Diggle, ' A 1000 year old antimicrobial remedy with anti-Staphylococcal activity', mBio. Our paper on our pilot study can be found here: F.Harrison, Roberts, A., Rumbaugh, K., Lee, C. I have been working with colleagues in microbiology to test the efficacy of medieval remedies. In the past I have considered the relevance of food and drink in Anglo-Saxon funerary rites and I continue to be interested in the possibilities of comparing evidence from material culture with text-based sources. This research is currently written up in my forthcoming monograph Health and Healing in Early Medieval England. It includes treatment, as well as accommodation of people who are ill and the discourses around illness. As such I am interested in what it means to be ill, both for the individual but also for the society. My research focuses on Health, Disease and Wellbeing in Early Medieval England. In the past she served on the management committee of two Research Priority Areas: Life in Changing Environments and Health Humanities. She is a University of Nottingham Museum board member and is a board member of UNICAS (University of Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Analytical Science) which fosters new interdisciplinary research in STEMM and SHAPE. Until 2018 she has served as a Council Member of the Viking Society for Northern Research, where she is also on the editorial board of Saga Book. Until October 2018 she was the Chair of 'Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland' and served as the First Vice President for the Global head organisation of the International Society for Early Medieval English Studies (ISSIME). She is an editorial board of the Brepols Series Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages (KSS) and one of three general editors for the Amsterdam University Press Series on 'Pre-Modern Health, Disease and Disability' This research considers whether medieval remedies had any efficacy at all and if they could inspire modern drug discovery. She has published on Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon funerary rituals, Anglo-Saxon concepts of disability, health and disease.Since 2013 she has been working with a cross-disciplinary group of historians, philologist and microbiologists on medieval medical remedies (AncientBiotics), and this work is currently supported by an APEX award. Christina Lee is an Associate Professor in Viking Studies in the School of English, where she has been employed since 2001 (permanent since 2003).
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