I have recently been appointed Lecturer in Environmental History at Newcastle University, and will take up this exciting post in late spring 2024.

I am delighted to share a new coauthored publication about curating complexity in art, science and medicine, now available open access in the journal STS Encounters.

Just published: my latest paper ‘Z-Time - Making and feeling time in the chronobiological laboratory’ has been published ahead of print with Time & Society. A departure from my usual historical work, this paper uses the tools of STS and temporality studies to think about the way different forms of time are made and experienced by chronobiologists as they study circadian rhythms in the lab.

I am delighted that my newest publication ‘Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963’ is now available open access from History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. This article has developed out of a research visit to the Hana Holborn Gray Special Collections Library at the University of Chicago in 2021 and was presented as a paper at the European Society for the History of Science conference in September 2021.

I’m delighted to share my latest peer-reviewed publication titled ‘Rhythmic history’: Toward a new research agenda in the history of health and medicine, which is available Open Access from Endeavour.

The Medical Museion is proud to share a new open access publication about making interdisciplinary exhibitions based on The World is in You.

I am delighted to share that my second book on the history of circadian rhythms is under contract with Polity Press.

Imperial Bodies in London had been awarded the Whitfield Book Prize by the Royal Historical Society.

Imperial Bodies in London has been short-listed for the RHS’s Whitfield Book Prize.

New project on the history of circadian rhythms in the 19th century Arctic coming in 2023!

Two new reviews have recently been published for Imperial Bodies in London.

I was delighted to provide a review of the volume ‘Exploring Emotion, Care, and Enthusiasm in ‘Unloved’ Collections’, edited by Anna Woodham, Alison Hess and Rhianedd Smith for Volume 9 of the journal Museum Worlds.

How early is too early to wake up? How much sleep do we really need? And can an extra hour of evening sun cure consumption? This research article for the Social History of Medicine re-interrogates the history of daylight saving time in light of public health and early twentieth century anxieties around the limits of workers’ rhythmic bodies.

A research article for the Bulletin of the History of Medicine exploring how the gut was seen as both a cause of and a potential cure for insomnia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An original research article co-authored by Martha Biggins to be published in the Science Museum Group Journal in spring 2021.

A blog contributed to the Times of COVID-19 hosted by the Lifetimes project of the University of Oslo.

Why is working with museum objects so appealing to researchers? There can be little doubt that object-centred research has been coveted by academics and curators alike since at least the nineteenth century. A wealth of scholarly work has interrogated the museum object from philosophical, historical and sociological perspectives. You might justifiably think already we know everything there is to know about how to engage with objects. So why are researchers (including myself) still obsessed with something as simplistic as touching them?