Opportunities & News

Upcoming Opportunities

A list of opportunities offered by Newcastle Medical Humanities Network.

Call for Work in Progress Series, 2023/24

Call for presentations from Newcastle University staff and students with the opportunity to get feedback on work in progress that relates to medical humanities.

Last modified: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:53:34 BST

Upcoming News

Exciting news from our Newcastle Medical Humanities Network members.

Read Professor Anne Whitehead's latest blog 'Facing the Future'

Read Professor Anne Whitehead's latest blog 'Facing the Future', following a conversation with the Samaritans about the free service Facing The Future Support Groups for those who have been bereaved by suicide.

Last modified: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:55:40 GMT

The Suicide Cultures Podcast latest episode Relating Suicide with Anne Whitehead

In this episode Anne Whitehead speaks about her new book Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective.

Last modified: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:53:28 GMT

New Publication Corporeal Pedagogy: Visualizing Anatomy Through Art, Archaeology

Newcastle Medical Humanities Network is thrilled to announced the latest published chapter by members Dr Olivia Turner and Dr Sally Waite, 'Corporeal Pedagogy'

Last modified: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:50:30 GMT

Lucy Carolan shortlisted for The Prescription Prize in Creative Writing 2023

Congratulations to Lucy Carolan, Fine Art PhD Researcher, who has been shortlisted for The Prescription Prize in Creative Writing 2023, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Last modified: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:38:59 BST

'Where We Will Go' has won an Engagement & Place Award

This project by Anne Whitehead and Judith Rankin and short film by Kate Sweeney has won a Newcastle University Engagement and Place Award 2023.

Last modified: Thu, 11 May 2023 14:57:00 BST

'Losing a Baby from a Multiple Pregnancy' has been nominated for an award

This project by Anne Whitehead and Judith Rankin has been nominated for the Engaging for Health, Well-being and Societal Benefit Award 2023.

Last modified: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:21:13 BST

Suicide Cultures Online Seminar with Anne Whitehead, 18 May 2023 at 4pm

Anne Whitehead will be giving a paper titled 'Promiscuous care: relating suicide in Orlando von Einsidel’s Evelyn'.

Last modified: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:45:48 GMT

Film Screening: Care (2023) at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

A special work in progress preview screening on Sunday 5th March, 18:15, Maltings Henry Travers Studio.

Last modified: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:24:46 GMT

3 new funded projects by the Wellcome Trust ISSF Scheme

The Newcastle Medical Humanities Network is delighted to announce the funding of 3 projects by the Wellcome Trust ISSF – Medical Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences Bid Preparation Scheme.

Last modified: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:16:07 BST

The Doctor's Garden by Dr Clare Hickman is now available open access

The Doctor's Garden by network member Dr Clare Hickman is now available open access.

Last modified: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:28:28 BST

Congratulations to Dr Joey Isaac Jenkins on their funding award.

Dr Joey Isaac Jenkins has been awarded a Catherine Cookson Foundation grant for their project 'Bleeding Disorders: Representation and Experience'.

Last modified: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:30:46 BST

The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities now out in paperback

The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities edited by network co-lead Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods, with Sarah Atkinson, Jane Macnaughton and Jennifer Richards now out in paperback!

Last modified: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:47:40 BST

Exhibition: Picturing Clouds of Unknowing by Lucy Carolan

This show is the final exhibition of Lucy's creative practice doctoral research. On display until 3 September 2022 at Hatton Gallery.

Last modified: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:29:15 BST

The Way My Body Feels: An exhibition and British Medical Journal Podcast

New exhibition brings together art, medicine and archaeology at the GNM: Hancock by Dr Olivia Turner and Dr Sally Waite.

Last modified: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:58:37 BST

Funded project on ‘Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in relation to medicine and

During 2022-2024, Jan Deckers, Senior Lecturer in Bioethics in the School of Medicine, is the principal investigator on a project funded by the Butterfield Awards for UK-Japan collaboration in medical research and public health practice.

Last modified: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:28:37 BST

Past Opportunities

An archive of past opportunities offered by Newcastle Medical Humanities Network.