Josh Cohen in Conversation with Akshi Singh 07 Jan 202207 Jan 2022 Conversations Solitudes researcher, Akshi Singh, interviews psychoanalyst and writer, Josh Cohen about the moments of isolation and connection found between patient and therapist during the pandemic. 'Wordless Solitudes' 10 Dec 202114 Jan 2022 Conversations As part of our 'Conversations' series, researcher James Morland talks to award-winning illustrator and author Sophie Burrows about her 'Finding Solitude' exhibition. Talking to Myself 07 Dec 202106 Jan 2022 Blog Vanessa Lim misses dancing. In this blog, she learns new ways to say 'I miss you' and remembers the intimacies of dance partners. No island is an island: Covid and the deadliness of willed isolation 16 Nov 202107 Dec 2021 Blog Our Principal Investigator, Barbara Taylor discusses what it means to be 'involved in mankind as a whole' in pandemic times. The Distance Cure 26 Oct 202114 Dec 2021 Conversations Hannah Zeavin discusses the role of distance in the history of mediated therapies with Solitudes researcher, Charlie Williams. The Astronaut Alone 27 Sep 202101 Oct 2021 Blog In our latest blog, researcher Jeffrey Mathias writes about NASA's isolation chamber, used to put astronauts to the test in the 1950s. From Solitude to Loneliness: Preaching and Meditating on Marriage and Widowhood in Early Modern Britain 03 Sep 202106 Sep 2021 Blog Researchers Hannah Yip and Thomas Clifton explore solitude in early modern meditations and sermons on widowhood and remarriage. Finding Solitude: Notes on an Exhibition 09 Aug 202123 Aug 2021 Blog Illustrator and author Sophie Burrows guides us through the work she has created for our new exhibition, 'Finding Solitude', week-by-week. A Slice of Life 18 Jun 202118 Jun 2021 Blog In our latest post, Tom Wicker reflects on the sensory solace of lockdown baking and breathing out in the face of COVID uncertanties. Coffee, COVID and Porridge 26 May 202127 May 2021 Blog Writer and mental health advocate Kate Stone Matheson describes the solitude of chronic illness and disability against a backdrop of repeated pandemic lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia.