Publications

Journal Articles

Alderson-Day, B., Moseley, P., Woods, A., Dodgson, G., Common, S. and Fernyhough, C. (2025) ‘Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis’, Schizophrenia, 11(1), Article 143.

Alderson-Day, B. and Pearson, A. (2023). ‘What can neurodiversity tell us about inner speech, and vice versa? A theoretical perspective’, Cortex, 168, pp. 193–202. 

Andrews, G., Griffin, M. and Phoenix, C. (2024) ‘Speed as an expression and texture of space: Theory at play in a movement activity’, Environment and Planning F, 3(3), pp. 134–161. 

Aylward, A. and McGuire, C. (2025) ‘Defective data: statistics, disability, and eugenic sterilisation in interwar Britain’, Medical History, pp. 1–16. 

Biernoff, S. and Johnstone, F. (2024) ‘What can art history offer medical humanities?’, Medical Humanities, 50(3), pp. 529–538. 

Botha, M., Chapman, R., Onaiwu, M., Kapp, S., Ashley, A. and Walker, N. (2024) ‘The neurodiversity concept was developed collectively: An overdue correction on the origins of neurodiversity theory’, Autism, 28(6). 

Chapman, R. (2023) ‘A Critique of Critical Psychiatry’, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 30(2), pp. 103–119. 

Cheston, K., Cenedese, M.-L. and Woods, A. (2025) ‘The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19’, Journal of Medical Humanities, 46(1), pp. 3–20.

Cioroboiu, N., Whittingham, K., Dodgson, G., Fernyhough, C. and Alderson-Day, B. (2025) ‘Auditory verbal hallucinations: The ins and outs of subtypes’, Psychiatry Research, 352, 116696. 

Darling, F., Mazzoli Smith, L., Robson, M., Tinner, L., Murphy, M., Pallan, M., Tanner, J., Hatch, L., Jago, R. and Summerbell, C. (2025) ‘Reflections of a Research Team on Using Creative Facilitation for the First Time: Illuminating the Lived Experience of the School Holidays for Children and Families Living in Poverty Across England’, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24, pp. 1-14.

Grandolfo, M. and Simonetti, N. (2025) ‘Tagging Care: “Disability” in Good Omens and Stranger Things “Hurt/Comfort” Fan Fictions’, Transformative Works and Cultures [Preprint]. 

Gupta, V. (2025) ‘The Diagnostic Overshadowing Effect of the Expert by Experience with Psychosis’, Schizophrenia Bulletin, pp. 1-2. 

Heney, V. (2025) ‘Creating Care for People Who Self-Harm Through Transformation of Aesthetic Objects’, Journal of Medical Humanities, pp. 1–14. 

Jackson, R.L. (2023) ‘How the cervix killed the cervimeter: A nonstandard story of successful measurement’, Measurement, 222, pp. 1-11. 

Jackson, R.L. (2025) ‘Constructing Centimeters: Emanuel Friedman’s Cervimeter and the Dilatation-Time Curve’, Bulletin of the history of medicine, 99(1), pp. 51–93.  

Jackson, R.L. (2025) ‘The Apgar score and race: why healthy babies are supposed to be “pink”’, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 47(4), p. 45. 

Jeantils, C. (2025) ‘Pour une épileptologie narrative : fondements théoriques et perspectives pour la pratique médicale’, Pratique Neurologique Fmc, 16(2).  

Johnstone, F. (2024) ‘Picture an epidemic: contemporary culture and HIV’, The Lancet, 403(10429), pp. 802–803.

Marquand, A., Bučková, B., Cattaranusi, G., Flaaten, C., Busch, C., Lemvigh, C., Gupta, V., Fraza, C., Westlye, L., Andreassen, O., Hlinka, J., Ebdrup, B., Shiers, D., Ueland, T., Dazzan, P. (2025) ‘Learning latent profiles via cognitive growth charting in psychosis: design and rationale for the PRECOGNITION project’, Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 6(1), sgaf007

McGuire, C. (2024) ‘Relational Disability and Invisible Illness in Industrial Britain’, Osiris, 39, pp. 169–184. 

McGuire, C. (2024) ‘What is disability history the history of?’, History Compass, 22(6). 

McGuire, C. (2024) ‘Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain’s Responaut Communities’, Technology and Culture, 65(1), pp. 89-116. 

