The University of Edinburgh is pleased to advertise a Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellowship in the History of Medicine, tenable for eighteen months from 1 August 2015. The appointment will be based in the Science, Technology and Innovation Studies subject group of the School of Social and Political Sciences. The successful applicant will hold or… Continue reading
Please join us on Thursday, 21 May 2015 for a special MI Visiting Scholar Lunch with Prof Simon Halliday from the University of York, taking place from 1:00pm – 2:00pm in the Neil MacCormick Room in Old College (University of Edinburgh). Prof Halliday is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Edinburgh Law School and… Continue reading
The University of Strathclyde is planning to support a University Award application to the Wellcome Trust in the Medical Humanities and History. Its Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH Glasgow) is an internationally recognised research environment with a focus on the experiences of health and medicine in the modern period around the… Continue reading
Magazine Launch and Readings – Friday 24th April 2015 All are welcome to celebrate the first edition of The Lumen, a magazine for new literature and visual art that arose from a student-led medical humanities group in Edinburgh. The Lumen intends to provide a forum for the expression of the unique aspects of the medical encounter. The evening will feature:… Continue reading
In 2014, the University of Glasgow was awarded funding from the Wellcome Trust to digitise the records of Gartnavel Royal Hospital. The project aims to digitise thousands of documents including photographs, in-house staff publications, administrative papers, financial documents and patient records. Staff and patient records from 1914 onwards will not be digitised due to data… Continue reading
Medical Humanities – Outside, Inside, or Side by Side? I came to the Medical Humanities Research Centre here in Glasgow well aware that the medical humanities comprise a field of study where its representatives continuously debate and discuss what their object of study really is, how research should be conducted and the overall value of… Continue reading
9th April 2015, Scottish Universities Insight Institute (SUII), Glasgow 10th April 2015, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh The rising prevalence of mental illness is a growing concern for societies worldwide and access to mental health care is one of the top public health priorities in Scotland, as in many countries. In addition, as more and more… Continue reading
Glasgow School for Business and Society. Reference Number: S2015GSBS004 Studentship Project Title: Stress, Starvation, and Epigenetic Change: the historic origins of chronic ill-health amongst the Irish Diaspora. Applications are invited for a full-time PhD research studentship at Glasgow Caledonian University within the Glasgow School for Business and Society. The studentship is for a period of… Continue reading
Friday 24 April 2015 Insight Institute, Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ Your attention is drawn to the Wellcome Trust’s pre-application workshop for the humanities and social sciences, to be held this April in Glasgow. Please apply by Friday 20th March 2015, using this link. The workshop will take place on 24th April 2015 from 10.30… Continue reading
The AMH 2015 annual conference will be held at Dartington Hall, Devon, 23rd-25th June. This year’s theme is ‘Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts’. The deadline for the call for presentations has been extended to 20th March 2015. The CFP is available here, and the draft programme outline is available to… Continue reading
