Research assistant Lucy Marlow is a member of Breathe Oxford, a group of researchers investigating breathlessness from a neuroscience perspective. Here she outlines how neuroscientific research could change the way we treat breathlessness… Breathlessness is a very personal experience, be … Read more…
A ‘songline’ is a song used within Australian Aboriginal culture as a way to navigate across the land… Health research is often bounded by disciplinary expertise. In a paper recently published in the journal Medical Humanities, members of the Life … Read more…
Senior Research Associate on the Life of Breath project, clinical music therapist and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie visited a COPD support group in Oxford to share some helpful techniques with the group. Kate shares her observations here……. Seven people … Read more…
Can using letters help create a personal narrative and public story, generating new ways of relating to breathlessness? A new paper by Life of Breath researcher Alice Malpass and collaborator Elspeth Penny explores the value of using theories of story … Read more…
Music & Mindful Yoga Therapist Kate Binnie joined Life of Breath as a researcher in January 2018. She writes: I am delighted and honoured to be officially part of the LoB team at Bristol! How I found LoB I stumbled … Read more…
This post was originally published by CDJ Plus. Pradeep Narayanan is Director of Research and Capacity Building at Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices, New Delhi and is collaborating with Life of Breath team member Andrew Russell for research on tobacco farming … Read more…
How do we accurately measure hearing loss? In a new paper in The British Journal for the History of Science, Life of Breath researcher Coreen McGuire (University of Bristol) and Jaipreet Virdi shed light on the career of Dr Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge (1901–1940) – a pioneer … Read more…
New Life of Breath post-doctoral researcher Coreen McGuire introduces her research: Last seen fleeing the scene of the crime, the suspect was a white male in his mid-40s and was approximately 5’9, of a somewhat stocky build… This is the way … Read more…
This is the fourth and final blog post in a series of responses to the British Lung Foundation‘s Battle for Breath report. Join us on Twitter to discuss the issues, Thursday 24 November 2016, 12:00GMT #breathreport. Ian Jarrold, the British Lung Foundation’s Head of Research, … Read more…