Surgical Outcomes: A Victorian Viewpoint
Surgical Outcomes: A Victorian Viewpoint, an article written by Dr Sally Frampton and Alison Moulds, has been published in April’s issue of the Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The...
View ArticlePeople Powered Science
Science has escaped from the laboratory. It lives on our television screens and newspaper pages. Much of this modern, capital ‘S’ Science, is conducted using very big and very complex scientific...
View ArticleTwilight Science at the Royal Society, 29 June 2015
Come and meet the Constructing Scientific Communities team at the Royal Society’s Twilight Science evening on Monday 29 June 2015, which is part of an exciting programme of events for the Summer...
View ArticleOrchid Observers featured in BBC Earth
The recently launched Orchid Observers project has been featured in an article for BBC Earth. The article is available here. To become a citizen scientist on the project and contribute to research on...
View ArticleOld Weather: Citizen Scientists in the 19th and 21st Centuries
Old Weather: Citizen Scientists in the 19th and 21st Centuries, by Professor Sally Shuttleworth, has been published in the Spring 2015 issue of the Science Museum Group Journal. The article is...
View ArticleWorkshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals
The workshop ‘Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals’ was held on 30 May 2015 and co-organized by the ERC-funded ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ Project and the AHRC-funded ‘Constructing...
View ArticleGoing into rooms and saying things: Academic presentations
(The world’s just people walking around, going into rooms and saying things.) pic.twitter.com/Rcka6h2E8y — Peep Show Quotes (@PeepShowQOTD) October 25, 2013 Giving presentations is a vital part of...
View ArticleConstructing Scientific Communities article published in The Lancet
Professor Sally Shuttleworth and Dr Sally Frampton’s article on the medical strand of the Constructing Scientific Communities project has been published in The Lancet (Volume 385, Number 9987, 27 June...
View ArticleWorking with 19th Century Medical and Health Periodicals Workshop featured in...
Medical Periodicals: Mining the Past, by Oxford based science writer Georgina Ferry, has been published in The Lancet (Volume 385, number 9987, 27 June 2015) and features a number of the papers...
View ArticleProfessor Chris Lintott wins Kelvin Medal and Prize
Professor Chris Lintott has been awarded the Kelvin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for major contributions to public engagement with science through the media and Zooniverse projects. Full...
View ArticleTables Turned at the Royal Society’s Twilight Science
Guest blogger and honorary Conscicom-er Richard Fallon recounts recent happenings at the Royal Society. Photos by Berris Charnley. Without much hesitation, science historians will tell you that...
View ArticleFrom Citizen Science to Citizen Humanities – 19th Century history in the...
Dr Geoff Belknap has written a blog post for the University of Leicester website discussing the Constructing Scientific Communities project and how the public can contribute to scientific research. The...
View ArticleProfessor Sally Shuttleworth elected as Fellow of the British Academy
Many congratulations to Professor Sally Shuttleworth who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The British Academy elects new Fellows annually for distinction in the humanities and social...
View ArticleConstructing Scientific Communities: Article in the Journal of Victorian Culture
An article by Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Professor Gowan Dawson and Professor Chris Lintott on the Constructing Scientific Communities project has been published in the Journal of Victorian Culture...
View ArticleOrchid Observers featured on BBC News Online
Orchid Observers has been featured in an article on BBC News Online, which provides an update on the project’s progress. 200 new flowering locations have been identified and several rare species have...
View ArticleCitizen Science at Oxford Open Doors – Sunday 13 September 2015
The Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries and Diseases of Modern Life: 19th Century Perspectives Projects will be taking part in Oxford Open Doors 2015...
View ArticleFun Palaces at the Oxford Playhouse, 3 October 2015
On Saturday 3rd October, the project will be taking part in Fun Palaces, a nationwide programme of free arts and sciences events. Members of the project team will be at the Oxford Playhouse in Beaumont...
View ArticleScience, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in...
Our programme for Michaelmas Term 2015 is now announced with three seminars taking place at St Anne’s College. Drinks will be served after each seminar and all are welcome. Wednesday 28 October 2015...
View ArticleThe End of the Scientific Journal? Transformations in Publishing. Symposium...
The End of the Scientific Journal? Transformations in Publishing A one day symposium investigating scientific journal publishing — past, present and future. The Royal Society, London, 27th November...
View ArticleScience Gossip project shortlisted for the Ayrton Prize
The Science Gossip project has been shortlisted for the British Society for the History of Science‘s Ayrton Prize 2015. This is a new prize for outstanding history of science web projects and Science...
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