Hearing the voice 2
Year of award: 2015
Grantholders
Prof Charles Fernyhough
Durham University
Dr Angela Woods
Durham University
Dr Ben Alderson-Day
Durham University
Prof Christopher Cook
Durham University
Prof Corinne Saunders
Durham University
Prof Patricia Waugh
Durham University
Project summary
Building on an earlier Wellcome Strategic Award, this project explores voice-hearing in the context of seven new research domains. It focuses on: the relationships between voice-hearing and everyday processes of sense perception, memory, language and creativity; why some voices (and not others) are experienced as distressing; how voices can change across the life course; the ways in which voices can act as important social, cultural and political forces.
Work will involve developing a comprehensive online resource for voice-hearers and mental health professionals, and an arts-led programme of public engagement.