Research centre

Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities

Our group explores the intersection of medicine, healthcare practices and the human experience through the lens of the humanities. We provide a platform for teaching innovations, public engagement, research collaborations and grant applications.

Part of Archaeology, English, Film, History, Modern languages and linguistics, Medicine, Music, Philosophy

About

The Faculties of Medicine, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences created the Centre for Medical and Health Humanities based on their existing work together and future collaborations.

The centre promotes interdisciplinary research and hosts external events including guest speakers, seminars and conferences.

Our main aims are to publicise the work done by our members, and to forge and extend links with researchers in other institutions globally.

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Sofia Bull

Associate Professor

Research interests

Television studies
Science, medicine and policing on television
Medical humanities

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Sofia

Email: S.Bull@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7054

Professor Sonia Zakrzewski

Prof of Bioarchaeology & BioAnthropology

Research interests

bioarchaeology and palaeopathology
disAbility, impairment, injury and disease
race, migration and mobility

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Sonia

Email: S.R.Zakrzewski@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4778

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Dr Vivienne Orchard

Lecturer

Research interests

Francophone film, literature and cultural theory 20th and 21st century
Disability Studies and Cultural Representation
Film and literature of migration and displacement

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Vivienne

Email: V.Orchard@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3380

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Aude Campmas

Lecturer in French Studies

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Research, public engagement, and education are core to the interdisciplinary and innovative projects the Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities is developing.

Linda Turner

Professorial Fellow-Education

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Medical Humanities as a field of enquiry and arts and humanities based practice have been embedded in Medical Education through collaboration between faculties, developing medical students’ creativity, criticality and reflective practice.

Joan Tumblety

Associate Professor

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As a historian I am intrigued by how 'wellbeing' emerged as a category of understanding and experience. Studying the promotion of natural health therapies in early to mid-20th-century France helps me understand the role of physicians in shaping popular ideas of health and beauty.