Medicine, Health and Wellbeing Research Group

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Northumbria’s Medicine, Health and Wellbeing in the Humanities Research Group reflects the University’s dedication to cross-disciplinary working to engage with some of the most important subjects to society. With a chronological coverage from the early modern period to the present day, members of this group hold a variety of specialist interests in both physical and mental health, as well as the wider cultural management of the body.

At the core of the Group work is an active interest in literature, language and medicine. Members enjoy exploring themes such as narrative medicine and the linguistics of health communication. Medical manuals, novels, poetry, periodicals, remedy books, manuscripts, comics, memoir, and policy make up just some of the types of writing with which group researchers work. Researchers also engage with themes such as gender, sexuality, professional identity, disability, and education, examining how each affects health culture and experience.

The Group research has been supported by a range of funders such as the Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), along with the Engineering and Physical Space Research Council (EPSRC), the Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC), and the European Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship Programme).

The Group collaborates with other regional, national and international institutions and is keen to test the boundaries and shape the future of medical and health humanities and its surrounding cultures. Group researchers enjoy working with the public and making positive contributions to contemporary problem-solving. They have worked with a variety of organisations including The National Trust, The Sleep Charity, Newcastle Libraries, New Writing North, and Durham Book Festival. Exhibitions of members’ work have taken place at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; L' École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Paris, Shandy Hall, Yorkshire; the Royal Society of Medicine, London and the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Group researchers also engage with UK Parliament and its processes for creating change.

New members from across the University are always welcome, as is contact from organisations or prospective research students who might be interested in working with the group.

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Northumbria University
London