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