Development of the Durham Centre for Medical Humanities (360G-Wellcome-209513_Z_17_Z)

With the support of the Wellcome Trust, the Durham Centre for Medical Humanities will become a nexus for world class medical humanities research. Spanning disciplines and periods, this research seeks to improve human health through an enhanced understanding of human experience. Over the next five years we will extend the significance and impact of existing medical humanities initiatives at Durham, while also fostering new ideas and projects within four distinct strands of work. Our central goals are to develop more effective ways of understanding human experience; to build interdisciplinary research projects that will enable us to influence clinical and health research, practice and policy; to transform views about and approaches to health care research by involving multiple stakeholders; and to promote and champion our approach across disciplinary, institutional and wider research contexts. Key to achieving these ambitious and longer-term goals will be an application for Wellcome Trust Centre status to continue our work beyond the period of this award.