Research
The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities creates conditions for conducting, coordinating, and inspiring interdisciplinary research in the medical humanities. In autumn 2025, we will welcome about 40 affiliated staff members who all share our passion for medical humanities.
This website will be updated with our incoming affiliated staff members' research initiatives - until then, we highlight other ongoing research here.
The concepts of empathy and compassion are central by virtue of their importance to both the patient and the one(s) caring for him/her.
The Centre’s research theme on empathy and compassion
We conduct continuous analyses to be able to identify researchable knowledge gaps and possible research collaborations.
The Centre’s current research projects
Medical Humanities at Pufendorf IAS
Lund University values interdisciplinary research. The Pufendorf Institute for Advances Studies is an incubator for new interdisciplinary research initiatives. In recent years, medical humanities has been a constant "visitor" at the institute and benefited from the opportunities to pursue a wide range of research activities.
- Next Generation Healthscapes - ASG, Pufendorf IAS - Lund University (started autumn 2024), which now also has been accepted for a Pufendorf Theme (starting autumn 2025)
- The Art of Supervision: Interdisciplinary perspectives on supervision (starting autumn 2025)
- Storytelling – from cell to society | The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies (started spring 2025)
- Empathy and compassion – so important yet so complex ASG, Pufendorf IAS - Lunds universitet (started autumn 2021)
- Litteraturläsning och hälsa - ASG Pufendorf IAS - Lund University (in Swedish) (started spring 2021)
Contact
Åsa Thormählen
Coordinator
Asa [dot] Thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Asa[dot]Thormahlen[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)