Professional Service
The MHRC and its affiliates contribute to the wider medical humanities community through various forms of professional service.
Agenda setting in the medical humanities through membership of the RSE Young Academy for Scotland (Megan Coyer) and Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities Discipline+ training panels (Gavin Miller).
Editorial and peer review work for major academic publishers, and for field-leading journals such as BMJ Medical Humanities, Journal of Medical Humanities, Journal of Historical Geography, Literature and Medicine, Social Science and Medicine, and Transcultural Psychiatry.
Peer review for major funding bodies and initiatives, including
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (Gavin Miller)
- UKRI/AHRC Peer Review College, including COVID-19 Expert Review Group and COVID-19 Rapid Response Panel (Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Gavin Miller, Ben White, Sofia Xenofontos)
- Leverhulme Trust (Megan Coyer, Gavin Miller)
- Scottish Graduate School in the Arts and Humanities Doctoral Training Partnership (Gavin Miller)
- Wellcome Trust (Megan Coyer, Gavin Miller)
- Royal Society of Edinburgh, Arts & Humanities Review Committee (Megan Coyer)