Future Collaborations in the Health Humanities: Half-day workshop

After two wonderfully productive events this term, we warmly welcome researchers from across QMUL to a half-day workshop to collaboratively think through what a sustained, cross-faculty health humanities research platform at our university might involve.

In their training, research and practice, healthcare professionals often question: what do we take for granted, and why? Why do our expectations of healthcare—physical, emotional, and psychological—change? How are those expectations linked to our cultural and social environment? Who chooses to be a nurse, or a doctor? Can the answers to these questions improve health?

Across QMUL a wide range of researchers address questions like these, but we do not currently have a platform for contacting and collaborating with one another. Funding calls in medical sciences, and humanities and social sciences, increasingly welcome interdisciplinary collaboration, but there are few opportunities for building the necessary relationships for such collaborations.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different QMUL schools and departments and share with one another why we research health and health humanities, and what we want from an interdisciplinary centre or platform at QMUL. We particularly welcome colleagues from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, as well as the many researchers who study these questions in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

We are delighted to welcome Mary Robson (Senior Creative Facilitator, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University) to the workshop. She has extensive expertise in guiding productive, collegiate interdisciplinary discussions.

The meeting will start with lunch at midday, and will run until 4.30pm. We will be meeting in the Colette Bowe Room, in the Queens Building, on Mile End Campus.

For any questions about this event, please contact the organisers: Shital Pravinchandra ([email protected]), Jenny Bangham ([email protected]), and Ross MacFarlane ([email protected]), Pedro Andrés Pérez Rothstein ([email protected]).

Host or Publisher Health and Humanities Research Forum