Medical Humanities Early-Career Advisory Group

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This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Early-Career Awards.

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This advisory group shortlists candidates for Wellcome Early-Career Awards.

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Its remit covers applications that aim to transform understandings of health, healthcare, and wellbeing in their social, historical, and cultural contexts. It includes all disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as (but not limited to): history; literary and cultural studies; Classics; philosophy; creative arts and design; bioarchaeology. It includes all methodologies and approaches, as long as the aim is to generate new knowledge and understandings related to health. Examples include, but are not limited to: archival research; textual, visual, and audio-visual analysis; digital humanities; creative or practice-led methodologies; interviews and oral histories; conceptual analysis; archaeological analysis of material culture or organic matter. 

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  • research on experiences of health and healthcare, health practice and/or policy, and the generation of medical knowledge
  • research on cultural representations of illness and wellbeing and their reception and impact
  • research on health, healthcare, and wellbeing in their social, cultural, and political contexts in any time-period or in any geographical location
  • the development of new methodologies, techniques, and conceptual frameworks in the arts and humanities related to research on health, healthcare, and wellbeing. 
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We will publish membership details in the autumn. 

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Find out about one of our advisory groups that shortlists candidates for Wellcome's Early-Career Awards.
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