by Hearing the Voice | Sep 30, 2015 | HtV Research, Ideas & Opinions
Dr Jennifer Hodgson, lead researcher on our Writers’ Inner Voices study, writes: The students I teach, although very able literary critics, sometimes need reminding that the characters in the books that they are interpreting are not, in fact, real people....
by Hearing the Voice | Sep 25, 2015 | Conferences, Seminars, Lectures & Workshops, HtV Research
Hearing the Voice is delighted to welcome visiting speakers and delegates from the Academy of Finland to a two-day workshop entitled ‘An Exchange of Minds: So what do you believe?’, which will take place at the Palatine Centre at Durham University on 28-29 September...
by Hearing the Voice | Sep 16, 2015 | Conferences, Seminars, Lectures & Workshops, HtV Research, Reviews
Hearing the Voice was delighted to present a special plenary panel at Medicine of Words: Literature, Medicine and Theology in the Middle Ages, a conference at St Anne’s College Oxford, 11–12 September 2015. The aim of the conference was to examine medieval views of...
by Hearing the Voice | Jul 24, 2015 | Cultural & Media Events, HtV Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR-U5pTEv4s Congratulations to early music ensemble The Clerks, who have been shortlisted for the Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize 2015 for their work Tales from Babel. The Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize is awarded to a creative project...
by Hearing the Voice | Jul 22, 2015 | HtV Research, Ideas & Opinions
Jennifer Hodgson, lead researcher on our Writers’ Inner Voices project, writes: Flow is that pleasurable state of complete absorption in the task at hand. It’s a kind of deep focus, where all else falls away, the mind stops its wondering, and you become...
by Hearing the Voice | Jun 25, 2015 | HtV Publications, HtV Research, Ideas & Opinions
One of the overarching objectives of the Hearing the Voice project has been to try and answer the ‘what is like?’ questions; to develop a richer understanding of the experiences of hearing voices. To this end we have conducted a range of investigations – some...