The Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 Seminar Series, organized at the University of Exeter as part of the UKRI-AHRC funded ‘Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19’ project, addresses the key role that shame and stigma have played in the COVID-19 public health crisis. With talks from established and emerging experts in sociology, anthropology, history and public health, this interdisciplinary seminar series examines the effects of shame and stigma during the pandemic, considering topics such as national responses, professional practice in medicine, community resilience, public health policy and BAME experience.
THE NOCTURNISTS PODCAST COLLABORATION
The Shame and Medicine Project is excited to be collaborating with The Nocturnists, a medical storytelling podcast and community, to create an audio documentary storytelling series about Shame in Medicine. We are collecting stories from healthcare workers of all stripes, get in touch if you’re interested in sharing your story!
NEW RECRUITS
Welcome to our newest recruits – we are delighted to welcome Alice Waterson and Arthur Rose to the Shame and Medicine project team. Alice joins us as a Project Coordinator overseeing day-to-day operations, and Arthur joins the team as an Engaged Research Fellow, bringing an exciting project about shame in contemporary medical memoirs to our cultural studies work stream.
ETHICAL APPROVAL
We have now gained ethical approval from our Universities and the NHS to start collecting data. If you are interested in taking part then we would love to hear about your shame or self-conscious experiences as a patient. If you would like to find out more then contact Dr Farina Kokab at f.kokab@bham.ac.uk or register your interest to take part at www.samp.uk.
UPCOMING EVENTS
This workshop will share, analyse and reflect on issues and topics related to respect, disrespect, shame, humiliation and related concepts within healthcare and bioethics, using a multidisciplinary perspective. We invite abstracts from Early Career Scholars who would like to present a paper at one of the Workshop sessions. Presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of feedback and discussion. Visit our Call for Participants for further details.
Moving Shame is a two day workshop organised and co-facilitated by University of Exeter PhD candidate and Shame and Medicine Project Collaborator Gemma Lucas, yoga teacher/counsellor Catherine Forrester, writer/psychotherapist/creative consultant Dr Meg-John Barker and illustrator with expertise in communication, mental health and active learning, Elizabeth Fortnum.
A two day workshop based at the University of Copenhagen and co-organized with the Centre for Subjectivity Research. Shame, Health and Lived Experience is an interdisciplinary workshop that will bring together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and fields to reflect on how experiences of shame may impact on health, wellbeing and medical practice.
Shame-to-Cynicism Conversion in The Citadel and The House of God.
In Arthur Rose's (University of Exeter) research article, “Shame-to-cynicism conversion in The Citadel and The House of God,” published in Medical Humanities, he tracks the dynamics between cynicism and shame in professional practice through the novels to suggest stronger links between cynicism, so often observed among medical students, and moments of shame.
