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Current Research Projects

We support a variety of research projects via our work as a University Research Institute and through our Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. These include:

ReaderBank

The world's most ambitious study of the links between reading, imagination and wellbeing.
ReaderBank logo featuring an opened book over the word 'ReaderBank' in uppercase font.

SUNRISE Study

Exploring how research into the subjective experience of depression, anxiety and psychosis is conducted, valued and taken up within mental health research.
Photograph of three people sitting on a sofa watching the television, with atmospheric lighting and backs facing the camera.

Blue Cabin Creative Facilitation Training

Free training in Creative Facilitation for care-experienced young adults.
logo of 'blue cabin', with a tepee made out of basic shapes in between the words. The text 'in' in 'cabin' is in light blue.

Changing Gears

A project exploring how participation in an e-bike cycling skills programme might foster new forms of social participation and community building.
Photograph of two cyclists cycling away from the camera, down a nature path with trees surrounding it.

Under Pressure

Investigating the physiological and psychological effects of global warming through a historical and cultural geography of “meteorosensitivity”.
Science sketch of a diagram concerning pressure.

Neurodiversifying the Academy

Making humanities research more accessible and inclusive for neurodivergent researchers.
Silver spoons

Epistemology and Post-COVID

Developing a meta-epistemological framework for interdisciplinary health research and health care policy-work, focused on post-Covid syndrome.
Microscopic scientific image of a plant part

When Categories Constrain Care

Exploring how data has been used to obscure health inequalities related to society and the environment.
Old newspaper sketch of a sign saying 'Danger DUST at Work'

LIVV App

A smartphone app designed to help young people who hear distressing voices understand and cope with their experiences.
LIVV logo

2025 Big Survey with Action for ME

Collaborating with Action for ME to better understand what it is like to live with ME and Long Covid with ME symptoms.
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