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The COVID pandemic exposed the extent to which sleep is entwined with social conditions - sleep is highly dynamic and very little about sleep is unchangeable. For example, changed social conditions over the past 100 years appear to have had a marked impact upon key elements of sleep. Studies on circadian rhythms and sleep, along with historical insights, have shown that such changed societal conditions have resulted in a detachment of these key biological rhythms from the geophysical cycle of light and dark, with major deleterious effects upon human functioning, wellbeing, and creativity.
Rhythmicity is not only at the heart of sleep and chronobiology, but is also fundamental to the humanities.
The network is led by Dr Sebastian Klinger (Modern Languages), Professor Sally Shuttleworth (English), Professor Russell Foster (Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute) and Dr Alessandra Aloisi (Medieval and Modern Languages).
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| 5 | Creative Commons | Dance Music, Wakefulness and Embodied Rhythm – Part 4 | How could different types of music be used in therapy? Oxford medical graduate and working musician and DJ Michael Diamond discusses the features of different music genres types of music and their therapeutic potential. | Eric Clarke, Michael Diamond | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Dance Music, Wakefulness and Embodied Rhythm – Part 3 | How can electronic dance music tools and techniques be used to manipulate music for psychological ends, for example to enhance sleep? | Eric Clarke, Michael Diamond | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | Dance Music, Wakefulness and Embodied Rhythm – Part 2 | How does a DJ use different music to engage listeners, from a neuropsychological perspective? Professor Eric Clarke (Emeritus Professor of Music at Oxford) and Michael Diamond (Oxford medical graduate and musician/DJ) discuss. | Eric Clarke, Michael Diamond | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Dance Music, Wakefulness and Embodied Rhythm – Part 1 | What's the relationship between music and the rhythms of our lives? Professor Sally Shuttleworth asks Professor Eric Clarke (Music at University of Oxford) and Michael Diamond (Oxford medical graduate and musician/DJ) to discuss. | Sally Shuttleworth, Eric Clarke, Michael Diamond | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 1 | Sleep, Light, Architecture | How can a neuroscientist and an architect help us to understand the world of sleep and the rhythms that govern our lives? | Russell Foster, Ian Ritchie, Sally Shuttleworth, Ruth Abrahams | 12 May 2023 |