by The Visual and Material Lab | May 12, 2026 | Highlights, Newsletter, Visual & Material
Platform artist-researcher Dr Sofie Layton recently presented her work at an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Creative Health roundtable focused on Digital Health and CreaTech. The session brought together policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to examine... 
by The Platform | Apr 28, 2026 | Affective Experience, Events recap, Highlights, Measurement
Rebecca Jackson, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Measurement Lab and Affective Experience Lab, writes: On 11-13 March, the Affective Experience Lab and Measurement Lab hosted a three-day event, the Measurement... 
by The Platform | Apr 22, 2026 | Highlights, Publications, The Festival
Two of our researchers explore the concept of imagination in articles published in this month’s edition of The Psychologist, part of a six-part series on the imagination. Georgia Punton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, writes about imagination during fiction... 
by The Platform | Apr 8, 2026 | Highlights, Measurement
This year the American Medical Association (AMA) have stated that their next Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment will remove race equations from lung function testing. This has been a long time coming. It is a move that comes off the back of a... 
by The Platform | Mar 24, 2026 | Affective Experience, Highlights, Measurement, Publications
How big is a ‘drop’? There’s no single right answer to this, but historically, the same people who wanted to banish it from the metric system ended up giving in to its ubiquitous use in both chemistry and medicine. To understand why is to understand the... 
by The Platform | Mar 4, 2026 | Highlights, Measurement, Research update, Visual & Material
The Reading Room, Benjamin Gilbert. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). DRP-MH researchers Harriet Barratt and Fiona Johnstone from the Platform’s Visual and Material Lab,...