh.bsky.social for being chosen for an honorary doctorate from @liu.se. Hugely deserved!
tinyurl.com/2zuhzdre
tinyurl.com/2zuhzdre
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10 days left to apply for a Bridging Fellowship in Medical Humanities! Find out more about all the job opportunities in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities here medhumsplatform.org/work-with-us/
April 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
10 days left to apply for a Bridging Fellowship in Medical Humanities! Find out more about all the job opportunities in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities here medhumsplatform.org/work-with-us/