Training

CIRMH offers early career research training for PhD students, postdocs and teaching fellows at Birkbeck in the Summer Term each year. Below there is an indication of the workshops we have run in the past. In 2025 we will be collaborating with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research to support a Wellcome Institutional Fund for Research Culture network for ECRs working on co-production in health research, including a reading group and film series. If you are an ECR at Birkbeck working in the area of health and want to join the ERC Co-Production network, or discuss particular training that we can offer, get in touch (email s.marks@bbk.ac.uk)

We also run a twice-termly ‘Critical Mental Health Studies’ seminar for Birkbeck PhD students and early career researchers from across disciplines, to present their work or discuss key readings/sources. If you’d like to be added to the mailing list for this contact s.marks@bbk.ac.uk

If you are looking for Masters level opportunities at Birkbeck, full- or part-time, you may be interested in the MA Medical & Health Humanities, MRes Psychology, MSc Psychology, MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, or MA Psychoanalytic Studies.

Indicative PhD/ECR training courses (2025 dates tbc)

Preparing book proposals in the humanities and social sciences

Preparing postdoctoral applications in the humanities and social sciences

Submitting articles for peer review in the humanities and social sciences

These training events are open to Birkbeck PhD students, Postdoctoral Researchers and Early Career Scholars working on fields relating to mental health and the medical humanities. Numbers will be capped to allow for discussion.

Previous events:

AHRC CHASE Doctoral Training Event ‘Ethics, Reflexivity and Writing in the Medical Humanities’ 28th-30th June 2021 (co-organised by Birkbeck, University of East Anglia and University of Kent)