Under the Surface
Toby talks about the story behind the choral piece and his creative process.
Toby talks about the story behind the choral piece and his creative process.
Highlights and interviews from an evening of poetry and song to provoke deeper thought and discussion around the lived experience…
New Life of Breath post-doctoral researcher Coreen McGuire introduces her research: Last seen fleeing the scene of the crime, the suspect…
Elan Higueras shares the story behind his winning composition competition entry.
Some may wonder why our project includes the consideration of medieval thoughts and practices relating to the breath. What can…
Andrew Russell and Gaynor Williams talk about what difference the ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces has made.
Anthropologist Alice Malpass and letter-revivalist Elspeth Penny talk about what they've learned from asking people to write a letter to their breath.
Rebecca Oxley and Fredrik Nyman discuss why learning from people who experience breathlessness is integral to our work.
The header image shows ‘In the same breath’, a 2008 artwork by artist and glass-blower Kate Williams (borosilicate glass /…
Jane Macnaughton discusses why breathlessness is an invisible symptom and why the people who experience it can be invisible in society.
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