The Queen's College Record 2023

Parkinson’s disease and REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, as well as 7T MRI imaging
findings in Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease.
At the beginning of this year, I co-founded Neu Health, a health technology spin-out
from the University. The company successfully raised funding and aims to improve
the care of those with neurodegenerative conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease
and dementia. We developed a digital platform that allows clinicians to assess and
monitor disease progression remotely using sensors in personal smartphones,
improving quality of care.
Reports and College Activities
Annalisa Nicholson (French)
I began this academic year with a term abroad in Capd’Ail,
funded by my research allowance and by an Amy
Wygant Research Bursary from the Society for Early
Modern French Studies, working at the archives at the
Prince’s Palace in Monaco. This work involved transcribing
and translating letters and documents for my forthcoming
edition of the correspondence of the Italo-French exile
Hortense Mancini (1646-1699), which is now close to completion. While there, I also
wrote the entry on Mancini for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and
discovered that my article on Mancini’s suicide, which came out last year with Early
Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, was awarded Honourable Mention for
the Best Article of 2022 award by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
and Gender. The remainder of the year was devoted to various projects. My thesisturned-monograph
on Mancini’s salon and on the French diaspora more broadly
in seventeenth-century London is now under contract with Bloomsbury History
and I am working to finish the manuscript by next summer. I also saw my article on
satire and humour in seventeenth-century French women’s writing via Madeleine
de Scudéry published with Australian French Studies. Lastly, I am in the final stages
of co-editing a special issue of Renaissance Studies on ‘Exile and Innovation’ and
look forward to its publication at some point next year.
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