News at the Centre for the History of Medicine

The call for papers is out for Dr Anna Toropova's Cultures of Trauma Workshop, 8-9 May 2025. More information and to apply here.

She is also recruiting for a Research Fellow for a 2-year fixed term contract, starting 1 September 2025. Apply here

Find out more about the Traumatised Minds: Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1971-1953 research project here.

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a Public Engagement Officer on the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Project, ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000‘, led by Principal Investigators Professor Hilary Marland (CHM, University of Warwick) and Dr Catherine Cox (UCD CHOMI).

This post will be based at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick. It is a 24 month, part-time (40% FTE) position commencing as soon as possible after 9 January 2017.

Applications close 1 December 2016.

For further details and to apply see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AVG898/public-engagement-officer-78714-106

or here (University of Warwick HR site)

CHM invites applications for a Research Fellow for the project 'Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000'.

The Research Fellow will conduct a specified programme of research on ‘Women, Health and Maternity in the English and Irish Criminal Justice Systems’, involving independent and collaborative historical research in archives and libraries in England and Ireland, along lines agreed with the project’s PIs. The Research Fellow will also advance and organise public outreach activities central to the project. The post will be based at the Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM), University of Warwick, and supervised by Professor Marland. This is a 3-year post, funded by the Wellcome Trust. 

Full details here