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BA Funded

Funded by the British Academy until December 2023.

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Mental Health

Investigating the mental / emotional health of astronauts.

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In the News

Covered countless times in the Media

EGOS Conference

We have now submitted our final paper to the EGOS conference which widens and resonates the debate with extreme work. Dr Nina Jorden will represent our paper which draws on Twitter data to examine emotional scripts within the context of complex systems. Go team!...

Bid Writing Workshop

We are looking forward to going into a new gear with our research into the mental / emotional health of astronauts. We are holding a bid writing workshop tomorrow in which we will prepare proposals for ESRC and EPSRC. Space is awesome....

Loughborough Business School Launch Event

We gave a talk at Loughborough Business School to help launch their rebrand. It was very well attended and pleasure to present on our research into astronaut mental health. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/business-school/...

Paper Accepted by EGOS Conference

The team’s first full scientific paper has been accepted by the prestigious EGOS conference which takes place in Cagliari, Italy in July 2023....

Interview with The National (UAE)

PI Dr Patrick Stacey was interviewed by Dan Beardsley of the The National (UAE) about the project and the implications for the Emirates first astronaut, Hazza Al Mansouri:   https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2023/03/05/how-spending-time-in-space-poses-challenges-for-body-and-mind/ …includes my excerpts from my interview last week...

Music Collective

We have established an international space music collective called “Music for the Mental Health of Astronauts”. It includes the established artists Dream State Logic, Terminus Void, Pat Keista, Sepula and more. Please visit: https://spaceformentalhealth.org/music/...

We Attended Space Expo at Bremen

We attended the Space Expo at Bremen on 15 November 2022. It was very worthwhile and very interesting. We made meaningful connections with Astronautin, Bremen University, Italian Space Agency, European Space Agency, and many more. The conference buzz words were ‘launch’, ‘space economy’, ‘sustainability’ and ‘qualification’. There was, unsurprising...