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Dr Daniel P Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social · 22h

Tomorrow marks the start of my #Dance Residency with Dance City. I'll be exploring #urban #affect and its impact on the Tourettic body, and considering the value of tics in performance spaces for translating experiences of #TouretteSyndrome! 🕺

Here's to making art! 🌟

(Photos from previous work!)

Two dancers lean against each other back-to-back, looking tired. Paper-mache body parts hang around them.

Two dancers are stained with charcoal, hands resting on each other

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 1d

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...

IMH newsletter: October 2025

News & updates from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to @claireturner.bsky.social, who joins us as a Bridging Fellow in the Affective Experience Lab 🎉

Claire is a historian of medicine and the senses. We're excited to work with her!

Find out about Claire's research in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

Introducing Claire Turner: New Bridging Fellow

Read our interview with new Bridging Fellow Claire about her research and interests.

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Katharine Cheston @kacheston.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Action for ME @actionforme.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for supporting this important work through our Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities!

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 2d

@kacheston.bsky.social also shares her reflections on her own experience of living with ME in this @the-polyphony.bsky.social article 👇
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Privilege and Pain: Why the Medical Humanities Matter

Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 2d

IMH researcher @kacheston.bsky.social has helped develop the survey, drawing on insights from lived experience and her research on medically unexplained symptoms. She will also use medical humanities approaches in analysis of the data. Find out more 👉 durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Collaborating with Action for ME to improve understanding - Durham University

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 2d

🎉 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.

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 2d

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/...

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you might be interested in the MA and you want to know more about the field, you can also read our 'What is medical humanities?' brochure from @the-polyphony.bsky.social 👇
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/31/m...

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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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 2d

Our MA is taught by a team of specialists from across the humanities and social sciences, including individuals working in healthcare and policy settings, activists and people with lived experience. Find out more about the course: tinyurl.com/5y7j5ctv

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 2d

Curious about how medicine, culture, and society intersect? Considering a taught PG programme? Join us to explore the MA in Medical Humanities @durham.ac.uk

Choose your online session:
14 October | 11:00–11:30 BST
23 October | 19:00–19:30 BST

Book now! tinyurl.com/ma-medhums

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MA in Medical Humanities booking form

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Action for ME @actionforme.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 5d

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...

A flyer for the 'Between the Lines' event for a research cabaret, featuring the name in theatre lights and the curtains seen on a theatre stage. The descriptive text says: "How do we communicate that which cannot be categorized? Experiences from the margins and/or the marginalized? When medical language excludes, are there other ways to engage with health?

Join us for an evening of live music, poetry, dance, and chaos to explore what it means to live between the lines – with researchers from Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the best local performers. Featuring a specially commissioned response from New Writing North." The location is at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Durham, DH1 5TA and the event takes place from 7pm-10pm on 6th November 2025.

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 6d

Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.

thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...

Privilege and Pain: Why the Medical Humanities Matter

Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.

thepolyphony.org

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 7d

🛞 How might wheeled technologies, such as bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards, and prams, afford different experiences of space, mobility, and performance?

Catch up on the recent Wheely Workshop hosted by our Moving Bodies Lab here! 👇
medhumsplatform.org/a-wheely-wor...

A Wheely Workshop with the Moving Bodies Lab

A one-day workshop hosted by the Moving Bodies Lab explores and engages with an array of wheeled technologies: bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards and prams.

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 12d

Jack Rhys Hancock explores the well-loved novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Simon Stephen’s play adaptation, reflecting its ongoing influence on the representation of Autism.

thepolyphony.org/2025/10/03/b...

Book Review: Exploring the Representation of Neurodiversity in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Jack Rhys Hancock explores the well-loved novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Simon Stephen’s play adaptation, reflecting its ongoing influence on the representation of Auti…

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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.

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 16d

Sathyaraj Venkatesan reviews Maureen Burdock's 2025 comic publication, Sleepless Planet: A Guide to Healing from Insomnia, exploring its role as a graphic narrative in portraying sociocultural dynamics of sleep.
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/29/b...

Book Review: Sleepless Planet

Sathyaraj Venkatesan reviews Maureen Burdock’s 2025 comic publication, Sleepless Planet: A Guide to Healing from Insomnia, exploring its role as a graphic narrative in portraying sociocultural dyna…

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 14d

Shu Yang reports on the latest developments in understanding diseases and disorders in the Chinese context from a gender perspective in medicine. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/01/p...

Polyphony on Women and Dis-ease

Shu Yang reports on the latest developments in understanding diseases and disorders in the Chinese context from a gender perspective in medicine. “Dis-ease: Women and (Dis)order in China,” an inter…

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 15d

Welcome and congratulations to @beccajackson.bsky.social, who joins us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate 🥳 Rebecca was previously a Bridging Fellow, and we are excited to continue working with her.

Read about her upcoming work in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/welcoming-re...

Welcoming Rebecca Jackson: New Postdoctoral Research Associate

Read our interview with Rebecca Jackson, previously a Bridging Fellow and now a PDRA in the Affective Experience and the Measurement Lab.

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 15d

Today we welcome seven postdocs to new roles in the @durhamimh.bsky.social Discovery Research Platform

A double rainbow over the sky over the confluence building

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 16d

Updated my bio to reflect some upcoming changes - this week marks my last week working with @srsrensoc.bsky.social and @hematopolitics.bsky.social. Next week, I'll be starting at @durhamimh.bsky.social, where I'll be continuing my research on the sensecapes of cancer.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 20d

Literary Imagination. #RatsOfConfluence. August 2024.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 20d

Nose to Nose. #RatsOfConfluence. July 2024

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