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Amelia Bonea, Postdoctoral Research Assistants, has won the American Historical Association's The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism.

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

This is a guest post written by Wan Ting Yew, a first year in pre-clinical medicine at University College Dublin.

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

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.

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

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.

This is a guest post by Femi Oyebode, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham and a recent speaker at Mind Reading 2017: Mental Health and the Written Word.

The Diseases of Modern Life project was featured on the Humanities Division website as part of the ERC's 10th anniversary week celebrations and events in March.

Professor Sally Shuttleworth has been a panellist on two BBC Radio 4 programmes broadcast on 9th March 2017.

It's coming to the end of what has been for me, and for many other New Year's resolution-keepers, "sugar-free February".

Professor Sally Shuttleworth's blog for the British Academy on The Stresses and Strains of Modern Life is now available to read here.

The language of phobia is so common today that we scarcely give it a second thought. Yet it was not until the end of the 19th century that medicine turned its attention to forms of irrational fear, following the initial medical diagnosis of agoraphobia.

This is a guest post by Alice Tsay, a PhD candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

This is a guest post by Steffan Blayney, a PhD student in history at Birkbeck, University of London researching fatigue, the science of work, and the working body in Britain c.1870-1939.

This is a guest post by Dr Amy Milne-Smith, Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada currently researching representations and understandings of men and madness, 1850-1914.

Professor Sally Shuttleworth has guest edited and introduced an issue of Victorian Network, entitled The Victorian Brain.

This is a guest post by Dr Manon Mathias, a Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen.

'Even when we are alone, we are never alone,' writes award-winning science writer, Ed Yong, in his new book I Contain Multitudes.

This is a guest post by Mallory R. Cohn, a doctoral candidate in English Literature and Victorian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

This is a guest post by Agnes Arnold-Forster, a third-year PhD candidate in the History Department at King's College London. Agnes's research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, looks at cancer in Britain, from 1792 to 1914

This is a guest post by Dr Josephine Hoegaerts, a Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the author of Masculinity and Nationhood, 1830-1910. Constructions of Identity and Citizenship in Belgium.