By Rosemary Lim (Pharmacy) What do graphic and information design, architecture, pharmacy and human factors have to offer collectively to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? We are very excited to report…Read More >
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The Moral and Spiritual Implications of Illness and Suffering: the 2017 EMRC Conference
By Alanna Skuse (English Literature) It’s now 48 hours since the end of the Reading Early Modern Research Centre’s 2017 conference, and I have sufficiently recovered to write up some…Read More >
A visit to the Cole Collection
The Health Humanities Research Group was proud to welcome poet Kelley Swain and sculptor Eleanor Crook to the Cole Museum and to the Cole Archive on Tuesday. Kelley’s blog post can be…Read More >
Michael Ruse speaking on evolution as a religion
Prof Michael Ruse from Florida State University will be coming to speak on Tuesday 26th May (week 6) at 2 in the Harborne Lecture Theatre on the theme of ‘Is…Read More >
New Science in Culture module wins University teaching award
We are delighted to announce that a new third-year module on Science in Culture, run by members of the IRHS, has won a University Collaborative Award for Outstanding Contributions to…Read More >
Outside the Laboratory Door: Narrative Medicine in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science
IRHS member Verity Burke (PhD Student, English Literature) gave a paper entitled “Outside the Laboratory Door: Narrative Medicine in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science” on Wednesday 10th December 2014 at…Read More >
Darwin anniversary
David Stack, Head of History at Reading, writes: On 24 November 1859 a book containing ‘the best idea anybody ever had’ was published. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species…Read More >
The limits of science
Dr Berry Billingsley from the department of education will be leading the next work-in-progress session of the IRHS on perceived boundaries defining the extent or limits of science. The session will…Read More >
Talk at the Linnean Society
This Wednesday lunchtime (1st October) I will be giving a talk at the Linnean Society on how poets have responded to changing conceptions of the natural world, from when the…Read More >
A Pre-Raphaelite Museum
As part of this year’s Oxford Open Doors programme, John Holmes will be giving a talk explaining how the Pre-Raphaelites became involved in the design of the Oxford University Museum…Read More >