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IAS Fellowship awarded to Ute Oswald

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:25:00 GMT

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

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:23:00 GMT

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

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:20:30 GMT

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.

Ms Laura King announced as new Strategic Award Postdoctoral Fellow

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:29:42 GMT

The Centre is pleased to announce its appointment of Laura King, currently studying her PhD at the University of Sheffield titled 'Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1918-1960, as the Strategic Award Postdoctoral Fellow commencing in October 2011. Laura will run a significant public engagement event in 2012 linked to her research and the Centre's Strategic Award. We are delighted that Laura will be joining the Centre community and very much look forward to working with her in the coming year.

Strategic Award Postdoctoral Fellowship

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:42:09 GMT

The Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM) invites applications for a Research Fellow related to the CHM's Wellcome Trust Strategic Award, Situating Medicine: New Directions in the History of Medicine'. Applications are welcome from internal and external candidates with research expertise in the History of Medicine.

The Fellowship is intended for early career researchers who have no more than two year's postdoctoral research/teaching experience and who have not held a permanent academic post. You will have an excellent academic record and the potential to pursue your chosen research subject at the highest level.

You will be expected to conceptualise and conduct a public engagement project related to you own research interest and in line with the CHM's Wellcome Trust Strategic Award focus areas.

For further information please see the University job vacancy page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/jobsintro/research/

Application deadline: Monday 18 April 2011