Podcasts and videos

Detail of banner for the Oxplore video. The full banner reads: "Victorian vs Modern Sleep Researchers: Their Concerns & Curiosities"

What unites Victorian and modern sleep researchers? -- An Oxplore Podcast

What unites Victorian and modern sleep researchers? A full discussion with Prof. Sally Shuttleworth (English Faculty)...

What unites Victorian and modern sleep researchers? A full discussion with Prof. Sally Shuttleworth (English Faculty) and Prof. Russell Foster (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neur...

What unites Victorian and modern sleep researchers? A full discussion with Prof. Sally Shuttleworth (English Faculty) and Prof. Russell Foster (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2 October 2019

Photograph of projection from Victorian Light Night

Podcast: Victorian Light Night, an interview with The Projection Studio

How do you turn five years of research into a spectacular light and sound show?

1 April 2019

Podcast - Victorian Light Night: Collaborating with Cheney School

Today we released a podcast detailing our work with Cheney School as part of Victorian Light Night.

16 December 2018

Podcast series: Diseases in Dialogue

Researchers from the ERC-funded "Diseases of Modern Life" project at the University of Oxford join experts...

Researchers from the ERC-funded "Diseases of Modern Life" project at the University of Oxford join experts from a range of fields to discuss some of the major questions surrounding...

Researchers from the ERC-funded "Diseases of Modern Life" project at the University of Oxford join experts from a range of fields to discuss some of the major questions surrounding scientific, technological...

3 June 2019

Painting by Edvard Munch of a man looking melancholy

Podcasts: Recordings from Solitude and Modernity colloquium

The ‘Solitude and Modernity’ colloquium was co-sponsored by ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ (Oxford) and ‘Pathologies...

The ‘Solitude and Modernity’ colloquium was co-sponsored by ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ (Oxford) and ‘Pathologies of Solitude’ (Queen Mary University of London).

3 June 2019

Podcast: #Ruskin200 - Ruskin, Science and the Environment

You can listen to our #Ruskin200 podcast here.

28 January 2019

When Greeks Flew Kites – Sleep: A Third of Human History

Our PI, Professor Sally Shuttleworth, speaks about Victorians, overwork, and quack cures for sleeplessness on the...

Our PI, Professor Sally Shuttleworth, speaks about Victorians, overwork, and quack cures for sleeplessness on the 7th January 2019 broadcast of Radio 4’s When Greeks Flew Kites.

7 January 2019

Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word

Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and...

Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and cultural determinants of health and well-being.

6 May 2017

Photograph of Sally Shuttleworth accepting the award

Victorian Light Night video wins Public Engagement Award

We are beyond excited to announce that 'The Victorian Speed of Life' project has won an University of...

We are beyond excited to announce that 'The Victorian Speed of Life' project has won an University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award.

3 June 2019

Victorian Light Night: The Projection Video

Having suitably intrigued you about the projection shown on Victorian Light Night and/or made you sorry you missed...

Having suitably intrigued you about the projection shown on Victorian Light Night and/or made you sorry you missed it, we are excited to share video footage of "Victorian Speed...

Having suitably intrigued you about the projection shown on Victorian Light Night and/or made you sorry you missed it, we are excited to share video footage of "Victorian Speed of Life".

3 December 2018

Edited photograph of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s image of a nerve cell. Originally taken by Irene Tobón and posted on Flickr commons. Some rights reserved.

Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health

See the videos from our conference, Mind Reading: Adolescence, Literature and Mental Health

3 June 2019

Sleep and Stress: Recordings from the Day

Please see the audio files below.

3 June 2019

Full video from Contagion Camerata

This is the full video from our Contagion Camera event from 2 February, 2018. See more at Contagion Camerata

16 February 2018

Join us for a Contagion Camerata

Local students have been working with Dr John Traill (University of Oxford) to compose musical pieces about science...

Local students have been working with Dr John Traill (University of Oxford) to compose musical pieces about science and medicine. For inspiration, the students attended the Contagion...

Local students have been working with Dr John Traill (University of Oxford) to compose musical pieces about science and medicine. For inspiration, the students attended the Contagion Cabaret at Oxford's Curiosity...

Tuesday 2 January 2018

UK Disability History Month Event: Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perpsectives

The two talks will raise lots of ideas for discussion, including the impact of modern technologies in each period...

The two talks will raise lots of ideas for discussion, including the impact of modern technologies in each period on the nature of work.

Tuesday 14 November 2017

Radcliffe Humanities

Photograph of Emilie Taylor-Brown swing dancing

Songs, Cakes, and Games: Thoughts on Performing, Baking, and Playing Our Research at Oxford's Curiosity Carnival

On 29th September 2017, Oxford hosted the Curiosity Carnival – a city-wide public engagement event as part of...

On 29th September 2017, Oxford hosted the Curiosity Carnival – a city-wide public engagement event as part of European Researcher’s night.

3 October 2017

Cartoon of various bacteria inside an intestine

Video of Germs Revisited

On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the...

On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the...

On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the subject of Germs Revisited....

20 June 2017

Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word

Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and...

Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and cultural determinants of health and well-being.

6 May 2017

Call for Papers: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, 10-11 September 2016 at St Anne's College

CfP for Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century at St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September...

CfP for Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century at St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September 2016

12 October 2015

Stressed out? So were the Victorians.

We didn’t invent the ‘diseases of modern life’; people in Victorian England worried about anxiety and overwork,...

We didn’t invent the ‘diseases of modern life’; people in Victorian England worried about anxiety and overwork, too.

19 July 2017

Podcasts and videos

Podcasts and audio recordings

What unites Victorian and modern sleep researchers? -- An Oxplore Podcast

Podcast: Victorian Light Night, an interview with The Projection Studio

Podcast - Victorian Light Night: Collaborating with Cheney School

Podcast series: Diseases in Dialogue

Podcasts: Recordings from Solitude and Modernity colloquium

Podcast: #Ruskin200 - Ruskin, Science and the Environment

When Greeks Flew Kites – Sleep: A Third of Human History

Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word

Videos

Victorian Light Night video wins Public Engagement Award

Victorian Light Night: The Projection Video

Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health

Sleep and Stress: Recordings from the Day

Full video from Contagion Camerata

Join us for a Contagion Camerata

UK Disability History Month Event: Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perpsectives

Songs, Cakes, and Games: Thoughts on Performing, Baking, and Playing Our Research at Oxford's Curiosity Carnival

Video of Germs Revisited

Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word

Call for Papers: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, 10-11 September 2016 at St Anne's College

Stressed out? So were the Victorians.