Write the Future! Competition Winner
As part of the Being Human Festival 2017 Dr Hannah Tweed and Dr Anna McFarlane held a creative writing workshop, ‘Write the Future!’, to encourage young writers to think about science fiction, medicine, and...
As part of the Being Human Festival 2017 Dr Hannah Tweed and Dr Anna McFarlane held a creative writing workshop, ‘Write the Future!’, to encourage young writers to think about science fiction, medicine, and...
As part of the 2017 Being Human festival (@BeingHumanFest), Glasgow University’s library is hosting Lost Limbs and Posthuman Enhancement. Organised by Dr Anna McFarlane, previously research assistant on the Science Fiction and the Medical...
Anna McFarlane, research assistant on the Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project, discusses her new project. I am very pleased to announce that I have successfully been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship...
Our research assistant Anna McFarlane gave a talk today as part of the University of Glasgow’s War and Medicine Lunchtime Talks series entitled “‘Becoming Acquainted With All That Pain’: Naomi Mitchison’s VAD Nursing in...
The special issue of the journal BMJ Medical Humanities co-edited by Dr Gavin Miller and myself has now gone live. It offers strong papers that together showcase the fruitful potential to be found at...
It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of our short story competition. These winners were chosen by award-winning science fiction author Adam Roberts and will appear, alongside our other shortlisted authors, in...
I am very pleased to announce that the shortlist for our short story competition has been chosen. Thank you to everyone who entered; we were overwhelmed by the number of high-quality stories we received...
A big thank you to everyone who came along to our conference, it was a pleasure to have you all at the University of Glasgow and to see the breadth of thought that’s currently...
We were hoping to announce the results of our short story competition at our conference on the 4th of July but, unfortunately, we no longer think we’ll quite be ready for that date. However,...
We’re pleased to announce that we’re now opening suggestions for our online bibliography of sources in Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities. We want your help to add to the database, and also to...
We are pleased to announce that registration for our conference, to be held on Monday the 4th of July, is now open via Eventbrite. As well as having a day packed with academic presentations...