Posts by Hannah Tweed

SMLC Seminar: Allan Beveridge, ‘”Is Everyone Mad?” The Depiction of Mental Disturbance in the Work of Dostoyevsky’, Glasgow

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All are warmly invited to attend the next talk in the School of Modern Languages and Culture Research Seminar Series at 1pm, Wed 26th Nov, r317 Hetherington Building. University of Glasgow. A map is available here. Dr Allan Beveridge, University of Edinburgh, Queen Margaret Hospital, will present the following paper: ‘”Is Everyone Mad?” The Depiction of… Continue reading →

Sociology Seminar: Teresa Piacentini, ‘Intercultural Communication in Healthcare’, Glasgow

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This week the Sociology subject area hosts its final seminar of the semester. This will be given by our very own Dr. Teresa Piacentini on ‘An Intersectional Approach to Analysing Intercultural Communication in Health Care Settings: Findings from Glasgow’ (abstract below). The seminar will take place on Wednesday 26th November from 4-5:30pm in room 916,… Continue reading →

Book Launch: The Naming of Cancer, Tracey S. Rosenberg, Edinburgh

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Book launch: The Naming of Cancer by Tracey S. Rosenberg Thursday 27 November, 6-7.30pm (event starts properly at 6.30pm) Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton’s Close (off Canongate), Edinburgh, ​EH8 8DT The Naming of Cancer begins in a hospital, and from there explores the experience of cancer from a multitude of perspectives, from the person struggling to survive… Continue reading →

Wellcome Trust unveils new funding framework

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The Wellcome Trust has announced exciting changes to its funding framework. The most significant changes are: A new scheme for collaborative research, to support groups of researchers to pursue key questions. This scheme is to enable team projects, led by multiple researchers, which can only succeed through working together. A new scheme for seed funding… Continue reading →

Lecture by David Gow, the inventor of the first multi-articulated bionic hand

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Date: 8pm, 17th November 2014 Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL (the venue is accessible for wheelchair users) Lecture and discussion: Did you know that the world’s first multi-articulated bionic hand was invented in Edinburgh? Do you want to find out more? Then come to November’s Café Scientifique to meet the… Continue reading →

Tenth International Biomedical Ethics Film Festival, Edinburgh

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The Tenth International Biomedical Ethics Film Festival will be taking place from the 21st to the 23rd of November 2014 at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. The topic for 2014 is The Moral Status of the Human Embryo.  This event is being supported by the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics in conjunction with the Edinburgh Filmhouse, St Marys’… Continue reading →

Medical Humanities Discussion Group November

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Our Medical Humanities Discussion Group continues today, 5th November, with Megan Coyer’s exciting presentation entitled ‘The Medical Blackwoodians: Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press’. The time is today from 1pm to 2-2.30pm, in the Creative Space in the Western Infirmary, in Building G, First Floor (close to the Alexander Elder Chapel and opposite… Continue reading →

Scottish Premier of Equal Voices, RSNO

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Date: Friday 7th Nov 2014 Scottish Premier of ‘Equal Voices’ (Sally Beamish) and ‘An Equal Voice’ (Andrew Motion), in association with the RSNO. Equal Voices is a five movement work commissioned to mark the centenary of the start of WWI. The text is a found poem based on accounts of shell shock, drawing from psychiatric case notes and… Continue reading →

Innovation (Re)Generation: Exploring Regenerative Medicine

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ESRC Festival of Social Science Join us and the Innogen and Mason Institute, Edinburgh, on Tuesday, 4th November at 6pm for the world premiere of a specially commissioned documentary film that explores the implication of regenerative medicine (RM) through the views of scientists developing new RM therapies, academics exploring the impact of RM, and those… Continue reading →

Centre for Social History in Health and Healthcare Annual Lecture

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Please register for the CSHHH Annual Lecture ‘Men and Women Under Stress’, at 5pm on 12th November 2014. Professor Mark Jackson BSc MB BS PhD, Professor of the History of Medicine and Research Theme Leader for Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter and currently Senior Academic Adviser (Medical Humanities) at the Wellcome Trust is this year’s speaker.… Continue reading →