Reconstituted in 2024, the WG organised a Medical and Health Humanities Research Survey that year, to provide insight into the breadth and depth of Irish humanities research related to the areas of health and medicine. Download the final report which is based on responses to a call from WG members and includes details of publications, research grants and work in this area from 138 scholars in this field.
As a direct follow on from this research, the WG organised a Doctoral Training Workshop in May 2025. Boundary Objects & Collaborative Working - aimed at those pursuing, or planning to pursue, doctoral research in Medical and Health Humanities. Experts in the field of medical and health humanities discussed this growing and vibrant area of research, outlining opportunities in academic publication and development.
Members
Prof Desmond O'Neill WG Co-Chair -TCD doneill@tcd.ie
Prof Des Fitzgerald WG Co-Chair - UCC desfitzgerald@ucc.ie
Dr Juliana Adelman DCU juliana.adelman@dcu.ie
Dr Yianna Liatsos UL yianna.liatsos@ul.ie
Dr Loïc Bourdeau MU Loic.Bourdeau@mu.ie
Dr Julie Rodgers MU Julie.Rodgers@mu.ie
Dr Kate Byrne UU k.byrne@ulster.ac.uk
Dr Conor Heffernan UU c.heffernan@ulster.ac.uk
Prof Catherine Cox UCD catherine.cox@ucd.ie
Dr Maria Stuart UCD maria.stuart@ucd.ie
Dr. Anna Gasperini UG anna.gasperini@universityofgalway.ie
Dr Frances McCormack UG frances.mccormack@universityofgalway.ie
Dr Dawn Murphy SETU dawn.murphy@setu.ie
Dr Mark Doyle SETU Mark.Doyle@setu.ie
Dr Claire Cullen SETU claire.cullen@setu.ie
Prof Mary Cosgrove TCD cosgroma@tcd.ie
Ms Mandy Lee TCD mslee@tcd.ie
Prof. Brendan Dooley UCC B.Dooley@ucc.ie
Dr Paul Murphy QUB p.murphy@qub.ac.uk
IHA Doctoral Training: Medical and Health Humanities
15 May 2025 / 15 May 2025
Location: Dublin
Medical and Health Humanities
Published: 27 Nov 2024
Integrating arts and humanities into scholarship on ageing
Posted: 24 Jun 2022
Desmond O'Neill
‘The Humanities and Me’ is a series of short reflective pieces by invited authors.
