Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2016 (360G-Wellcome-201898_Z_16_Z)

Following on from the success of preceding Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conferences in 2014 and 2015, this interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect the broad and vibrant research of the medical humanities by bringing together postgraduate researchers from a number of different disciplines from institutions across the UK and abroad. The conference will enable students at all stages of their postgraduate career to exchange ideas and share their work in a welcoming and stimulating environment, providing the opportunity to discuss their research with scholars working from a range of perspectives. Delegates have been invited to submit abstracts for a twenty-minute paper or sixty-minute workshop on any subject relating to health, illness, sex, and medicine. Panels will be supplemented by two keynote speeches, a roundtable discussion about engagement and impact, and a related performance that will be open to both delegates and the wider community. There will be a conference meal on the first evening of the conference, and a networking event on the second evening of the conference. We hope that the conference will promote interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration. We also hope to provoke lively debate about the intersection of medical practice and medical humanities.