Dr Alison Moulds

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Alison Moulds

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Alison Moulds is Engagement and Impact Manager on the Wellcome Trust-funded Living with Feeling project at Queen Mary University of London and Engagement Fellow on the Wellcome Trust-funded Surgery & Emotion project at the University of Roehampton.

She was a part-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant on Diseases of Modern Life between 2018-19. During this time she researched living and working conditions in the retail industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She focused on representations of the ‘living-in’ system and was interested in cultural constructions of work-life balance. She was previously a DPhil candidate on the Constructing Scientific Communities project, also at the University of Oxford. Her thesis was about how medical practitioners constructed their professional identities through their writing in the Victorian period. 

Selected contributions

Photograph of Alison Moulds running her event

Death and Disease Behind the Counter

This term, the Diseases of Modern Life team showcased their research at two major public engagement events - our Victorian Speed Late at the Museum of the History of Science and Victorian Light Night with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.
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Oh what a - Victorian Light - Night!

On Friday 16th November Woodstock Road was a hive of activity for "Victorian Light Night", part of both the national Being Human Festival and Oxford's own Christmas Light Festival.
Photograph of Catherine Charlwood in Victorian Dress

Victorian Speed - Time Flies When You're Having FUN!

In this illustration for Punch magazine (1880), George du Maurier shows a customer passing a chair to an overworked shop assistant.

'Sanitation on the Shop': Health and Retail Work in Late Victorian Britain

In 1892, the Lancet launched an inquiry into the dangers of retail work.
Photograph of people reading at Contagion Cabaret

The Contagion Cabaret at the Science Museum (London)

Last night The Contagion Cabaret brought its infectious entertainment to audiences at the Science Museum's 'Superbugs' Late.
Christmas card from a Victorian periodical

Christmas and the Victorian Medical Press

The release of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) - a film which tells the story of how Charles Dickens penned A Christmas Carol in 1843 - has reignited the popular myth that the Victorians 'created' the festive season.