by The Narrative Practices Lab | Oct 18, 2024 | Events recap, Narrative Practices, Visual & Material
On 18th September 2024 the “Gender and Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image” Symposium was hosted at Durham University. The event brought together a diverse group of international, interdisciplinary scholars to discuss multiple aspects of the moving image,... 
by The Narrative Practices Lab | Oct 10, 2024 | Announcements, Narrative Practices
The Narrative Practices Lab co-lead Veronica Heney has contributed to a new Lancet Commission calling for urgent action on self-harm. Self-harm remains neglected world-wide, with at least 14 million episodes yearly. A new report published today in the Lancet... 
by The Measurement Lab | Sep 30, 2024 | Measurement, Narrative & Cognition, Narrative Practices, Welcome to new staff
Today we welcome Nick Simonetti, who joins The Platform as a 2024-25 Bridging Fellow. Nick’s PhD, entitled ‘Towards a Neuroinclusive Theory of the Contemporary: Representing the Temporality and Aesthetis of the Contemporary in Ten Novels of Neurodivergence’ was... 
by The Narrative Practices Lab | Aug 16, 2024 | Narrative Practices, Newsletter
Stories about health and illness are everywhere – in books and blogs and across social media, in the conversations we have with doctors, in the ways we think about ourselves and those we love. Storytelling is often celebrated as a way of challenging stigma or raising... 
by The Narrative Practices Lab | Aug 2, 2024 | Narrative Practices, Publications
Photo by Marcos Paixão on Unsplash. The Institute for Medical Humanities today published Engagement, experience and power: Working with an advisory group, the latest Project Short in its Working Knowledge collection. Written by Veronica Heney (Co-Lead... by The Visual and Material Lab | Jun 29, 2024 | Events, Narrative Practices, Visual & Material
Join us on Wednesday 18th September for an exciting one-day symposium celebrating the latest work on moving images in the Medical Humanities. Hosted jointly by Durham University’s Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Linköping University’s Division...