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'Along The Lines' was an immersive, virtual workshop and performance that took place in September and October 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 Contagion Cabaret is a brilliant irreverent look at plagues and pandemics, past and present--and now it's also a film!

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.

This issue brings together a collection of papers focussed on sleep and stress.

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)

"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.

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.

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

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.

Please see the audio files below.

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

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.

Catherine won the 2019 ASLE/INSPIRE Literature and Sustainability Lecture Competition, giving her the opportunity to present her research at the Hay Festival.

The last blog post introduced why we created GCSE resources, while this one explains how we've used them in events with teachers and students.

Our final seminar series of the project is announced.

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

Three key figures - Prof. Sally Shuttleworth, Ross Ashton and Karen Monid - reflect on their experiences of Victorian Light Night.

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.

Hannah Wills, our new Research Assistant, introduces her work on Victorian diaries.

You can listen to our #Ruskin200 podcast here.

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.

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