Decentring the Medical Humanities: ECR workshop
In partnership with the University of Stirling, the NNMHR is delighted to announce a call for applications to join a two-way ECR workshop on Decentring the Medical Humanities (29-30 October 2026, University of Stirling).
The workshops aims to explore ways of challenging a Western-centric focus in the medical humanities by exchanging ideas and deepening the relevant knowledge of PhD students who take or wish to take decentring/decolonising approaches in their research. The workshop builds on, and aims to contribute to the paradigm of the Critical Medical Humanities, which is working to illuminate social hierarchies in health, healthcare, and health campaigns (Viney, Callard, Woods, 2015; Whitehead and Woods, 2022). It incorporates non-western perspectives in an effort to comprehensively include the different voices of activists globally. Such research dovetails with recent work in Queer and Transgender Studies, which challenges the ‘West’ as necessarily the reference point for notions of gender and sexuality globally (e.g., Aizura 2018). Thus, the workshop aims to encompass research explicitly addressing perspectives from the Global South and/or racialised minorities in the Global North.
Full details here: https://nnmh.org.uk/decentring-the-medical-humanities/