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Last weekend provided us with an exciting opportunity to introduce our research projects to a slightly different audience than the one we usually interact with: the ladies and gentlemen who participated in Meeting Minds.

Dr. Oskar Cox Jensen is an Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the History Department at QMUL, an expert in British song of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a novelist, and he is also a singer of ballads!

I’ve always felt uncomfortable around waxworks and dummies.

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

There’s an old joke. A man clearing out his attic comes across an oil painting and a dusty violin.

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

Dr Melissa Dickson's article, Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat's Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing, has been published in the Spring 2017 edition of the Science Museum Group Journal.

I have never been able to help but scoff at the success of bottled water as a concept.

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

On Tuesday evening, I found myself listening to the sounds of burping sand dunes in the Mojave Desert.

I remember being fascinated by the glittering chandeliers, the massive, colourful bouquets of flowers, the guests from all over the world sporting their traditional attires and, of course, the music.

If the project of medical science may be described as the exploration of the human body, then surely its final, vastest, most mysterious frontier is the brain.

Making the news last week was the amusing story of the zoo in Belgium that recently captured a video of a family of elephants appearing to sway in unison to a performance of live classical music.

We are big on peace and quiet in Oxford. For eight hours a day, the most that is likely to disturb me from my research is the faint lowing of cattle in the fields behind the college, or the movement of papers around me in the Bodleian.

There is a well-known anecdote about an appearance Peter Sellers made on Parkinson many years ago.

See the videos from the day below