Listen to Heart of the Matter team members Claire Hansen and Bríd Phillips on Cassidy Cash's That Shakespeare Life! We speak about our recent article on broken hearts in Shakespeare.

The Heart of the Matter project's very own Dr Michael Stevens features in a recent article in The Good Weekend (Amanda Hooton, 20 April 2024) on the artificial heart. Dr Stevens is part of the Artificial Heart Frontiers Program, recently awarded $50 million by the Medical Research Future Fund.

Check out The Guardian's article on love studies, which includes a shout out to a collection which featured the Heart of the Matter! 

Read an excerpt here:

"Elizabeth Reid Boyd, a Edith Cowan University senior lecturer, co-edited Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What’s love got to do with it?, which was published last year.

Love studies is a relatively new field, but there are now dedicated conferences, journals and academics across more disciplines than you might think: philosophy, psychology, biology, literary studies, anthropology, law, social work and gender studies. It draws in robotics and popular culture and looks at a darker side – stalking, coercion, harassment and violence."

Happy Valentine's Day 2023!

Our own Dr Claire Hansen from Heart of the Matter has written a piece for the Australian National University Reporter, At the Heart of Romance: why a vital organ is linked to love. 

"This Valentine’s Day, whether you are listening to love songs, avoiding all things heart-themed or somewhere in between, you’ll inevitably come across that persistent symbol of the heart —the beating centre of how we think about (and feel) love." - Dr Claire Hansen, 2023