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I passed my viva two weeks ago and received the award of PhD degree today! Four years exploring embodied life-writing via the lenses of #medhum, #intermediality, and the art of conversation, it is finally official! Extremely proud of myself and grateful!

What a rewarding year at The Polyphony! I have been inspired by our amazing contributors and learned so much from my colleagues about editing & communication & intercultural collaboration. Excited for another year of great adventures!

The Intercultural Dialogue theme of The Polyphony invites guests from different cultural & national backgrounds to critically examine the centrality of #MedHum in the UK and North America. We hope to introduce concepts and narratives about #MedHum in under-represented cultures.

So I’m commissioning posts exploring #RareDisease and East Asia for the World Rare Disease Day Feb 2023. Key debates, history, stigmas… Please share this with people who might be interested in writing one, or DM me!

What an amazing experience working with Dawn! Want to know about the accessibility and inclusivity of the Calm Room? What sort of gift of empowerment and healing can we take from the autistic realm? Give it a read!

Are you an arts practice-based #MedicalHumanities (or adjacent) researcher? Want to write for The Polyphony about it? Please get in touch - looking to start/expand conversations about arts practice and methodology in the field. So much great work going on atm!

“Critical Perspectives on Art Therapy” the next instalment of the fantastic ⁦Confabulations⁩ series is online this Wednesday 8 Feb 6pm GMT. All welcome, tickets free through Eventbrite confabulationsdotorg.wordpress.com/current-progra…

Cat Chong interlaces poetry and prose to investigate conceptions of care and pride around disability and identity. Also excited to introduce in this post the newly published Not Without Us, the 1st Singapore critical disability studies collection! victor zhuang

#SleepAwarenessWeek While so much has been done in the Western context, I am curious about how we can attend to #sleephealth in other social context. Here, Brigitte Steger brings us insights into sleep vulnerability in Japanese tsunami shelters.

What an exciting programme from our friends at Durham Health & Social Theory Group! 🤗

Exploring its relation to poetry, James McGrath celebrates slowness as something of neurological and social importance to autistic people.

'Constructing Sites: Surveying Scenes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration' Angela Woods & Des Fitzgerald invite contributions to a Bloomsbury Academic edited collection thepolyphony.org/2023/04/20/con…

Super excited! Do tune in and join the conversation with The Polyphony editors on publishing, editorship, outreach and engagement in the #medhum! #nnmhr2023

Big thanks to everyone who joined us at #NNMHR2023 this afternoon and our editors Dr Anna Jamieson, Nicole Xuan Chen, Aly F & Dr Chase Ledin for a great convo about MedHums editing and outreach! If you couldn't make today's panel, you can learn more about contributing here. (1/6)

Tracing the socio-historical contexts in which she coins the term "tōjisha manga", Yoshiko Okuyama further explores how this cluster of Japanese comics narrates mental health experience from an emic perspective. thepolyphony.org/2023/05/03/toj…