News at the Centre for the History of Medicine
IAS Fellowship awarded to Ute Oswald
Congratulations to Ute Oswald, postgraduate student in the Centre for the History of Medicine, who has been awarded an IAS Fellowship. She will use this to extend her research on the role of recreational and religious activities in nineteenth-century asylums, revealing their impact on the lives of patients and staff and the extent to which they were deemed restorative.
CHM student Jenny Crane visits Yale
Second year doctoral student Jenny Crane has won a 'Warwick Transatlantic Fellowship' from the Humanities Research Centre at Warwick (see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/wtf/
for details of the scheme). This has enabled her to make a two-week visit to Yale University to pursue her researches and make contact with fellow students and academic staff in the US. You can read a report of her visit on CHM's Student Researcher Activities pages here.
Ethnicity and Mental Health in Post-War Britain - Information
The Centres for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary and the History of Medicine at Warwick are currently collaborating on a history of mental health care in post-war Britain. The first stage of this research has been a witness seminar involving leading policy makers, practitioners, and historians. The appointment of two postdoctoral fellowships, one based at QMUL in the Centre for the History of the Emotions, the other at Warwick in the Centre for the History of Medicine, will provide an opportunity to examine in depth one aspect of this history: the relationship between ethnicity and mental health in Britain since 1945.