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Centre for Medical Humanities Successes

posted on March 1, 2025

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By CentreForMedicalHumanities.org Research Team | Last verified: September 2026

Research Summary: Durham Centre for Medical Humanities

Topic: Medical Humanities Research and Arts in Health
Key Research Focus: Evidence-based impact research in arts in health; hearing voices research and psychosis
Notable Achievements: Anni Raw awarded first-ever prize for best student-authored paper; Angela Woods received Faculty Celebrating Excellence Award
Funding: Strategic Award from the Wellcome Trust for ‘Hearing the Voice' project
Evidence Grade: Strong — ground-breaking research recognized by institutional and major research council awards
Research Approach: Interdisciplinary collaboration integrating humanities perspectives with psychology and health sciences to advance understanding of arts-based interventions
Key Personnel: Anni Raw (PhD student), Angela Woods, Charles Fernyhough (Department of Psychology)

I am delighted to report that members of the Durham Centre for Medical Humanities have recently been in receipt of University awards for their work. On Wednesday 21 November I attended the Durham University Queens Campus Prize Giving at which Anni Raw (PhD student) was awarded the first ever prize for the best paper published by a student as first author during the course of PhD study. The paper (A hole in the heart: confronting the drive for evidence-based impact research in arts in health) can be accessed here. This award was given by the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing and is an acknowledgement of the ground-breaking nature of Anni’s research.

In addition, my colleague Angela Woods has been awarded a Faculty of Social Science and Health ‘Celebrating Excellence’ Award at a recent University dinner. Angela was the key player along with Charles Fernyhough (Department of Psychology) in the achievement of the recent Strategic Award from the Wellcome Trust entitled ‘Hearing the Voice’, and has established herself at the forefront of cutting edge research in our field.

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