The Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain (PAN) Network draws together established scholars and early-career academics with research interests and specialisms in the history of the arts (including music, visual arts and literature) and psychiatry. The interdisciplinary Network brings together key research experts for collaboration and reflection as well as for setting new research directions. It combines focussed discussion of historical themes with wider perspectives on engagement and impact via the inclusion of practitioners and creative artists. The Network asks 1) what was the relationship between the arts and psychiatry in nineteenth-century Britain, in the contexts of psychiatric institutions, published writings, and other media? 2) how do we understand this relationship and its associated practices within the broader context of health and social history, and the history of the arts in nineteenth-century Britain? 3) how can a deeper understanding of the historical relationship between arts and psychiatry generate direct social benefits today, across a wide range of both arts and health services? 4) what future research directions serve both to build on the historical foundations, and to make use of opportunities for impact and engagement? The relationships between the arts and health have come to the fore in recent years, with the success of established professional arts therapies, informal forms of community arts, especially participatory arts, as well as a health and medical humanities resurgence with interests in the role of the arts. Furthermore, medical and other training environments are now adopting arts criticism and practice into their curricula, while new approaches to arts as therapy are seen in the burgeoning arts-on-prescription movement. The history of the arts as medicine has received particular attention since the early-twenty first century, with important contributions from scholars such as Horden (2000), Gouk (2000) and Hogan (2001). Nineteenth-century Britain provided a key crucible for the development of the arts as forms of therapy, in the context of large-scale public mental health provision. Between the late-eighteenth century and the middle of the nineteenth, arrangements for the care of people experiencing mental health problems became largely formalised with the establishment of a network of pauper lunatic asylums, as well as hospitals and sanatoria for the middle and upper classes. Lacking any effective forms of medical treatment for insanity, a philosophy of 'moral management' prevailed, which saw patients live in a carefully-controlled environment, undertake employment, and enjoy rational occupations and amusements. Prior to the development of formal models of arts therapy, innovative approaches in music, art, theatre and literature across a wide range of institutions and contexts placed the arts firmly within the therapeutic practice of moral management. The PAN Network draws together scholars involved in recent research across the interdisciplinary arts, building the foundation for future research and impact activity through engagement with museums and cultural heritage sites, artist-practitioners and health and wellbeing professionals. It offers dedicated space and time for the consideration of research directions and priorities, seeking to explore and establish innovative pathways in collaboration with impact partners. The three seminars will focus on historical themes, considering Practices, Discourses, and Contexts, moving towards a consideration of impact and engagement in the third seminar and the final conference. From an early stage, stakeholders will be consulted and formal partnerships further developed, in support of ongoing collaborative projects under the auspices of the network.

Hydrogen and alternative liquid fuels (HALF) have an essential role in the net-zero transition by providing connectivity and flexibility across the energy system. Despite advancements in the field of hydrogen research both in the physical sciences and engineering, significant barriers remain to the scalable adoption of hydrogen and alternative liquid fuel technologies, and energy services, into the UK's local and national whole system infrastructure. These are technical barriers, organisational barriers, regulatory and societal barriers, and financial barriers. There are, therefore, significant gaps between current levels of hydrogen production, transportation, storage, conversion, and usage, and the estimated requirement for achieving net-zero by 2050. To address this, our proposed research programme has four interlinked work packages. WP1 will develop forward-thinking HALF technology roadmaps. We will assess supply chain availability and security. Selected representative HALF use cases will be used to identify and quantify any opportunities, risks and dependencies within a whole systems analysis. We will also develop an overarching roadmap for HALF system integration in order to inform technology advancement, industry and business development, as well as policy making and social interventions. WP2 will improve HALF characterisation and explore urgent new perspectives on the energy transition, including those related to ensuring resilience and security while also achieving net-zero. We will contrast the energy transition delivered by real incentives/behaviour versus those projected by widely-used optimisation models. The WP provides the whole systems modelling engine of the HI-ACT Hub, with a diverse array of state-of-the-art tools to explore HALF integration. WP 3 will explore the vital coupling of data and information relating to whole system planning and operational decision support, through the creation of a cyber physical architecture (CPA). This will generate new