It’s true. We have been discussing if we should put this blog to bed for good, since it and Sleeping Beauty seem to have similar level of activity. But let’s give it (the blog) the kiss of life again, shall we?
It is nearly impossible to do a comprehensive re-cap of all the things that have happened here during the last couple of years: Let’s just say “It hasn’t been boring”. During 2025 the Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities has (so far)
- Bragged about our comprehensive report (made in 2024, in Swedish – we’re sorry…)
- Got a new board
- Got a new kind of funding
- Got new guidelines including new assignments (short term and long term)
- Got new rules for affiliation, i e we have no staff employed at the centre (but wait and see)
- Held on to the Centre Management (Martin Garwicz is centre manager and Katarina Bernhardsson is assistant manager. Johan Mårtensson is also part of the management team and Åsa Thormählen too.)
Easiest way to sift through all of this is to go to our website. Start here:
Our mission and organisation | Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities
The centre has also celebrated two generous donations from the Birgit Rausing Foundation for Medical Humanities – one to ensure a professor in Medical Humanities with focus on empathy and compassion in a clinical context (based at the Faculty of Medicine) and one for a five year project in Narratives in Medicine (based at the Joint faculties for Humanities and Theology).
All the networking and hard work during the past years with making Medical Humanities and the centre known to the world (well, at least at Lund University) has truly paid off: On Monday, we’re welcoming former and new affiliated staff members! Our crew is not only huge (soon 40 people), but also a wonderful display of interdisciplinarity at it’s best.
Affiliated staff | Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities
So. A collective deep breath: First we’ll plunge into the Swedish summer (we all check out around mid July, back again late August. Yes we do appreciate being Swedish Government employees) and then we’ll take Manhattan. No, sorry, the autumn term.