Meet the Team
| Image | Name | Designation | Short Bio | Read More |
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 | Dr Lisa Smith | Chair | Lisa is a historian of medicine and gender in England and France (ca. 1650-1820) who has published widely on gender, embodiment, health, and the household. She is also a digital historian. Lisa has wr… | |
 | Dr Claire Jones | Secretary | Claire is a medical historian of Britain since 1750 and her research centres on the relationship between medicine, health and commerce. Claire is also an experienced museum professional, and has worke… | |
 | Dr Richard McKay | Treasurer | Richard is a twentieth- and twenty-first-century historian of medicine, public health, and sexuality. His research focuses on the social, political, cultural, and medical aspects of infectious disease… | |
 | Dr Rosemary Cresswell | Wellcome-funded networks and events co-ordinator | Rosemary is a historian of health, humanitarianism, charity and voluntarism from c.1850-2020. She is currently writing The History of the British Red Cross, 1870-2020: Health and Humanitarianism, und… | |
 | Professor Matthew Smith | Policy & Publicity | Matthew’s research interests include mental health and psychiatry, allergy and immunology, food and nutrition and child health, mainly focussing on North America and the UK in the nineteenth and twent… | |
 | Dr Martin Moore | Membership Secretary | Martin is a medical historian of Britain in the twentieth century, with specialist interests in the social, cultural and political histories of healthcare. His research has largely focused on the shif… | |
 | Dr Vanessa Heggie | Engagement & Communications | Vanessa is a historian of science and medicine in the modern period. Her research ranges widely over the history of biosciences and health, from sex testing in sport to domestic science education. Van… | |
 | Dr Manikarnika Dutta | Postgraduate & Early Career Officer | Manikarnika’s core research and teaching focus on the histories of health, disease, environment and colonialism in South Asia, especially the region’s global and transnational encounters in the 19th- … | |
 | Dr Rebecca Wynter | Roy Porter Chair | Rebecca is a historian of medicine and mental health since 1750 and Researcher in Health Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently researching the history of policing and ‘mental dis… | |
 | Dr Elsa Richardson | Conference Officer | Elsa focuses mainly on late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain, with interests in popular cultures of health and wellbeing and has explored practices in Christianity, neurology, folklore, … | |
 | Dr Felicity McGeown | Webmaster | Felicity is an Anthropologist and early modern historian. Her research is split into two specific areas, the first explores performance, performativity and identity for disabled people within the nine… | |
 | Dr Stephen Mawdsley | Editorial Board Representative | Stephen Mawdsley is a social historian of modern American medicine, public health and disability. His research on the history of polio examined race relations, reactions to the vaccine, and medical ex… |