My current and recent PhD students have researched a variety of topics, including pregnancy in Georgian England; the Royal Albert Asylum; therapeutic activities in nineteenth-century asylums; clean eating; old age and mental illness in Victorian Britain; medicine and health in the Mediterranean islands; madness in Bourbon Mexico, 1713-1821; women and depression in interwar Britain; dirt, health and the home gardener in Britain, 1900-1970, and the history of Midland dispensaries 1820-1920. Many have gone on to have academic careers in the UK and overseas; others have flourished in careers as policy makers, in research support, government and the charity sector.

Completed PhDs (with date of viva):

• Cathy McClive, 'Bleeding Flowers and Waning Moons: A History of Menstruation in France, c.1495-1761' (2004)
• Jane Adams, 'The Mixed Economy of Medical Services in Herefordshire c.1770-c.1850' (2004)
• Vicky Long, 'Changing Public Representations of Mental Illness in Britain, 1870-1970' (2004)
• Sheryl Root, 'Healing and Touch, c.1890-1950' (2005)
• Lisa Petermann, 'The Development of Paediatrics in France and England, 1760-1883' (2007)
• Kathryn Miele, 'Representing Empathy: The Defence of Vulnerable Bodies in Victorian Medical Culture' (2008)
• Judith Lockhart, '"Truly a Hospital for Women": The Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, 1871-1948' (2008)
• Brooke Whitelaw, 'Industry and the Interior Life: Work, Mental Health and Perceptions of Self in Britain, 1900-1951' (2009)
• Sue Aspinall, 'Environmentalism in Representations of Women and Exercise in Britain 1880s to 1920s' (2009)
• Gaby Robilliard, 'Midwives and Identity in Early Modern Germany' (2010)
• Stephen Soanes, 'Convalescence and the Public Asylum in England, 1918-39' (2011)
• Emily Andrews, 'Old Age Mental Illness in Britain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century' (2014)
• Josette Duncan, 'Medical Charities in Malta, Cyprus and the Ionian Islands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries' (2014)
• Rebecca Noble, 'Madness and the Regulation of the Self in Bourbon Mexico’ (2017)
• Jean Hwang, 'Women and Depression in Interwar Britain: Case Notes, Narratives and Experiences' (2018)
• John Wilmott, 'Medical Dispensaries in Warwickshire: Their Place in Local Health Care, 1820-1880' (2021)
• Sophie Greenway, 'Growing Well: Dirt and Health in the Home and Garden in Britain, 1930-1970' (2022)
• Ute Oswald, 'Entertaining the Insane: Recreation in Nineteenth-Century British Asylums' (2022)
• Louise Morgan, 'Eat Better, Not Less: Contextualising Clean Eating in Contemporary British History' (2023)
• Samir Hamdoud, 'Young People and Disability: Medical Science, Education and Care at the Royal Albert Asylum, 1870-1920' (2024)

MA dissertation topics supervised include:

• Man-midwifery in Leeds 1759-1807
• Eighteenth-Century Naval Doctors
• The Founding of the Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum in the 1850s
• Death, Burial and Friendly Societies in Nineteenth-Century Leicestershire
• Women and Charity in Birmingham 1870-1900
• The Mental After Care Association
• Women Physicians in the First World War
• Civilian Asylum Patients in the First World War
• Medical Services, the Red Cross and Rehabilitation in the Second World War
• The British Nursing Profession in Crisis 1939-45
• Maternity Care and Women’s Work during the Second World War
• Poor Law Officers and the Media
• The Dangerous Trades of Cornish Tin Miners
• The Health of Agricultural Workers in the Twentieth Century
• Scanning the Body
• Constipation and Modernity
• Convalescence and Charity
• Idiocy in Warwick County Asylum
• Approaches to Breast Cancer in the Middlesex Hospital in the Late Nineteenth Century
• Schizophrenia and the National Fellowship in late Twentieth-Centruy Britain
• Coventry Girls Industrial School in the Early Twentieth Century