Yesterday, some of the Hematopolitics team visited the Blood Donor Centre in Leeds (117 The Headrow). The brilliant team showed us the ins and outs of blood donation and treated us to a special tour of the building. We even got a free biscuit as part of our visit!

🩸 CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS 🩸 Our brilliant PhD student Sarah Chadwick is looking for participants for her project on blood donation and social difference. If you're of Caribbean or Pakistani heritage, please consider reaching out via the email address on the poster!

Great opportunity to be involved in important research on contemporary blood donation! Please share with colleagues, friends, and family.

Working on a video about historical smells means overcoming my phobia of mannequins by getting up close and personal with John the butcher at work 🤢

writing a eulogy while simultaneously researching cultural attitudes towards the early modern penis wbu x

me completing the work ergonomics training

Delighted to share that my new article is now out with Cultural and Social History! It asks what made a shrine legitimate in early modern Catholicism arguing for the vital role of emotional practices for establishing spiritual certainty. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Call for Bilingual University of Leeds Student Volunteers (Korean & English) 📢 Are you interested in NGOs, healthcare, or translation and interpretation? Join our University of Leeds’ international research team, Hematopolitics, for an exciting project! Please share!

We’re seeking bilingual volunteers (Korean & English) to support Korea Leukemia Patients’ Organization members during their UK visit, including a presentation at the Thackray Museum’s special exhibition on blood donation in Leeds and an exchange workshop with Blood Cancer UK.

We now have an account over on BlueSky! For the time being, our plan is to continue running both accounts, but please do give us a follow over there!

If you’re excited to contribute to meaningful international projects, we’d love to hear from you! Please send your CV and a 100-word (English or 200-250 characters in Korean) description of your motivation for joining by 30th November to Dr. Jieun Kim (details via poster).

*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley Humanities. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-editor…

probably the wildest thing I've ever put on here but do any early modernists know of any references to what a penis was supposed to look/smell/feel(/taste) like and what the consequences were when it didn't conform to societal norms??? pls help !!

NOTICE: We have now permanently moved to our other social media account and will no longer be using X to share updates on the project. Please do follow us over there!

I'm looking to share some of my new research on the moral and medical dimensions of breastfeeding and breast cancer (1600-1900). If you know of any seminar series, conferences, or societies that might be interested in having me present, please let me know!

Spending my Monday researching the possibility of using smells to diagnose cancer. Body odour remains a powerful tool for identifying and treating serious illnesses, even if not perceptible to the human nose. verywellhealth.com/what-cancer-sm…

Is there such a thing as a medical humanities ECR/PGR community or WIP network? does anyone know of any groups that come under this purview?

A quick update for the people still on here - in October, I'll be joining Durham Institute for Medical Humanities as a Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities! I'll be working in the Affective Experiences Lab, where I'll be developing my research on the sensescapes of cancer, 1700-1950.

In other news, I've also been awarded a Visiting Early Career Research Fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute in Manchester, and today, I signed my contract with Manchester University Press to write my book on Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London!

A very niche request - does anyone have any references to people 'sucking' poison/disease/infection out of someone's body? Looking particularly at 17/18c. Thanks!