Tag Archives: practice and the practitioner

Drawing Women’s Cancer in Cardiff

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Jac Saorsa
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Space and Place in the Health Humanities, plus a Masterclass on the Geography of a Dance Intervention – Prof Sarah Atkinson (Seminar, Edinburgh, 23 Jan 2014)

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The sixth Scottish Health Humanities Seminar and Masterclass will be on Thursday 23 January 2014. Prof Sarah Atkinson, Deptartment of Geography, Durham University. Co-Director of Belief, Understanding and Wellbeing, Wolfson Research Institute, and Associate Director, Centre for Medical Humanities Public Seminar: Space and … Continue reading →

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Co-Producing Knowledge on Health, Wellbeing and Place through Participatory Research (CfP session at the RGS 2014 Conference, London 26-29 August 2014)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Royal Geographic Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference Geographies of co-production London, Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 August 2014 Call for Papers for a session entitled: Co-Producing Knowledge on Health, Wellbeing and Place through Participatory Research Session Sponsor: Geography of … Continue reading →

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Entries are open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize (Poetry and Medicine)

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Entries are now open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems in English of up to 50 lines text, excluding title and line spacing. With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of … Continue reading →

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Notes from Glaveston (Final Post): Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Jac Saorsa

Week 9. This will be my final post in this series as my time in Galveston is coming to an end. My work in the anatomy department over the last couple of weeks reminded me however how much my visual … Continue reading →

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Notes from Galveston (week 6), Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Jac Saorsa

Scratch everything I said last week about 70,000 biking incomers to the island this week… word is that there were over 400,000 extra people here over this last weekend! It would not surprise me at all if this were indeed … Continue reading →

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Notes from Galveston (Week 2): Jac Saorsa, Visiting scholar at the University of Texas

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Jac Saorsa

Each day I walk either along the shore, or past beautiful Victorian architecture in the nationally acclaimed ‘historic district’, to the office I have been assigned at the Institute of Medical Humanities. (To be fair, I actually have two offices… … Continue reading →

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International perspectives on participation and engagement in the arts (CfP, Conference, Netherlands, 20-21 June 2014)

Posted on October 3, 2013 by anniRaw

International perspectives on participation and engagement in the arts 20th-21st June 2014 Utrecht University, Netherlands Networking between academics, policy makers and arts practitioners Transfer of best practices in participatory arts and participatory decision-making in cultural policy Policy transfer between different countries, … Continue reading →

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Entries are open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize (Poetry and Medicine)

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of £5,000, the Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In its first 4 years, the Hippocrates Prize has … Continue reading →

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Notes from Galveston: Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Jac Saorsa

Well, I couldn’t help humming that song by Glen Campbell as I took an early morning stroll along the beach on this, my first day in Galveston! As a Visiting Scholar at the UTMB Institute for the Medical Humanities  I … Continue reading →

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