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Alison Moulds has been awarded the Greta Depledge Prize for the best postgraduate paper by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association at their 8th annual conference.

Sally Frampton's blog post for Remedia on the first aid movement in the nineteenth century is now online.

A feature on citizen science for the Guardian Online has included a profile of the highly successful Zooniverse projects.

Professor Chris Lintott’s video on citizen science, explaining how anyone can contribute to scientific knowledge features in ‘Citizen science is making scientists of everyone‘ (The Guardian 10 March 2015).

Professor Sally Shuttleworth and Dr Sally Frampton’s article on the medical strand of the Constructing Scientific Communities project has been published in The Lancet (Volume 385, Number 9987, 27 June 2015).

An article by Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Professor Gowan Dawson and Professor Chris Lintott on the Constructing Scientific Communities project has been published in the Journal of Victorian Culture (Volume 20, Issue 2, 2015).

Dr Chris Lintott was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific, where he discusses citizen science, astronomy, Galaxy Zoo, presenting The Sky at Night and working with the late Sir Patrick Moore.

Alison Moulds has written a piece for the British Medical Journal‘s Medical Humanities blog entitled Embarrassing Bodies: The male doctor/female patient encounter.

From Amateurs to Citizens: Periodicals, Images and Internet platforms in the 19th and 21st centuries a guest blog post for AHRC Science in Culture by Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Dr Gowan Dawson, Dr Sally Frampton and Dr Geoff Belknap.

Dr Geoff Belknap has written a blog post for the University of Leicester website discussing the Constructing Scientific Communities project and how the public can contribute to scientific research.

An article by Dr Sally Frampton and Professor Roger Kneebone on the history of keyhole surgery has been published in Social History of Medicine.

Dr Geoffrey Belknap has been appointed Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology at the National Media Museum.

The recently launched Orchid Observers project has been featured in an article for BBC Earth.

Orchid Observers has been featured in an article on BBC News Online, which provides an update on the project's progress.

Professor Chris Lintott has featured on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science, taking part in a discussion on open access journal publishing with Fiona Godlee, Editor of the British Medical Journal and Lesley Anson, Chief Editor of Nature Communications.

In November 2015, the project held a symposium at the Royal Society on The End of the Scientific Journal? Transformations in Publishing 1800-2015.

Surgical Outcomes: A Victorian Viewpoint, an article written by Dr Sally Frampton and Alison Moulds, has been published in April’s issue of the Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Listen to Keith Moore, Head of Library and Information Services from the Royal Society and Professor Sally Shuttleworth, project PI talking on Radio 4 last week on the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.