Prof Sally Shuttleworth

Sally Shuttleworth CBE, FBA is Senior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, and the English Faculty, University of Oxford, where she was previously Head of the Humanities Division.  Her research is on the interface between science, medicine and the humanities, particularly in the nineteenth century.   Between 2014-19 she ran two large research projects, Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives (ERC) and Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries (AHRC).  As part of this work, she jointly edited with Russell Foster an interdisciplinary collection, Sleep and Stress: Past and Present, a Special Issue of the Royal Society Journal, Interface Focus (2020). Other recent publications include Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019); Progress and Pathology: Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (2020) and Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities (2020).  She is currently researching concepts of overwork and sleep deprivation in nineteenth-century culture.  

Sally is one of the convenors of the Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network (2022-2024)