McGuire, C. and Martin, J.D. (2023) ‘Film Review Revenge of the Nerds’, Physics in Perspective, 25(3), pp. 169–172.

McGuire, C. and Nikiforova, N. (2023) ‘Mythologies: The Spirit of Technology in its Cultural Context | Technology and Language’, Technology and Language, 4(2), pp. 1–6. 

Moran, P., Chandler, A., Dudgeon, P., Kirtley, O., Knipe, D., Heney, V., et al. (2024) ‘The Lancet Commission on self-harm’, Lancet (London, England), 404(10461), pp. 1445–1492

Morrin, H., Nicholls, L., Levin, M., Yiend, J., Iyengar, U., DelGuidice, F., Bhattacharyya, S., MacCabe, J., Tognin, S., Twumasi, R., Alderson-Day, B. and Pollak, T (2025). ‘Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)’ [Preprint]. 

Phoenix, C. and Chamberlain, K. (2025) ‘Arts-based research: Attending to methods’, Methods in Psychology (Online), 12:100179. 

Proudfoot, J. (2023) ‘The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction’, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 47(4), pp. 961–981. 

Punton, G., Bernini, M., Foxwell, J., Barley, N., Alderson-Day, B., (2025) ‘The Forces of the Imagination: Exploring dimensions of mental imagery using the ReaderBank Imagination Quiz (RBIQ)’, [Preprint]. 

Riddell, F. (2024) ‘Reflection: Affect and Interdisciplinarity – Got Rhythm?’, FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts, 35(1).  

Simonetti, N. and Grandolfo, M. (2025) ‘Agile Authorship: Exploring Collaborative Dementia Memoirs through Fanfiction Practices’, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 21(1). 

Sivaramakrishnan, H., Phoenix, C., Quested, E., Thogersen-Ntoumani, C., Gucciardi, D., Cheval, B. and Ntoumanis, N. (2023) ‘“More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults’, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 15(6), pp. 772–788. 

Smith, B., Roderick, M., Hockin-Boyers, H., Monforte, J., Williams, T., Jachyra, P., Dodd-Reynolds, C. and Phoenix, C. (2025) ‘25 years of qualitative research in sport and exercise Psychology: How did it go? And what now?’, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 81, p. 102958.

Swyer, A., Woods, A., Ellison, A. and Alderson-Day, B. (2024) ‘“Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum.’ Psychosis, pp. 1–11. 

Ward, S., Dragas, T., Mazzoli Smith, L., Ross, K. and Miao, Z. (2024) ‘Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care’, Teaching in Higher Education, 30(5).  

Edited Collections and Journal Special Issues 

Bergenmar, J., Creechan, L. and Stenning, A. (2025) (eds.). Critical Neurodiversity Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing. 

Broadbent, A. and Venkatapuram, S. (2025) (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health. Routledge. 

Byers, A. and Powell, A. (2025) (eds.). Religion, Theology, and Stranger Things. Bloomsbury Publishing. 

Franklin, S., Piercy, H., Thampuran, A. and White, R. (2023) (eds.). Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future. Routledge.

Phoenix, C. and Chamberlain, K. (2025) Arts-based research: Attending to methods. Methods in Psychology (12) Special Issue on ‘Arts-Based Methods in Psychology’, 100179

Riddell, F., Bratton, F. and Megan, G. (2024) (eds.). Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies. Palgrave Macmillan

Saunders, C. and Watt, D. (2023) (eds) Women and Medieval Literary Culture from the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge University Press.

Woolley, D., Johnstone, F., Sampson, E. and Chambers, P. (2024) (eds.). Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 

Contributions to Edited Collections 

Bernini, M. (2025) ‘Interdisciplinary Mind Modeling: Exploratory Cycles in Cognitive Science, Narrative Theory, and Fictional Creativity’, in J. Alber, and R. Schneider (eds) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies. Routledge. 

Creechan, L. (2025) ‘The Lifted Veil : neurodivergence, narrative and scholarship’, in J. Bergenmar, L. Creechan, and Stenning, A (eds) Critical Neurodiversity Studies. Bloomsbury Academic.  

Heney, V., Ashley, Higgins, E., Salisbury, N. and Hartley, S. (2024) ‘Engagement, experience and power: Working with an advisory group‘ in Fernyhough, C., Woods, A., Patton, V., (eds) Working Knowledge. Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.  

