Medical Humanities Discovery Advisory Group
This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Career Development Awards and Wellcome Discovery Awards.
Its remit covers applications that aim to transform understandings of health, healthcare, and wellbeing in their social, historical, and cultural contexts. It includes all disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as (but not limited to): history; literary and cultural studies; Classics; philosophy; creative arts and design; bioarchaeology. It includes all methodologies and approaches, as long as the aim is to generate new knowledge and understandings related to health. Examples include, but are not limited to: archival research; textual, visual, and audio-visual analysis; digital humanities; creative or practice-led methodologies; interviews and oral histories; conceptual analysis; archaeological analysis of material culture or organic matter.
Examples include:
- research on experiences of health and healthcare, health practice and/or policy, and the generation of medical knowledge
- research on cultural representations of illness and wellbeing and their reception and impact
- research on health, healthcare, and wellbeing in their social, cultural, and political contexts in any time-period or in any geographical location
- the development of new methodologies, techniques, and conceptual frameworks in the arts and humanities related to research on health, healthcare, and wellbeing.
Members
Members are listed below. Additional experts will join the panel as necessary.
Professor Sasha Handley (Chair)
University of Manchester
Professor Sarah Atkinson
Durham University
Dr Monika Baar
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
Professor Deepika Bahri
Emory University, USA
Dr Daniel Conway
University of Westminster
Dr Rohan Deb Roy
University of Reading
Dr Abir Hamdar
Durham University
Professor Janet Harbord
Queen Mary University of London
Professor Anthony Ryan Hatch
Wesleyan University, USA
Professor Nozipho Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Professor Diane Price-Herndl
University of South Florida, USA
Professor Laura Salisbury
University of Exeter
Professor Steven Sturdy
University of Edinburgh
Professor Fredrik Svenaeus
A Foundation, Sweden
Dr Carla Tsampiras
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Manager
Dominic Jones
Funding Manager
Wellcome Trust