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Filipa Teixeira considers the notion of (mis)fitting within higher education and reflects on what is needed to craft spaces where diverse groups of researchers can "fit together well" while creating productive and lasting connections.

Shruti Ghosh explores zine making as a method for "queering" knowledge production in health research.

Atholl Kleinhans reflects on how the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School helped him to find an "epistemological home" that embraced both his research and his multifaceted identity.

Sharanraj Krishnan discusses how his engagement with the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School prompted him to ‘re-enter’ the ‘field’ and reexamine the positionality of the “I” within his research.

Harriet Mossop examines pleasure and pain as entryways into queer auto-theory in this reflection on 'Locating the “I”: autoethnography as queer methodology', a workshop led by João Florêncio and Edyta Just at the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School.

Kirti Verma explores the critical connections between literature, mental health, and the emergence of medical humanities in India through the work of writer, translator, poet, and editor Jerry Pinto.

Erika Pathó analyses the challenges related to the adoption of a Western-designed dietary measure to manage IBS symptoms in India, focusing on patients’ accounts of their experiences of dietary change.

Sally Cross explores her research on medical uncertainty in the context of fibromyalgia and ME/CFS through experimental poetry for our 'In Practice' project:

Alexander Meienberger examines the ongoing cultural and societal stigmas surrounding HIV/AIDS in Russia, highlighting the efforts of cultural initiatives to challenge these barriers and bring visibility to marginalized voices.

Grace Cooke, Lorenzo Meira-Gobel and Rory Hankins ask: what might it mean to approach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teaching through the lens of the medical humanities?.

100 years after its publication, Lucyl Harrison argues that Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway should be read as a pandemic novel that contends with the in/articulation of pandemic experience.

Nora and Margret introduce their applied anthropology podcast which explores themes of health technology and society.

Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities' Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary.

Dr Fei Li explores the integration of narrative medicine and palliative care at Peking Union Medical College in China.

Eden Rea-Hendrick brings artist and prisoner of war Charles Thrale into the realm of queer medical humanities by asking what his wartime work can reveal about midcentury concerns around gender and disability.

Informed by her experiences at the Queer Methodologies PhD School, bioethics researcher Debra Carroll-Beight envisions what an ethics of unknowing could bring to LGBTQIA+ Health Research.

In the first post of our series from the Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School, researcher Katie Munday explores the radical potential of joy as a generative process in research spaces.

.@aTinyDisruption describes his theory and practice of relating via the traditional dwelling of the shepherd’s hut in ‘vagabond ways’ to spheres that once seemed inaccessible to him due to neuronormative standards in career development.

Pamela Krause and Yvonne Saaybi reflect on the role of the humanities in transforming healthcare in crisis-affected regions, based on their experience as the co-founders of the Middle East Medical Humanities Research Lab in Beirut.

Zhaohang Lyu explores how familial ethics and consumerism shape choices surrounding stem cell therapy in the context of its commercialisation in China.