Queen Mary History of Emotions

This is the first session of the Flourishing University seminar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, on Friday September 8. Speakers are: Jules Evans, research fellow at the Centre and lead of the Flourishing University project: An interdisciplinary approach to wellbeing in higher education (0 -22m) Rachel Piper, policy director at Student Minds: A who...

This episode I interview Gareth Hughes, lead researcher in student well-being at the University of Derby, about what he's learnt over the last decades working on student learning and well-being. We discuss: - how Derby is introducing various psycho-education classes into all its undergraduate courses, each tailored to the needs of different course students. - how to help students in the first six...

I interviewed Sir Anthony Seldon, new vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, and Dr Alan Martin, the head of psychology, about their plan to make it Europe's first 'positive university'. That includes introducing classes in Positive Psychology for every student and staff-member. You can read more on our blog: https://blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk/flourishing/2017/07/27/sir-anthony-seldon-univ...

In the middle of QMUL’s Mile End campus lies the remnants of the Novo Cemetery (Beth Chaim) which was awarded Grade II listed status in April 2014. The gravestones are laid flat in the Sephardic tradition to symbolise the equality of all in death. The site is only part of a much larger cemetery, which was opened in 1733, that was redeveloped by QMUL during the 1970’s and 1980’s. What remains is pa...

Inspired by the story she heard at a friend’s funeral, Clare Whistler and the artist Charlotte Still have been visiting tributary streams and sources of the Cuckmere River, East Sussex and recording their experiences and encounters in photographs, poems and maps. In this podcast Clare and Charlotte take me to one of their streams and Hetta Howes explains the associations between women and water in...

“I take things out of boxes, but need boxes to put them back in” A light dabble with a search engine on the subject of “tear bottles” will lead you to a world of assertions, often by online shops, about the historical use of “tear bottles” in the mourning rituals of Romans, Greeks and Victorians with stories of how tears were collected in small, stoppered, glass bottles as a sign of respect and gr...

Recorded as part of the "Museum of the Normal" event hosted by the "Living With Feeling" project of QMUL at the Barts Pathology Museum in November 2016. See: http://bit.ly/2jWQRdR

An interview about the history of emotions with Thomas Dixon, conducted in Melbourne in November 2016, edited and published originally by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Sad at Thirty - produced for QMUL Centre for the History of Emotions by Natalie Steed There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference – Where the Meanings, are – None may teach it – Any – ‘Tis the seal Despair – An imperial affliction Sent us of the Air – When it comes...

This podcast features an interview with Lord Richard Layard, LSE economist, 'happiness tsar' and a driving force in the politics of wellbeing over the last decade; and with William Davies, senior lecturer at Goldsmith's, and author of The Happiness Industry. We discuss how academics can influence public policy, how governments, universities and companies can improve wellbeing, and whether there ar...

This is an interview with the writer Geoff Dyer about peak experiences and places of numinous power. We discuss peak experiences reached through drugs, nature, love and ping-pong. Is 'peaking' a secular replacement for religion, or is there a risk the pursuit of peaks turns life into an extended gap-year? Interviewer: Jules Evans The Living With Feeling podcast comes from the Centre for the Histor...