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Department of History

Joseph Price

Research

I am a first-year PhD student researching the making of sexual health at university in post-war Britain. Although universities have provoked public debates and opposition regarding youth sexuality and sexual health, their historical role in these issues remains underexplored. My project aims to fill this gap by examining how universities and their students shaped the concept of sexual health and responded to changing sexual cultures and sexual politics across the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. My work explores how the concept of sexual health, its practices and discourses have been produced and shaped by universities and its students, and how these have been perceived, adopted, and resisted by young people since the Second World War.

I am supervised by Professor Mathew Thomson, Dr Claudia Stein and Dr Anne Hanley.

The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Research Interests

  • History of sexuality
  • History of medicine
  • LGBTQ+ history
  • Gender history
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Joseph.Price@warwick.ac.uk

Publications

Journal Articles

'The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the University of Warwick, 1987-1994', Midland History, 2 (2024), 225-243

'The CIRCLE care home guide: a co-designed resource on LGBTQ+ inclusion for care homes', Health Expectations (forthcoming)

'The Making Of “Underserved Communities” in the UK: A Critical Reflection on Language in Health Research' (forthcoming)

'Involving underserved communities in mental health research: A qualitative study in Kent, UK' (forthcoming)

Blog Posts

‘It’s a Sin - COVID-19’, History at Northampton Blog (March 2021)

‘How to find primary sources related to homosexuality in the nineteenth century in the National Archives’, History at Northampton Blog (March 2021)

‘A story of solidarity: Miners and the Gay Community’, History at Northampton Blog (July 2020)

Conferences & Presentations

'Engaging people with severe mental illness in Kent with mental health research', INTERACT: Mental Healthcare in Kent, Turner Contemporary, Margate, April 2024

‘Student Sex and Sexual Health at the University of Warwick, 1984-1994', The MRC at 50 Symposium, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, September 2023

Awards & Prizes

  • Awarded Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) doctoral studentship funding (2024)

  • Awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Midlands4Cities (M4C) doctoral studentship funding, but declined for ESRC funding (2024)

  • Winner of the 2023 Midlands History Essay Prize Competition

  • Winner of the University of Northampton BA History dissertation prize (2022)

Academic Profile

  • 2024-2028: PhD in History, University of Warwick
  • 2022-2023: MA in History of Medicine, University of Warwick (with distinction)
  • 2019-2022: BA in History, University of Northampton (first-class)