Research into 18thCentury Dutch and Scottish anatomists as background to The Embalmer’s Book of Recipes; Wellcome Trust History of Medicine grant for visits to museums and libraries.
Category Archives: Projects
Talks and workshops throughout Cumbria (more than 50 in two years, to WIs, Young Farmers, Quilters Guild, Soroptomists, U3A, playwrights, Humanists, and more!), looking at modern science (Human Genome Project, ‘Dolly (the cloned sheep): the Calendar Girls’ guide to the secret of eternal life’,‘Garry the green fluorescent mouse’, ‘Making eyes’ etc). A Wellcome Trust People […]
NESTA Learning Award, 2005, with Peter Normington (IT, Ardus), to set up a database and website of ‘writer-friendly scientists’ willing to meet and discuss their work with writers. Project included publicity articles, and organising the 2 ‘Subtle Science’ writing competitions sponsored by the Guardian and Science. Plus talks and workshops on ‘putting the science into […]
The Solway Junction Railway that was built across the raised peatbog of Bowness Common in the 19thC – the plan, the digging, a mystery about the navvies; damage to the bog, the eventual removal of the railway, and the conservation work re-wetting the peatlands; the construction and demolition of the Solway Viaduct. With photographer James […]
A lockdown project 2021-22 During and between the various degrees of lockdown, I kept busy by visiting limestone pavements, fossil beds, drystone walls, kilns (including the huge TATA kilns at Shap), quicklime makers, haematite mines, and more. All the articles, and an introduction to the project, are on my Solwayshorewalker blog here.
During 2012 I had the enormous pleasure of visiting and meeting some of the participants from the Lothian Birth Cohort studies – older people in their 70s and 90s. I listened to them, and wrote their ‘life-stories’, as part of the ongoing studies on ageing and cognition in which they are participating. This Lifetimes project was […]
From 2010-2011 I was a ‘Bright Ideas’ Visiting Fellow at the European Genomics Forum (EGF), University of Edinburgh. My aim was to explore and write factual or fictional accounts of some of the people whose tissues and organs came to be publicly exhibited in the Surgeons’ Hall Museum, Edinburgh. As a contrast to these stories […]