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The steep path isn’t the only thing Caroline Butterwick has to navigate on her Lakeland hike. Always aware of other people’s expectations, she continually monitors how her disability might seem to strangers.

Disabled people have suffered more than most during Covid-19, but there is still a chance to build a kinder society. Dolly Sen explores whether we will come together, or allow more brutal disparities to develop in the worsening recession.

When her daughter decided blonde was best, a red flag went up for Pragya Agarwal. In this essay, the behavioural scientist discusses childhood development, race and representation.

Discover our new display on HIV and AIDS that brings together Gideon Mendel’s photographs and stories from activists worldwide to explore care, stigma and the fight for treatment.

Discover our new display on HIV and AIDS that brings together Gideon Mendel’s photographs and stories from activists worldwide to explore care, stigma and the fight for treatment.

In the final part of her investigation into lithium, Laura Simpkins faces a dilemma – should she put her own mental health or other people and the planet first?

Covid-19 left Laura Simpkins out of work and living back with her parents. She now had time to restart her research into her medication, but was she mad to continue?

Laura Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.

The origins of the lithium Laura Simpkins swallows daily are unclear. If we don’t know the provenance of our pills, how can we make informed decisions about them?

The more questions Laura Simpkins asked about lithium, the more she realised how little is known about this powerful drug and how it affects our mental health.

In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.

Can you daydream too much? Excessive daydreamer Laura Simpkins reflects on studies into “maladaptive daydreaming” and asks why so few fellow dreamers seem to be men.

Laura Simpkins is tired of hearing how much her mental ill health costs the country. What about how much it costs her?

Discover more about our exhibition ‘Tenderness and Rage’ on one of our BSL-interpreted tours.

Information to help you plan and prepare for your visit to 'The Coming of Age'.

Join us for a day of panel discussions, tours and workshops exploring the questions raised by our exhibition ‘The Coming of Age’.

Join us for an evening inspired by ‘The Coming of Age’ exhibition, with performances, talks, workshops, music and tours which challenge expectations of ageing.

Residents from 2021 to 2024, Land Body Ecologies, led by creative arts studio Invisible Flock, were a global transdisciplinary network exploring the relationship between mental health and ecosystem health.

Dynamic transdisciplinary space where creative minds collaborate on projects exploring medicine, life and art.

Residents from 2018 to 2021, Heart n Soul are an award-winning creative arts company led by people with and without disabilities and autistic people. They explored productivity, difference and what it is to be ‘normal’.