Arts and Humanities Discovery Advisory Group

This funding area was formerly called Medical Humanities.

Its remit covers applications that aim to transform understandings of health, healthcare, and wellbeing in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts. It includes all disciplines in the arts and humanities (including ‘medical humanities’ and ‘health humanities’), such as (but not limited to): history; anthropology; literary and cultural studies; linguistics; 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, healthcare and/or wellbeing. Examples include, but are not limited to: archival research; textual, visual, and audio-visual analysis; interviews, ethnography, and/or participatory research; artistic or practice-led methodologies; digital and/or computational approaches; 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 are listed below. Additional experts will join the panel as necessary.