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Veronica Heney

@veronicaheney.bsky.social

Research Fellow at Durham University, exploring narratives and experiences of madness, mental illness, and mental distress. Interested in stories and why we tell them.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️

Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How are doctors portrayed in memoirs, television, and popular culture – and why does it matter? Join us for a thought-provoking hybrid talk with Danielle Spencer exploring narrative medicine. 📅 25 June 📍 Durham University/Online 🎟️ Free Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heroic-doc...

Heroic Doctors?: From Medical Memoirs to The Pitt

A hybrid talk by Danielle Spencer about the contemporary genre of physician-author memoirs and their representations in popular media.

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Laura Salisbury@laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I know it's usual for a book to be published before it's launched, but we are having an early launch of our co-authored book - Waiting Times: Crisis, Chronicity and Care - at Birkbeck's Social Science week. Please do sign up if you'd like to attend in person/virtually. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Social Sciences Festival 2026: Waiting Times Book Launch - Professor Lisa Baraitser

Social Sciences Festival 2026: Waiting Times Book Launch - Professor Lisa Baraitser

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Stop Oxevision@stopoxevision.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A NHS Trust was ordered to pay compensation to a patient over use of Oxevision (LIO) - what does this mean for other Trusts? What does the guidance from NHS England and CQC say about its use? Plus, read our letter to NHSE asking them to take action stopoxevision.com/2026/04/29/t...

Trust ordered to pay compensation to patient over use of Oxevision - Stop Oxevision

An NHS Trust has had to pay out to a patient after she complained to the Ombudsman about the use of Oxevision during her time as an inpatient. This is not unique - all Trusts are at risk of having to ...

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Veronica Heney@veronicaheney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So exciting to see this! @drflewis.bsky.social and I have an essay in here about royal women, the visual politics of madness, and mad relationality. We're so delighted to be included among such august company!

Ben Doyle@bendoyle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great to see the jacket proof for this finalized! A wide-ranging, future-focused overview of madness in literature and visual culture - this book makes a huge contribution to literary and visual culture studies as well as mad studies. More details: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/madness-i...

Image shows the jacket proof for the book 'Madness in Literature and Visual Culture' by anna six. Jacket depicts a tornado rendered in charcoal, billowing up to the top left of the jacket. The title is in block caps in yellow in the top left.
Dr Beatriz Pichel@beapichel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist

Dr Beatriz Pichel@beapichel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Sharing again the next online seminar, this time linking our website! empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o... While consent always feature in conversations on ethics, how it can be applied or rethought in historical contexts leads to more questions than answers, as we'll see!

Veronica Heney@veronicaheney.bsky.social · last yr.

Really delighted to share this paper drawing on data from my PhD to explore the relation between care, texts, & self-harm. Particularly, I draw out how my participants engaged in active, creative, & relational viewing/reading practices to enable care for self-harm: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Creating Care for People Who Self-Harm through Transformation of Aesthetic Objects - Journal of Medical Humanities

The role of fiction in enabling care for people who self-harm is primarily framed as a relation of protection through absence or avoidance. It is frequently suggested that fiction should avoid depicti...

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Veronica Heney@veronicaheney.bsky.social · last yr.

This is an urgent and incisive post by my wonderful friend and colleague @kacheston.bsky.social, who writes bravely and convincingly about ME/CFS and about the flawed Opinion piece, regrettably published by the BMJ - please do read and share Katharine’s response

Katharine Cheston@kacheston.bsky.social · last yr.

I've submitted a rapid response to this BMJ Opinion piece - speaking from my dual experience as both researcher and 'recovered ME/CFS patient' (not a term I'd choose to employ).

Veronica Heney@veronicaheney.bsky.social · last yr.

As always, my wonderful friend & colleague @courtneybuckler.bsky.social is wise and principled - I highly recommend these reflections on evidence, expertise, and institutional processes

National Survivor User Network@nsunnews.bsky.social · last yr.

"I was fuelled by the responsibility I feel to the many, many hundreds of Mad and Disabled people I have the honour to work and organise alongside." @courtneybuckler.bsky.social on giving “evidence”: reflections on the Community Mental Health Services Inquiry. www.nsun.org.uk/news/on-givi...