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Angela Woods is Professor of Medical Humanities at Durham University, with affiliations including the Department of English Studies, Institute for Medical Humanities, and Wellcome Trust-funded Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. She has led major initiatives like Hearing the Voice and the Medical Humanities exhibition, with expertise in voice-hearing, narrative medicine, and interdisciplinary research.
Research interests: Critical Medical Humanities, Phenomenology/Hermeneutics of voice-hearing, Narrative approaches to mental health, and Interdisciplinary epistemology. Her work bridges clinical, cultural, and philosophical perspectives on psychosis and embodied self-experience.
Publication trends include 15 recent articles focusing on voice-hearing phenomenology, narrative medicine, interdisciplinary methodology, and the intersection of spirituality with mental health. Key themes are personification in hallucinations, temporal analysis in pandemics, and sociocultural dimensions of psychiatric diagnoses.
Scientific contributions:
- 2020: Series Editor, Bloomsbury Critical Interventions
- 2019: Chair, Wellcome Trust Interview Committee
- 2015: Wellcome Trust Expert Review Group
- 2014: Taxonomy of auditory hallucinations
- 2013: Rethinking patient testimonies
- 2011: Limits of narrative coherence
She supervises PhD students in interdisciplinary projects across Psychology, Anthropology, and Clinical Practice, and has developed educational programs like Durham's Medical Humanities curriculum.
