Project Manager: The Life of Breath The Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) at Durham University is looking to appoint a Project Manager to for the Life of Breath, a five-year research project supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award in the Medical Humanities. The ‘Life of Breath’ (LoB) is based in Durham University and… Continue reading
The Mason Institute invites you to join us for our next MI Roadshow Lunch this Thursday, 26th February from 12:30pm – 2:00pm. This month, we’ll be at Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and discussing “The Commercialisation of Tissue and Data” with a presentation by Dr Mark Taylor (Sheffield University) and responses… Continue reading
You are invited to join the next seminar in our Spring Series on Wednesday 25th February at 4.00 for 4.30pm: ‘The Shape of Things to Come’: The politics of planning new hospitals in inter war England and France, Professor Barry Doyle (Professor of Health History, University of Huddersfield) Venue: CEE7, Centre for Executive Education Building… Continue reading
“Collections”: five fully funded Ph.D.s at the University of Glasgow, including history of medicine and history of science projects in collaboration with the University Archives, Special Collections, and The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. The Leverhulme Trust: “Collections” ScholarshipsCollections: an Enlightenment Pedagogy for the 21st CenturyIt is well known that in the three hundred years since the Enlightenment, knowledge… Continue reading
You are warmly invited to a Medical Humanities Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries Scheme Showcase, to be held at Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, on 5th March, at any time between 4pm and 6pm. Full details are below. The event is free, but spaces are limited. Interested parties should register here. A sample of archives and… Continue reading
The Mason Institute are planning to show GATTACA in the Brass Monkey (4 Drummond Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH8 9TU) on Thursday 26th March from 5.30 till 8pm. Dr Shona Kerr has very kindly agreed to give a short talk about some of the issues raised by the film (see here for her research profile) in… Continue reading
A major new book by Professor Paul Crawford and colleagues provides the world’s first manifesto for the new field of health humanities. Professor Crawford pioneered the global development of health humanities in 2008, founding both the International Health Humanities Network and Madness and Literature Network with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Alongside… Continue reading
The Centre for the History of European Discourses (CHED) at the University of Queensland (Australia) is looking for well-qualified and innovative postdoctoral researchers (no more than 5 years out of their PhD by June 30, 2015) whom it can support as applicants to the University of Queensland’s Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme, which offers full-time research-only positions… Continue reading
The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), Glasgow Caledonian University The first CSHHH seminar of 2015 will be on 4th February when we welcome Professor Christine Hallett of Manchester University at 4:30 pm (4pm for refreshments) in the Centre for Executive Education, room 07 (CEE07) on the GCU Campus. A brief abstract… Continue reading
The Hektoen Essay Competition invites final contributions. Participants should submit essays of no more than 1,600 words in length by 31st January 2015 for the following contests: The Hektoen Grand Prix – $1,200 Participants should write a Famous Hospitals essay about a historical or current hospital for the Hektoen Briefs section. One prize will be awarded. Please see… Continue reading
