The LivingBodiesObjects Research Assistants – each affiliated with a different partner organisation as part of the project – have been busy! Three have published reflective accounts of their time on the project with leading medical humanities blog, The Polyphony, while another has led the development of a new digital exhibition.
Dr Yaxin Luo, Research Assistant for the partnership with Interplay, the National Sensory Theatre, and writes on the potential for creative practice to support co-production with students who have additional needs. Her piece includes many of the methods and prompts which underpinned our work.
Our second residency was with the Blueberry Academy. In her piece, Research Assistant Dr Dey Ricketts recalls how producing easy read resources made new kinds of engagement possible. These broadened the scope of our collaboration with Blueberry’s trainees and made the activities more inclusive and accessible.
Dr Rachel Garratt, Research Assistant working with The Bhopal Medical Appeal, reflects on the experience of taking up the baton from her predecessors for our third residency. She draws especially on how the project’s structure and values intersected, and the impact that had on someone joining the project part-way through.
Meanwhile, Dr Claire Turner, who has had her plate full as a Society for Renaissance Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, has also been developing “digital materials “Flow”, a digital exhibition, to accompany the Thackray Museum of Medicine‘s new temporary display – “Blood: Ties and Tensions” – which runs until 29 June 2025. Dr Turner was Research Assistant for the Thackray Museum’s residency.