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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