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WoMaHN Inaugural Symposium and Key Members Meeting

This week IMH's Professor Cassandra Phoenix will join a group of international scholars at the University of Tilberg for the inaugural symposium and Key Member meeting of the Women’s Marginalised Health Network (WoMaHN), where she will present work from the programme of research she is leading within the IMH and the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences on movement through menopause.
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Narrative & Cognition Lab Events Programme, Jan–June 2024

Announcing the events line-up for the Narrative and Cognition Lab.
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Welcome to David L. Martin

We are delighted to welcome David L. Martin to our Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
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Narrative Practices Across Durham

Reflections on a Durham-wide workshop for narrative in health.
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Would you like to become a Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities?

We warmly invite expressions of interest from Durham University researchers who would like to become a Fellow of the IMH.
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Discovery Research Platform Job Opportunities!

We are delighted to announce the following vacancies within the Discovery Research Platform and Institute for Medical Humanities Operations Team.
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Welcome to Emily Tupper

A warm welcome to Emily Tupper, who joins the Moving Bodies Lab on the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
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Medical Humanities and Sport and Exercise Sciences: An Invitation to Dialogue

Reflections on the first event in the Moving Bodies Lab led by Cassie Phoenix.
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IMH announces three new Honorary Fellows

A warm welcome to David Woodhead, Kelechi Anucha and William Viney.
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Inside Health: What’s stopping us from exercising in older age?

Professor Cassie Phoenix features on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health with James Gallagher.
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Twinkind: The singular significance of twins

Congratulations to William Viney on the publication of Twinkind: The singular significance of twins.
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Welcoming Tony Sumner to the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities

We are delighted to welcome Tony Sumner, who joins us as a Curatorial Fellow in Narrative Practices on the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
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