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INTERDISCIPLINARY VOICE-HEARING RESEARCH
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Welcome to the Autumn Edition of the Hearing the Voice (HtV) newsletter.
The HtV newsletter is a bi-monthly publication which contains information about the progress of our research, forthcoming workshops and conferences, and other project-related activities. If you would like to hear from us on a more regular basis, you can subscribe to our blog or follow us on Twitter.
We welcome information about relevant activities or events in your area for inclusion in this newsletter. Please forward your suggestions to the Communications, Engagement and Impact Assistant, Rebecca Doggwiler.
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2018 Edinbugh International Book Festival
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This August, we headed to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to produce a series of literary and cultural events exploring the inner voices of writers and readers. A public lecture on Muriel Spark by Pat Waugh and John Foxwell, panel discussions and interactive workshops were accompanied by an installation based on the 'Literary Voices' section of our recent exhibition on voice-hearing, Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday, and encouraged a wide range of thought-provoking conversations. The exhibition has since gone to Leeds for the annual NNMHR congress, and was shown at the 2018 Personification Across Disciplines conference.
To see how our festival activities unfolded, click here.
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Personification Across Disciplines Conference
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From September 17-19, we welcomed 130 delegates to Personification Across Disciplines (PAD), an interdisicplinary conference that explored personifying dynamics and experiences through a variety of disciplines, methods and perspectives. An exciting and varied programme covered everything from artifical intelligence to Charles Darwin, to peg dolls and AVATAR therapy, and included keynote papers from H. Porter Abbot, Guillaume Dumas, Nev Jones, Ann Taves and Tameem Antonides.
Conference reviews and videos of the keynote presentations coming soon!
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Early Career Hallucination Research (ECHR) Group
Led by Ben Alderson-Day (Durham, UK) and Cassie Hazell (University of Oxford, UK), the ECHR group is open to anyone who is actively conducting research on hallucinations or unusual sensory experiences and considers themselves to be at an “early career” stage. The ECHR group has over 50 members based in 14 different countries, and ranges from graduate research assistants through to lecturers in their first permanent position.The group holds regular online meetings and has a Slack space for group members to share papers, materials, and ideas. We are currently planning our first one-day meeting, which will be taking place in London, UK in November 2018.
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New Manual for Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences (MUSE)
Hearing the Voice has been developing the updated version of the manual for Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences (MUSE). The manual is an innovative, tablet-based toolkit designed for managing treatment of unusual experiences and hallucinations. It uses the most up-to-date research to support clinicians and service-users in identifying and understanding the different types of unusual experiences. The toolkit helps to choose the most suitable treatment options and coping strategies tailored to individual service-user experiences. We have recently run a training course for clinicians from Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, explaining the content of the new manual. We plan to test how well this treatment manual works for people who are at risk of developing psychosis.
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Free Public Lecture by Marc Caplan
On Wednesday 21 November, Marc Caplan (author of How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms) will give a lecture entitled "Double or Nothing: Divided Voices and Yiddish Silence in Georges Perec's W ou Le souvenir d'enfance". The talk will be held at Hatfield College (Birley Room) at 6PM, and is organised in collaboration with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures.
The event is free, and will be followed by a small reception. All welcome.
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Saturday Morning Science
As part of the Saturday Morning Science series of public talks run by Durham University, on September 6 HtV co-investigator Ben Alderson-Day was invited to talk about auditory hallucinations. During this interactive session, which was attended by over seventy people, Ben donned 3D glasses to speak about inner speech, tricks of the mind, and how we do (or do not) recognise our thoughts as our own. Following his lecture, attendees also had the chance to try out experiments designed by researchers from HtV!
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HtV Shortlisted for 'Health Humanities Medal'
We are proud to announce that HtV was shortlisted in the 'Best Research' category for the inaugural Health Humanities Medal. Awarded by AHRC and the Wellcome Trust, this new award recognises the people and projects that are helping to inform and transform the quality of life, health and wellbeing of the population using arts and humanities research.
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Launch of the Institute of Medical Humanities
We recently joined colleagues and guests to celebrate the launch of the Durham University Institite for Medical Humanities (IMH), the first such institute in the country. We are delighted to embark upon this new journey with IMH, and can't wait to see what the future holds!
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- Welcome to HtV -
A warm welcome to John Foxwell and Dr Guido Furci. John joins us as a Post-doctoral Research and Engagement Fellow, while Guido has been appointed as a Junior Research Fellow with HtV and the School of Modern Languages and Culture.
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Selected Publications
Alderson-Day, B., Mitrenga, K., Wilkinson, S., McCarthy-Jones, S., and Fernyhough, C. (2018). The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 48-58.
Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Kumar, S., and Fernyhough, C. (2018). Musical hallucinations, musical imagery, and earworms: A new phenomenological survey. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 83-94.
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Want to read more about Hearing the Voice?
In addition to our project website, the following online resources may be of interest:
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