Kurtz, R. and Mazzoli-Smith, L. (2024) ‘A composite approach to movement analysis for embodied methodology’, in H. Kara, D. Mannay, and A. Roy (eds) The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis. Policy Press, pp. 113–128.  

McGuire, C. (2025) ‘Die Kategorisierung von Schwerhörigkeit durch Telefonie im Großbritannien der Zwischenkriegszeit’, in C. Borbach, T. Kaerlein, R. Stock, and S. Wirth (eds) Akustische Interfaces. 

Proudfoot, J. (2024) ‘Landscapes of Trauma and Mental Health’, in C. Boyd et al. (eds) Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Routledge.  

Saunders, C. (2025) ‘Body and Mind, Affect and Cognition. Articulating Vision in The Revelations of Divine Love of Julian of Norwich and The Book of Margery Kempe’, in R. Critten, J. Vuille (eds) The Power of Words in Late Medieval Devotional and Mystical Writing: Essays in Honour of Denis Renevey. Brepols, pp. 277–295.

Saunders, C. (2023) ”A Lowde Voys Clepyng’: Voice-Hearing, Revelation and Imagination’, in Kern-Stähler, A. and Robertson, E. (eds) Literature and the Senses. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. Oxford University Press.

Thampuran, A. (2025) ‘Re-embodying difference: Race, space and neurodiverse realities’, in J. Bergenmar, L. Creechan, and Stenning, A (eds) Critical Neurodiversity Studies. Bloomsbury Academic. 

Thampuran, A. (2023) ‘‘A Skin of One’s Own’: Decolonising Traumatic Testimony and the Poetics of Wholeness’, in S. Franklin, H. Piercy, A. Thampuran, and R. White (eds) Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future. Routledge. 

Woods, A. and Rákóczi, J. (2024) ‘Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities’, in A. Elsner, M. Pietrzak-Franger (eds) Literature and Medicine. Cambridge University Press. 

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Other outputs

Blog Posts 

Arlie, J., Asker, C., Griffin, M., Heidorn, N., Phoenix, C., Thampuran, A., Tupper, E. (2025) ‘Slowing, Stillness and Sedentarism’ The Polyphony, 1 August

Heney, V. (2024) ‘Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies’, Cost Of Living, 4 December. 

Heney, V. (2025) ‘Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm’, Cost Of Living, 4 June.

Mackay, T., Pinfold, V., Faulkner, A.,Kamvar, R., Gupta, V., Jarvis, A., Woods, A and Alderson-Day, B (2025) ‘Searching, unpacking and naming research into subjective experiences: the SUNRISE study. A new dawn for subjective experiences research.’, The Mental Elf, 8 July

Phoenix, C. and de Boer, M. (2024) ‘Reframing Menopause beyond Biomedicine’, The Polyphony, 12 March. 

Phoenix, C. and Olive, R. (2024) ‘Moving Bodies Across Medical Humanities and Sport and Exercise Sciences’, The Polyphony, 11 March. 

Thampuran, A. (2024) ‘Mapping the Moving Body: Diasporic and Disciplinary Crossings’, The Polyphony, 20 March.  

Tupper, E. (2024) ‘Performing Dialogues between Sport and Exercise Sciences and Medical Humanities’, The Polyphony, 19 March.

Brochures 

Institute for Medical Humanities (2023) The Institute for Medical Humanities: 2018-2023.   

The Polyphony (2025) ‘Med Hums 101: What is Medical Humanities?’, The Polyphony, 31 March.

The Moving Bodies Lab (2025) ‘Changing Gears: Findings from a North-East participatory research project‘. 

Podcasts 

Gupta, V (2024) ‘The Evolution of Lived Experience Roles in Mental Health Research’. (The Mental Elf)

Davis, E. (2025) ‘Dance for MS‘. (Overcoming MS Podcast). 

McGuire, C. (2024) ‘Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period’. (New Books in Disability Studies). 

Phoenix, C. (2023) ‘What’s stopping us from exercising in older age?’ (Inside Health)

Thampuran, A. (2024) ‘Black Joy As Resistance’. (Black Health and the Humanities collaboration with Suriving Society podcast)

Thampuran, A. (2024) ‘Black Joy is an Urgent Social and Political Issue’. (Black Health and the Humanities collaboration with Suriving Society podcast)