University of Glasgow-Invitation to a Conversation about Arts, Humanities and Health

The MHRC organises and facilitates various research development activities intended to facilitate medical humanities research in Glasgow University and the broader civic context.

The Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC) at the University of Glasgow warmly invites you on Monday 12 May April 2025 at 4pm - 5pm BST (online) for a Conversation about Arts, Humanities and Health with:

·         Prof Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)

·         Prof Jason Gill (University of Glasgow)

·         Prof Phil Withington (University of Sheffield)

Co-hosts Ian Sabroe and Dieter Declercq will talk with Cathy, Jason and Phil about Personalised and public health: learning (and not learning) from the past. Our guests share a research interest around public health, personalised health, the politics of health, but have different disciplinary training. During the conversation, we will tease out some of the similarities but also differences between past and present, and a humanities versus biomedical approach. We will explore what can we learn from each other across disciplinary approaches, and from the past to inform approaches to population health today.

The event will run as a webinar, focussing on the conversation between Cathy, Jason and Phil. Audience members will be able to write questions in a Q&A session, which Ian and Dieter will weave into the conversation.

How To Register?         

Attendance is free, but please register here. You will then receive an email with a link for the Zoom webinar.

Cathy Shrank is Professor of Tudor and Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research ranges from the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, and moves between poetry, prose, and drama. It also includes less obviously “literary” forms of writing, such as medical or educational works. That range is exemplified by the monograph on dialogue that she is currently completing for Oxford University Press