Angela Woods
Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Working on voice-hearing, psychosis, narrative, interdisciplinarity / Starting work on postpartum psychosis
- A question front of mind for me this week is who cares for us, in scrubs, when we are bleeding and vulnerable and hormonally all over the place? Strangers Michael Rosen’s poem for but crucially eclipsing Kier Starmer @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social www.culturematters.org.uk/island-of-st...
- @dalupton.bsky.social Hello! I'm putting together a brief provocation on zineing in medical humanities & wondered if you might share your 2022 chapter with me? For some reason our library doesn't have ebook access - I've requested it but it's likely to take some weeks. Thanks so much if you can
- Reposted by Angela WoodsCongratulations to @literarti.bsky.social from our @durhamimh.bsky.social for being chosen for an honorary doctorate from @liu.se. Hugely deserved! tinyurl.com/2zuhzdre
- Reposted by Angela WoodsNOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
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- A fantastic thesis that will be essential reading for anyone who is thinking critically about the role that narrative can, does, should play in our conceptualisation of and therapeutic engagement with mental health & distress. Congratulations @sallylatham.bsky.social! 🍾🎉
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- Reposted by Angela WoodsFollowing a blissful 6 months away from social media I am somewhat hesitantly returning - looking forward to connecting and re-connecting in this new space! Anyone interested in my work can find more info here: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/veroni...
- 10 days left to apply for a Bridging Fellowship in Medical Humanities! Find out more about all the job opportunities in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities here medhumsplatform.org/work-with-us/
- We are recruiting! 3 Bridging Fellowships of 12 months for recent PhD graduates to develop research, ideas and connections in the @durhamimh.bsky.social Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. Applications close 25 April durham.taleo.net/careersectio... Please share widely!
- I consider myself not totally ill-informed about health inequalities but still find this shocking. The neglect of reproductive health and silencing of women’s experience in this country is disgraceful
- I am so excited that Stephani Hatch @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will be joining us @durhamimh.bsky.social to give a public lecture on health & inequalities research. Please join us Weds 30 April, 430 BST in-person or online
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- This is an absolutely fascinating article for all on this platform. ‘In Bluesky’s founding documents, taking a lesson from Twitter’s history, Graber introduced a slogan: “The company is a future adversary.”’ So impressed by the commitment to structures which resist toxicity
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- The International Narrative Neurology Network invites your participation/expression of interest! A network for Led by @clairejeantils.bsky.social with @benbgdalton.bsky.social Rong Huang & Francois Tison. Full details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...
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- Reposted by Angela WoodsMedicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts
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- Reposted by Angela Woods🔎 #MedHums101 From interviews and people's stories through to films and visual art, the medical humanities extends what counts as evidence in health research. Read some of our top articles on this theme 👉 thepolyphony.org/tag/evidence/
- Congratulations @drbevans.bsky.social 🎉🙌Your deeply engaged research on embodiment & latterly on energy limiting conditions continues to be nothing short of inspirational ✨. Thrilled for you and for your collaborators (& if it’s not an overreach, also thrilled for the medical humanities!)
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- We are recruiting! 3 Bridging Fellowships of 12 months for recent PhD graduates to develop research, ideas and connections in the @durhamimh.bsky.social Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. Applications close 25 April durham.taleo.net/careersectio... Please share widely!
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- 📣Postdoc Aarhus University! 2.5 yr post working with @mettehoybye.bsky.social on an ethnographic project investigating the ethical & societal impacts of transitioning from animal to human-based biomedical research models. #STS #MedAnthro #MedicalHumanities au.career.emply.com/ad/postdoc-i...
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- Naomi Booth’s stunning new novel - raw content - is among many other things an extraordinary insight into maternal OCD. It was such a privilege to talk with her tonight about risk, writing, Yorkshire, rapture & the shock of birth at a Collected Books event www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
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- Reposted by Angela WoodsDEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM
- Very excited for this hybrid talk next Friday and that at long last I get to meet Gerald Jordan @imh-uob.bsky.social in person. Please join us!
- Reposted by Angela WoodsSo excited to announce our confirmed line-up of keynotes and invited speakers: M. Remi Yergeau, Lisa Johnson, Daniel Oliver, Abs Ashley, and Diana Beljaars! More things, including workshops to be announced! CFP CLOSES TOMORROW!!
- 💫 📣 Check out the stellar line-up of speakers joining us in person in Durham at Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions (24–26 June 2025). ndhumanities.com/2025/02/26/c...
- Reposted by Angela WoodsNIH recently found 1 in 22 ppl who’d had Covid developed ME/CFS. The “mild” form of that disease, as @julialmv.bsky.social’s graph shows, means losing capacity to do 50% of your daily activities. What would you give up? Friends? Time w/your kids? Could you cut work hours in half w/o losing yr job?
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- Global Medical Humanities Roundtable 7 March 930 GMT: 🌎 Kirsten Ostherr (Rice University) 🌏 Liping Guo (Peking University) 🌏 Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland) 🌍 Victoria Amma Osei-Bonsu (University of Ghana-Legon) 🌍 Jordan McCullough (Editor @the-polyphony.bsky.social)
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- This seven-part series on #birthtrauma focuses on reproductive justice, queering birth, and obstetric violence. Essential reading for anyone who wants to engage with or respond to the 'call for care' @the-polyphony.bsky.social
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- Our love is indeed like the phosphorous cycle 💚
- Peak February
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- Enheartened to read this from the @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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- Lunar new year joy with five year olds 🐍🌈
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- Are you looking to connect into conversations across the medical humanities? Do you want to learn more about the latest concepts, writers, projects and people animating the field? The Polyphony has arrived in BlueSky 🎉🦋🐟 Please join us & share widely @the-polyphony.bsky.social #MedHums
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- The implications of this extend far beyond geography departments, as do the practical suggestions for what can be done at the level of the everyday
- an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social
- ‘Cultivating #Patients: Identities, Technologies, & Trading Zones of Patienthood’ Interdisciplinary Conference Uppsala University, Sweden 21-22 August 2025 Deadline for abstracts: 1 March #histmed #medhums t.co/Hifr1XV0fI
- The latest issue of Medical Humanities is a special issue by the Wellcome-funded "Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures" project: a dazzling collection of approaches to disability, technology and the future mh.bmj.com/content/50/4... One in which to delve deeply!
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- "It is not all harmonious; dissonance abides. But, by engaging with the paradoxes of madness, its contradictions, contrariness, and incoherence, Too Mad to be True advances the conversation in a direction that one might paradoxically call reasonable." Stellar review @schizosemia.bsky.social!
- "Pharmaceutical Humanities and Narrative Pharmacy" www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/18... 👀 Looking forward to reading this (and excited, as always, to see the field develop...)
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