Theme: Interventions in Healthcare

TRANSMISSION Interactive Installation

Come along and take part in a sonic and visual world inspired by the similarities between the spread of ‘infectious’ ideas through social networks

TRANSMISSION Interactive Installation

Come along and take part in a sonic and visual world inspired by the similarities between the spread of ‘infectious’ ideas through social networks

Poetry and Illness

Nationally renowned poets Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, and Blake Morrison come together for a unique event to consider the relationship between poetry and ill-health

Poetry and Ill Health: Words for important times

Nationally renowned poet Ian McMillan accompanied by the acclaimed poet Peter Sansom will read from their own work and from the canon of English literature on the subject of ill-health.

Jane’s story: a story of a young person’s struggle with a chronic health issue

First-hand accounts of young people with chronic health conditions, presented through the voice of one young woman, ‘Jane’

The Global Eradication of Smallpox

The World Health Organization’s successful campaign for the global eradication of smallpox was one of the most important historical events of the post-war era. Yet what accounts for its success among the many failures and disappointments of international development efforts during the post-war decades?

Visions of Variola: Photographing smallpox eradication

An exhibition focusing on the international effort to eradicate smallpox as pictured in photographic vignettes by some of the most renowned photojournalists of the post-war era

Inside the human body: Seeing with ultrasound

Find out from Peter Wells, one of ultrasound’s pioneers, how the technique of ultrasound can now produce two- and three-dimensional images, often in real time, as well as information about blood flow, tissue motion and elasticity.