learning on current and future opportunities and risks, from a data and information perspective, which will lead to a whole system ontology for accelerated integration of hydrogen technologies. WP 4 considers options for a future energy system with HALF from a number of perspectives. The first is to consider expert views on HALF energy futures, and the public perceptions of those views. The second perspective considers place-based options for social benefit in HALF energy futures. The third perspective is to consider regulatory and policy options which would better enable HALF futures. Embedded across the research programme is the intent to create robust tools which are investment-oriented in their analysis. A Whole Systems and Energy Systems Integration approach is needed here, in order to better understand the interconnected and interdependent nature of complex energy systems from a technical, social, environmental and economic perspective. The Hub is led by Prof Sara Walker, Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration, supported by a team of 16 academics at a range of career stages. The team have extensive experience of large energy research projects and strong networks of stakeholders across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They bring to the Hub major hydrogen demonstrators through support from partners involved in InTEGReL in Gateshead, ReFLEX in Orkney, and FLEXIS Demonstration in South Wales for example. We shall engage to create a vibrant, diverse, and open community that has a deeper understanding of whole systems approaches and the role of hydrogen and alternative liquid fuels within that. We shall do so in a way which embeds Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the approach. We shall do so in a way which is a hybrid of virtual and in-person field work consultation and develop appropriate digital tools for engagement.

Hydrogen and alternative liquid fuels (HALF) have an essential role in the net-zero transition by providing connectivity and flexibility across the energy system. Despite advancements in the field of hydrogen research both in the physical sciences and engineering, significant barriers remain to the scalable adoption of hydrogen and alternative liquid fuel technologies, and energy services, into the UK's local and national whole system infrastructure. These are technical barriers, organisational barriers, regulatory and societal barriers, and financial barriers. There are, therefore, significant gaps between current levels of hydrogen production, transportation, storage, conversion, and usage, and the estimated requirement for achieving net-zero by 2050. To address this, our proposed research programme has four interlinked work packages. WP1 will develop forward-thinking HALF technology roadmaps. We will assess supply chain availability and security. Selected representative HALF use cases will be used to identify and quantify any opportunities, risks and dependencies within a whole systems analysis. We will also develop an overarching roadmap for HALF system integration in order to inform technology advancement, industry and business development, as well as policy making and social interventions. WP2 will improve HALF characterisation and explore urgent new perspectives on the energy transition, including those related to ensuring resilience and security while also achieving net-zero. We will contrast the energy transition delivered by real incentives/behaviour versus those projected by widely-used optimisation models. The WP provides the whole systems modelling engine of the HI-ACT Hub, with a diverse array of state-of-the-art tools to explore HALF integration. WP 3 will explore the vital coupling of data and information relating to whole system planning and operational decision support, through the creation of a cyber physical architecture (CPA). This will generate new learning on current and future opportunities and risks, from a data and information perspective, which will lead to a whole system ontology for accelerated integration of hydrogen technologies. WP 4 considers options for a future energy system with HALF from a number of perspectives. The first is to consider expert views on HALF energy futures, and the public perceptions of those views. The second perspective considers place-based options for social benefit in HALF energy futures. The third perspective is to consider regulatory and policy options which would better enable HALF futures. Embedded across the research programme is the intent to create robust tools which are investment-oriented in their analysis. A Whole Systems and Energy Systems Integration approach is needed here, in order to better understand the interconnected and interdependent nature of complex energy systems from a technical, social, environmental and economic perspective. The Hub is led by Prof Sara Walker, Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration, supported by a team of 16 academics at a range of career stages. The team have extensive experience of large energy research projects and strong networks of stakeholders across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They bring to the Hub major hydrogen demonstrators through support from partners involved in InTEGReL in Gateshead, ReFLEX in Orkney, and FLEXIS Demonstration in South Wales for example. We shall engage to create a vibrant, diverse, and open community that has a deeper understanding of whole systems approaches and the role of hydrogen and alternative liquid fuels within that. We shall do so in a way which embeds Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the approach. We shall do so in a way which is a hybrid of virtual and in-person field work consultation and develop appropriate digital tools for engagement.