Victorian Light Night goes to Dunedin, New Zealand
7 September 2020
Earlier this year, our Principal Investigator travelled with The Projection Studio to the University of Otago, New Zealand in order to share Victorian Light Night.
The latest issue of Interface Focus brings together a collection of papers focussed on sleep and stress. The topic is considered from both a historical and modern-day scientific perspective, with the articles spanning the sciences and humanities.
What unites Victorian and modern sleep researchers? -- An Oxplore Podcast
2 October 2019
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)
PI Sally Shuttleworth explores how "stress caused sleeplessness for the Victorians too" on The Conversation
sshuttleworth, 20 September 2019
“Sleeplessness is one of the torments of our age and generation.” You might presume that this is a quote from a contemporary commentator, and no wonder: the World Health Organisation has diagnosed a global epidemic of sleeplessness.
Past, Present, or Fiction?: Playing Mind-Boggling Medical History
3 June 2019
The room is quiet. Groups of students – year ten mostly – have just been given little piles of cards to sort through. Each card has a statement about medicine.
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 and medical developments.
Podcasts: Recordings from Solitude and Modernity colloquium
3 June 2019
The ‘Solitude and Modernity’ colloquium was co-sponsored by ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ (Oxford) and ‘Pathologies of Solitude’ (Queen Mary University of London).
Victorian Light Night video wins Public Engagement Award
3 June 2019
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.
'Such a Pair – The Twin Lives of Humans and Trees', Catherine Charlwood's Hay Festival Lecture
30 May 2019
Catherine won the 2019 ASLE/INSPIRE Literature and Sustainability Lecture Competition, giving her the opportunity to present her research at the Hay Festival.
Tales of Two Jameses: Literature, science and medicine at the end of the nineteenth century
26 February 2019
As a research assistant with Diseases of Modern Life, I will be looking at fin-de-siècle representations of mental illness and addiction, especially as these afflictions were conceived as being transferred among hereditary lines.
When Greeks Flew Kites – Sleep: A Third of Human History
7 January 2019
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.
