🎚️[Turns excitement-level up to 11] My brilliant colleague Dr Rebecca Jackson @beccajackson.bsky.social is co-editing this collection on the philosophical, historical and cultural dynamics of measurement. Do consider submitting a chapter proposal! 🎚️
The @durhamimh.bsky.social are sponsoring a hybrid event on Interdisciplinary Approaches to AI, asking "What happens to language, thought, agency, and creativity when machines begin to (or appear to) speak, sort, and make for themselves?" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interdisci...
Last week we were delighted to welcome over 50 attendees to our Creative Facilitation event, where we discussed how creative facilitation has been used in a variety of different organisational settings.
Read our event round-up and testimonials👇
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A clean setup with the #RatsOfConfluence, complete with sticky wall, singing bowl and multicoloured card. Brilliantly timed ahead of Thursday’s Creative Facilitation event www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
What kind of reader are you? On #WorldBookDay, take a deep dive into the mysteries of the reading imagination with @thereaderbank.bsky.social
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A major intervention in the field of dream studies has just been published, edited by Marco Bernini & @aldersonday.bsky.social. 'Dreams, Narrative and Liminal Cognition' is a collection of essays shedding light on the experiential qualities of dreams 💤
Read more:
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What happens to language, thought, agency, and creativity when machines begin to (or appear to) speak, sort, and make for themselves?
A major intervention in the field of dream studies has just been published, edited by Marco Bernini and Ben Alderson-Day from our Institute for Medical Humanities.
And another bites the dust?
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
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I’m so delighted to announce my new Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Re-knowing Self-harm’. I’m deeply grateful to my collaborators, including SIFT & @makespaceco.bsky.social, and the @durham.ac.uk Dept of Sociology & @durhamimh.bsky.social who will host the project ✨
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Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
We're pleased to announce this collection of contributions to The Polyphony from attendees at the 2025 International PhD School on Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities, which took place in Durham in March 2025.
📖 Read the collection 👇
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🚨 Call for Abstracts: The New Measurement Heretics
We welcome proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology, and anthropology of measurement who would like to address themes around formal & informal measurement concepts ⚖️
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We invite proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of measurement for a new edited collection. Deadline 15 June 2026.
