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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World (2020)
Journal Article
Oxley, R., & Russell, A. (2020). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World. Body & Society, 26(2), 3-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x20913103

Breath, the ephemeral materialization of air at the interface of body and world, engages with and alters the quality of both. As a process of inhalation and exhalation that signals its physiological universality, breath is an invisible prerequisite f... Read More about Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World.

Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities (2020)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (2020). Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities. Body & Society, 26(2), 30-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x20902526

Breath is invisible and yet ever present and vital for living beings. The concept of invisibility in relation to breath operates in concrete and metaphorical ways to extend ideas about breath and breathlessness across disciplines, in clinical spaces... Read More about Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities.

Living in the mo(ve)ment: An ethnographic exploration of hospice patients’ experiences of participating in Tai Chi (2020)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Phoenix, C., & Burke, S. M. (2020). Living in the mo(ve)ment: An ethnographic exploration of hospice patients’ experiences of participating in Tai Chi. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 40, Article 101687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101687

Purpose: Tai Chi is increasingly being used as a complimentary therapy in hospice care to help patients self-manage multiple and complex health needs. However, currently there is limited understanding of Tai Chi from patients’ perspective, including... Read More about Living in the mo(ve)ment: An ethnographic exploration of hospice patients’ experiences of participating in Tai Chi.

‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices (2020)
Journal Article
Foxwell, J., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Woods, A. (2020). ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices. Consciousness and Cognition, 79, Article 102901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102901

Writers often report vivid experiences of hearing characters talking to them, talking back to them, and exhibiting independence and autonomy. However, systematic empirical studies of this phenomenon are almost non-existent, and as a result little is... Read More about ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices.

How do you see me? (2019)
Digital Artefact
Johnstone, F. (2019). How do you see me?. [[Media unknown]]

‘A Simple and Warm Common Humanity’: Self-Transcendence and Restless Resilience in Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology (2019)
Book Chapter
Powell, A. J. (2019). ‘A Simple and Warm Common Humanity’: Self-Transcendence and Restless Resilience in Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology. In C. Cook, & N. White (Eds.), Biblical and theological visions of resilience. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429001185-14

This chapter seeks to identify the particular influence theologian Jürgen Moltmann’s experiences of trauma and suffering during the Second World War had on his subsequent theology of hope, before then explicating how those experiences and that theolo... Read More about ‘A Simple and Warm Common Humanity’: Self-Transcendence and Restless Resilience in Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology.

Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing (2019)
Book Chapter
Tan, M., & Atkinson, S. (2019). Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing. In S. Atkinson, & R. Hunt (Eds.), Geohumanities and health (241-259). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7_14

The demographic of an ageing population in many countries is increasing the numbers of elderly who are resident in care homes especially in parts of South East Asia. The investments made into care-related activities in residential homes for the elder... Read More about Multiplicity and Encounters of Cultures of Care in Advanced Ageing.

Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: an interdisciplinary response (2019)
Journal Article
Malpass, A., Dodd, J., Feder, G., Macnaughton, J., Rose, A., Walker, O., …Carel, H. (2019). Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: an interdisciplinary response. Medical Humanities, 45(3), 294-303. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2018-011631

Health research is often bounded by disciplinary expertise. While cross-disciplinary collaborations are often forged, the analysis of data which draws on more than one discipline at the same time is underexplored. Life of Breath, a 5-year project fun... Read More about Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: an interdisciplinary response.

Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations (2019)
Journal Article
Mitrenga, K. J., Alderson-Day, B., May, L., Moffatt, J., Moseley, P., & Fernyhough, C. (2019). Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations. PLoS ONE, 14(8), Article e0221127. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221127

People rapidly make first impressions of others, often based on very little information–minimal exposure to faces or voices is sufficient for humans to make up their mind about personality of others. While there has been considerable research on voic... Read More about Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations.

GeoHumanities and Health (2019)
Book Chapter
Hunt, R., & Atkinson, S. (2019). GeoHumanities and Health. In S. Atkinson, & R. Hunt (Eds.), Geohumanities and health (1-19). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21406-7

This is an introduction to the themes and contributions in the book. The essay discusses the potential and characteristics of the hybrid space of the GeoHumanities and the placing of health with this space. We consider the ways in which openings and... Read More about GeoHumanities and Health.

Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations? (2019)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., Watson, A., Bernini, M., Moseley, P., & Alderson-Day, B. (2019). Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations?. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1665. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01665

Interacting with imaginary companions (ICs) is now considered a natural part of childhood for many children, and has been associated with a range of positive developmental outcomes. Recent research has explored how the phenomenon of ICs in childhood... Read More about Imaginary companions, inner speech and auditory verbal hallucinations: What are the relations?.

Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing (2019)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Bagnall, A., Corcoran, R., South, J., & Curtis, S. (2020). Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21(5), 1903-1921. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00146-2

This paper explores the ways in which community wellbeing is, and could be, related to individual subjective wellbeing by mapping current practice, teasing out the assumptions underlying a dominant approach and flagging neglected issues. The notion o... Read More about Being well together: individual subjective and community wellbeing.

The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people (2019)
Journal Article
Hadden, L. M., Alderson‐Day, B., Jackson, M., Fernyhough, C., & Bentall, R. P. (2020). The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 93(1), 122-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12234

Objectives: Psychological models of voice‐hearing propose that auditory‐verbal hallucinations occur when inner speech is attributed to a source external to the self. Approximately half of the world's population is multilingual, and the extent to whic... Read More about The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people.

The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease (2019)
Journal Article
Oxley, R., Harrison, S. L., Rose, A., & Macnaughton, J. (2019). The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 16, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/1479973119847659

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is recommended for all individuals living with a lung condition and chronic breathlessness. This article considers how adopting an interdisciplinary, medical humanities approach to the term ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ mig... Read More about The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease.