Assuring the future of medical humanities in the UK: a post-graduate conference Embodied understandings . (360G-Wellcome-101255_Z_13_Z)

Funding is requested to enable free participation in the first dedicated conference for post-graduates in Medical Humanities: Understanding human flourishing: a postgraduate medical humanities conference. 16-17 May 2013, Durham University. Front page Costs include catering and the expenses of three visiting speakers. Medical Humanities is growing rapidly with several new interdisciplinary university centres across the UK. Ensuring this continued growth and future research excellence in Medi cal Humanities requires recognition and intellectual support for the burgeoning community of postgraduates associated or self-affiliating with these new initiatives. The conference is timely in bringing together these postgraduate researchers to explore and exchange their interdisciplinary perspectives and methods on health, illness and human flourishing and to build networks and collaborative relationships for the future. A panel discussion on academic publishing will provide information and ad vice for those embarking on a career in medical humanities. The keynote speaker is Professor Stuart Murray, director of the new Centre for Medical Humanities at Leeds University. Panellists are Professor Brian Hurwitz from the Wellcome-supported Centre for Humanities and Health at Kings College, London and Dr. Deborah Kirklin, editor of the BMJ Medical Humanities journal, London, who join Professor Martyn Evans, co-director of Wellcome-supported Durham Centre for Medical Humanities