Meet our people
Our team includes researchers, people with lived experience, health, creative, and voluntary and community sector professionals Â
Directors
Angela Woods
Director
Professor
Department of English
Ben Alderson-Day
Co-Director
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
The Labs
The Narrative Practices Lab
Brett Smith
Lab Co-Lead
Professor
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Veronica Heney
Lab Co-Lead
Associate Professor
Sociology
Laura Mazzoli Smith
Lab Co-Lead (2023–25)
IMH Honorary Fellow
Marta Cenedese
UKRI Fellow
Institute for Medical Humanities
Victoria (Pip) Hardy
Bridging Fellow
Institute for Medical Humanities
Nicola Simonetti
Bridging Fellow
English Studies
Teti Dragas
Assistant Professor
Durham Centre for Academic Development
Rong Huang
Visiting Fellow
Centre for Narrative Medicine, Peking University Health Science Centre
Tony Sumner
Curatorial Fellow
Institute for Medical Humanities
Xiao Ge
Bridging Fellow
Institute for Medical Humanities
Claire Jeantils
Bridging Fellow
Institute for Medical Humanities
Arya Thampuran
Assistant Professor
Black Health and the Humanities
The Moving Bodies Lab
Cassandra Phoenix
Lab Lead
Professor
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Christina Bosbach
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Anthropology
Emily Davis
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Megan Girdwood
Lecturer in English Literature, 1880-1940
University of Edinburgh
Daniel P. Jones
Bridging Fellow
Institute for Medical Humanities
Kate Marks
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Sport and Exercise Sciences
David L. Martin
Lecturer in Visual and International Politics
Goldsmith’s University
Tessa Pollard
Professor
Anthropology
Emily Tupper
Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities
Sport and Exercise Sciences
The Measurement Lab
Coreen McGuire
Lab Co-Lead
Assistant Professor in 20th Century British History
History
Louise Creechan
Lab Co-Lead
Lecturer in Literary Medical Humanities English Studies
Rebecca Jackson
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Philosophy
Maximilian Gregor Hepach
Assistant Professor
Geography
Durham University
The Visual and Material Lab
Fiona Johnstone
Lab Lead
Assistant Professor in Visual & Material Studies
English Studies
Tamarin Norwood
Honorary Fellow
Institute for Medical Humanities
Harriet Barratt
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Visual Medical Humanities
Institute for Medical Humanities
Georgia Poplett
Research Assistant and Events Manager
Institute for Medical Humanities
Sofie Layton
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Visual Medical Humanities
Institute for Medical Humanities
The Narrative and Cognition Lab
Marco Bernini
Lab Lead
Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies
English Studies
The Affective Experience Lab
Fraser Riddell
Lab Lead
Associate Professor in Literary Medical Humanities
English Studies
Claire Turner
Bridging Fellow
History
Corinne Saunders
Lab Lead
Professor
English Studies
Rebecca Jackson
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Philosophy
The Sites
The WellSpring
Evelyn Tehrani
Site Lead
Institute for Medical Humanities
Alisdair Cameron
Co-Director at ReCoCo
ReCoCo
Georgia Corbett
WellSpring Coordinator
ReCoCo
Angela Glascott
Co-Director & Co-Founder of ReCoCo
ReCoCo
Veenu Gupta
Assistant Professor in Lived Experience
Psychology
The Practice
Jesse Proudfoot
Site Lead
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Jonny Coates
GP and Partner at St Anthony's Health Centre
Michael Vine
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sociology
The Festival
Ben Alderson-Day
Site Lead
Associate Professor
Psychology
Nicholas Barley
Professor in Practice
Institute for Medical Humanities
Georgia Punton
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Psychology of the Imagination
The Connective Tissue
Unit Leads
Evelyn Tehrani
Senior Research & Engagement Manager
Institute for Medical Humanities
Mary Robson
Senior Creative Facilitation Manager
Institute for Medical Humanities
Victoria Patton
Senior Digital Development & Communications Manager
Institute for Medical Humanities
Carolyn Blake
Operations Manager
Institute for Medical Humanities
Akiko Hart
Professor in Practice
Institute for Medical Humanities
Connective Tissue Team
Jen Barber
General Administrator
Institute for Medical Humanities
Becca Doggwiler
Digital and Communications Officer
Institute for Medical Humanities
Arya Ray
Assistant Manager (Events and Fellowship)
Institute for Medical Humanities
Darren Scantlebury-Watson
Finance Coordinator
Institute for Medical Humanities
Haf Serajee
Events and Fellows Coordinator
Institute for Medical Humanities
Alona Snisarenko
General Administrator
Institute for Medical Humanities
Johanna Thren
Creative Facilitation Specialist
Institute for Medical Humanities
Network leads
Catherine Bortolon
Co-Lead
Early Career Hallucinations Research Network (ECHR)
Fiona Johnstone
Lead
Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR)
Emma Palmer-Cooper
Co-Lead
Early Career Hallucinations Research Network (ECHR)
Adam Powell
Lead
Religion, Health and Humanities Researchers (RHHR)
Arya Thampuran
Lead
Black Health and the Humanities Network (BHH)
In Practice Fellows
Judith Holliday
2025-26 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
Phil Samba
2025-26 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
Shayla Sue Schlossenberg
2025-26 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
Estelle Verdi
2025-26 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
Fouziya Asim
2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
David McQuillan
2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
Kate Quinn
2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
Sam Slatcher
2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
Maddie Rose-Carbone
2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
Sophie-Jo Peel
2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellow
The International Advisory Board
Hannah Bradby
Uppsala University
Des Fitzgerald
University College Cork
Akiko Hart
Professor in Practice
Institute for Medical Humanities
Sarah Hughes
Mind
Ericka Johnson
Linköping University
Wajid Khan
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Laurie McGuire
University of Oxford
Jonathan Metzl
Vanderbilt University
Carla Tsampiras
University of Cape Town
The Strategic Engagement Group
Wajid Khan
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Fran Moreland
VONNE
Research Partnerships Coordinator
David Woodhead
Centre for Mental Health
Lisa Taylor
VONNE
Jenny Young
Blue Cabin