Date: 18.00 – 19.15, Friday 9th November 2018 Location: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22−26 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PQ Nursing Stories from the First World War: A Conversation with Dr Diane Atkinson The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Young Academy of Scotland warmly invite you to Nursing stories from the First World War: A conversation with… Continue reading
Book: Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page, edited by Hannah C. Tweed and Diane G. Scott (London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Reviewer: Karoliina Ollikainen, University of Glasgow Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page, edited by Hannah C. Tweed and Diane G. Scott, is part of the Palgrave Studies in… Continue reading
Location: University of Glasgow Library Closing Date for Applications: Noon 19 November 2018 Supported by the Friends of Glasgow University Library and the William Lind Foundation, the University of Glasgow Library is pleased to announce new annual Visiting Research Fellowships to support scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique… Continue reading
Date: 30th November 2018 Closing Date for Abstracts: 31st October 2018 Closing Date for Registration: 23rd November 2018 Location: University of Edinburgh, School of Health in Social Science, Teviot Place, Doorway 6, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Room 4.1 (4th floor) ‘Corpus Linguistics in Scotland’ Network Meeting Corpus Linguistics in the Arts and Humanities 30th November 2018, University of… Continue reading
Date: 1pm-5pm, 12th October 2018 Location: Birkbeck, University of London, UK Building alliances: Mental health activism and the academy There is a mental health and social welfare crisis in the UK. Disability and service user-led groups are leading campaigns to raise awareness of and challenge government cuts and policy “reform”. The question arises: how can… Continue reading
Date: 8th October 2018, 13:30 – 15:00pm Location: The Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, UK The Centre for Global Health Histories invites you to attend Global Health Histories Seminar 111: ‘Zika’, which will be held at the University of York, UK, on Monday 8th October 2018. Global Health Histories Seminar 111: ZIKA 8 October 2018, 13:30… Continue reading
Date: 11am-3pm, Friday 5th October 2018 Location: SGSAH Meeting Room, University of Glasgow Registration Open Until All Places Are Filled Places are still available for this Friday’s Scottish Medical Humanities Doctoral Research Network – Scoping Meeting, originally planned for the 7th March 2018. The scoping meeting was postponed in March due to planned industrial action. It… Continue reading
Date: 10:00-17:00, Friday 12 October 2018 Location: St Chad’s College, 18 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RH Booking is now open for this FREE training day designed to provide late-stage postgraduates and early career researchers with practical and up-to-date insights into the Research Excellence Framework (REF). With speakers to include Professor Jane Macnaughton (Durham University), Dr Coreen… Continue reading
Title/Reference No.: ‘Medical Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Literature’ (Ref:EXT19/HUM/LAWLOR) Deadline for Applicants: 15th November 2018 Location: University of Northumbria ‘Medical Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Literature’ (Ref:EXT19/HUM/LAWLOR) This studentship is funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of the three-year Major Project, WRITING DOCTORS: REPRESENTATION AND MEDICAL PERSONALITY ca. 1660-1832. The project itself deals broadly with writing by and about doctors… Continue reading
Deadline for Applications: 5pm Monday 19th November 2018 The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) has been awarded a generous Small Grant* from the Wellcome Trust to enable us to continue supporting innovative and critical medical humanities research across the network. We are delighted to announce that the second round of the NNMHR Seed… Continue reading
