We co-ordinate and support research on the lived experience of health and illness, with a focus on what we call 'hidden experience'.

Cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research and postgraduate education in the histories of medicine, health, disease, medical ethics and science.

Marginal natural elements and negotiating the coded systems of meaning used to represent the natural world in the medieval and early modern imagination.

A world-leading network of philosophers, historians, and sociologists, researching cutting-edge issues connecting science, medicine, and society.

Special areas of focus are climate science, economic modeling, evidence-based social and economic policy, public health and biomedical science.

The cultural and social dimensions of ancient science and technology, and on reconstructing the perspectives of ancient knowledge communities.