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Assistant Professor (Research) in Medical Humanities

Employer
Durham University
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
Salary Not specified
Date posted
Aug 4, 2021

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Position Type
Faculty Positions, Education, Other Education
Employment Level
Non-Tenured Track
Employment Type
Full Time

Institute for Medical Humanities

Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities was formed in 2000 and has played a leading role in developing the critical medical humanities nationally and internationally. In 2018 the then Centre for Medical Humanities relaunched as the UK's first Institute for Medical Humanities with significant funding from the Wellcome Trust. Additional significant funding obtained in October 2020 has enabled us to make further investments in new staff to take forward our vision to improve human health through research on hidden experiences. Hidden experience includes that which is difficult to explain and understand for the individual themselves; that hidden through shame and stigma from wider society; that which medical science lacks the technologies to reveal; and also experience that takes place within spaces, such as dreams or the imagination, which are hard to reach. IMH has a significant role in national leadership in the field as Co-Chair of the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research and we recently hosted the largest ever online gathering of international medical humanities scholars (1300 registered) at the NNMHR Congress. IMH has an international reputation and working research relationships with the Universities of Linköping, Uppsala, Groningen and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Research within the IMH has included two major Wellcome-funded projects: Hearing the Voice and Life of Breath. These projects have led to three Impact Case Studies in the current REF. In relation to individual and community mental health and wellbeing, we have significant involvement in the UK What Works Centre for Wellbeing (Homepage - What Works Wellbeing), part of the What Works Network to improve the way government and other organisations create, share and use high-quality evidence for decision-making. Current and developing work involves projects on dreams and liminal cognition, neurodiversity, sensory issues such as deafness and touch, marginalised drug user communities, menopause and adolescent anxiety. In our pursuit of research excellence within the critical medical humanities, IMH is committed to a caring, creative and collaborative research culture in which everyone feels valued and supported. We have a 10-year plan to diversify our staff base and we specifically welcome applications from black and ethnic minority candidates.

For more information visit the Institute web pages at www.durham.ac.uk/imh

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