Research Networking
The MHRC has run or participated in a variety of Research Networks supported by a diversity of funders, including Wellcome Trust, AHRC, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. These important activities enable us to
- initiate and support research collaborations, including with museums and collections
- identify and support outstanding doctoral and postdoctoral researchers
- learn about, and shape, the cutting edge of the medical humanities
- feed into conversations about the funding landscape for the medical humanities
From 2019-2023, the MHRC (Gavin Miller, Megan Coyer, Cristin Sarg) directed the Wellcome Trust funded Glasgow Medical Humanities Network, which brought together and enhanced medical humanities across universities and collections in the city of Glasgow. As well as bringing together researchers across the city via its directories, the Network offered regular events - particularly for early-career researchers - and a competitive Seed Scheme for small scoping awards.
From 2014-present, the MHRC (Gavin Miller, Megan Coyer) has been a Steering Group member of the Wellcome Trust funded Northern Network for Medical Humanities, a which acts as a hub across the North of Engand and Scotland for academic researchers in the medical humanities as well as practitioners, artists and others.
From 2016-2018, the MHRC (Gavin Miller) participated in HAIVAIRN, a network that explored the use of visualisation approaches to assist in the prevention of Healthcare Acquired Infections. The network was supported by an AHRC Research Network grant, and was directed by researchers in Glasgow School of Art.
From 2015-2019, the MHRC (Megan Coyer, Gavin Miller, David Shuttleton, Hannah Tweed) directed the Wellcome Trust funded Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network via a website that acted as a forum to connect individuals working across a range of disciplines and practices at the University of Glasgow. The Network's directories have been transferred to the new city-wide Network, where they will be updated alongside new registrants.
From 2013-14, the MHRC (Gavin Miller) and the University of Edinburgh (Alette Willis, School of Health in Social Science) ran the funded by a Royal Society of Edinburgh award for Research Workshops in the Arts and Humanities. This project support a series of interactive masterclasses followed by a later presentation wherein leading researchers from across the United Kingdom introduced participants to the varied disciplines and methodologies of the health humanities.
In 2012, the MHRC (Gavin Miller) directed a scoping project, , supported by an AHRC Exploratory Award under the Science and Culture Theme. The project brought together a number of collaborators from different disciplines and backgrounds, and asked them to generate and reflect upon what they saw as fundamental questions for the field of transcultural psychiatry. The results are curated at the project blog.
From 2011-2013, the MHRC (David Shuttleton, Gavin Miller) directed the funded by a Royal Society of Edinburgh award for Research Networks in the Arts and Humanities. This foundational endeavour was a way of bringing together and consolidating medical humanities as a field within Scotland. It laid the groundwork for future networking by building a small core team of collaborators, and it began a conversation in the medical humanities through a series of workshops, symposia, and public lectures.