{"id":5240,"date":"2015-11-26T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2018-08-30T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T15:37:26","slug":"anna-katharina-schaffner-wins-wellcome-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/11\/26\/anna-katharina-schaffner-wins-wellcome-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Katharina Schaffner wins Wellcome funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/schaffner.html\">Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner<\/a>, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, has won a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/index.htm\">Wellcome Trust<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/Funding\/Humanities-and-social-science\/Funding-schemes\/Small-grants\/index.htm\">Humanities and Social Sciences Small Grant<\/a> for a research project entitled \u2018Human Energy: A History\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This project analyses bio-medical, psychological, and spiritual models of human energy. Embracing an interdisciplinary and a cross-cultural perspective, the research will explore\u00a0theories of human energy ranging from ancient India, China, and Greece to the present day, investigating\u00a0models of human energy such as qi, prana, chakras, auras, the <em>\u00e9lan vital<\/em>, libido, and bioenergy.<\/p>\n<p>Although syndromes entailing the loss of human energy (including depression, stress, and burnout) are spreading rapidly, no generally accepted model of human energy exists in Western culture. The project asks why is this the case, and what can we learn from history and the East about this phenomenon?<\/p>\n<p>For further details about the Wellcome Trust\u2019s funding schemes, please see the page here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/Funding\/Humanities-and-social-science\/index.htm\">www.wellcome.ac.uk\/Funding\/Humanities-and-social-science\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities from the Department of Comparative Literature, has won a Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/11\/26\/anna-katharina-schaffner-wins-wellcome-funding\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[206947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}