Associate Professor of Mental Health Histories @Trentuni, social history of mental healthcare @HealthMemories, trustee @OralhistorySoc.
Nottingham, England
Joined April 2009
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I'm very pleased that my new co-authored article is our today! It explores the use of oral history in doctoral research, the under-investigated emotional labour involved in doing oral history, and the lack of support for dealing with it in HE. @oralhistreview
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A really important, evidence-based, critique of some long-standing fashions in discussing health practitioner/patient relationships.
Today is the launch of my book in paperback! Looking critically at how ‘patient centred care’ has been conceptualised and implemented, it won the BSA/FSHI Book Prize in 2023. To celebrate, there’s 30% discount if you use code EME30 here: bookstore.emerald.com/recons…
@HealthRI_MMU
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As part of the work we do for survivors of #MotherandBabyHomes, we’re working in partnership with Professor Geraldine Brady & Associate Professor Verusca Calabria, on a research project which includes collecting #oralhistory.
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Excited to start our @NTUSocSciences important research project with @CoventryIrish and @LDNIrishCentre @Verusca
As part of the work we do for survivors of #MotherandBabyHomes, we’re working in partnership with Professor Geraldine Brady & Associate Professor Verusca Calabria, on a research project which includes collecting #oralhistory.
Book launch: Emotional labour in oral history research: the hidden toll (2025)
Wed 26 March #oralhistory #OralHistorians #emotions #HigherEd #EthicsofCare #affect #relationality
Registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…
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In this eleventh edition of the In Dialogue series, first established in 2022, our guest speaker, Dr Maya Parmar will be reflecting on the use of oral history in her project, Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present. history.ac.uk/events/dialogu…
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Thrilled to announce the launch of Voices of '74 digital exhibition. Huge thanks to all the team at National Museums NI.
Exhibition trailer:
youtube.com/watch?v=cOJYOEID…
Digital exhibition:
ulstermuseum.org/digital-exh…
@UlsterMuseum @ntu_research
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Meeting of Critical and Creative Approaches to Mental Health Practice (CCrAMHP, Lancaster) Explorations with Madzines.
Everybody welcome! Spread the word.
Date: Saturday 26 October 2024
Time: 2-5pm
Venue: Gregson Centre, Moor Lane Lancaster LA1 3PY
#MadZines
ALT Madzines are a means of challenging and contesting mainstream understandings about mental health. This session will provide a brief introduction to the Madzines research project and our existing collection of Madzines. The collection includes perzines (personal zines) and collective zines and touches on a wide range of topics relating to experiences of madness and distress. We'll bring along zine making materials, and there will then be an opportunity to create Madzines - for contributing, if wished, to the Madzines 'takeover' of the Morecambe and Lancaster zine library. That will be launched on Saturday 9 November(same venue) from 2-4.30pm, in association with 'Being Human: the National Festival of the Humanities'. Everybody welcome to either or both events. CCrAMHP is a discussion group based in Lancaster and this will also be an opportunity to find out more about the group and about Asylum magazine.
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Interested in LGBTQ+ history? We're looking for volunteers to gather stories about our legendary Club as part of our 'Where East Meets West' heritage project. 1st opportunity: Free Oral History Training. Starting Sat 26/10/24 @QueerBritain More info: bit.ly/CKTrainingOralHistory
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📢New #OA #HistPsych article📢
'An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context'
By myself + fab co-authors Kate Davison, Kat Hubbard @SarahVMarks @HSpandler
#HistSex #HistGender #QueerHist #Twitterstorians
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Check out the 2024-25 NTU #oralhistory seminar series with special guest Alessandro Portelli who will visit us in person on 21 May 2025, all welcome. @ChrisReynolds68 @OralHistorySoc @OHS_HigherEd @OHC_SLF @NCL_OralHistory @ntu_research
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On day 2 of 4 Slow Memory core group meeting we heard from local education and funding stakeholders @UlsterMuseum. We were then joined by Bill Rolston to discuss his murals exhibition before hitting Belfast’s streets for a fascinating tour.
On my way to @UniversityLeeds to give a talk on interpreting #oralhistories of past models of mental healthcare as part of the Oral History Collective @OHC_SFL seminar series. Looking forward to meeting all! @ntu_research
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Day 1 of our 4-day Slow Memory core meeting in Belfast @UlsterMuseum was fantastic. Many thanks to all involved. @ntu_research
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𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 for details about our next two events!
19th Sep, online: PhD panel & Prof. Jolly (@ConnHistofBBC)
20th Sep, in-person: @DrCRHill (@ntvhistory), Evelyn Curl (@ADS_Update) & @Verusca (@Trentuni)
🎉 Still time to sign-up! forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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Despite never being a fan of seeing/hearing myself on screen, I am quite pleased how this short video on my research has panned out. Many thanks to all involved in making it happen. ntu.ac.uk/research/researche…
Thank you @HeritageFundUK for producing this case study on inclusive #oralhistories based on a mental health #heritage project I have led for the last 2 years #publichistory @OralHistorySoc @NTUSocSciences @74msrc @Brady_G_M @FHowardNG
Find out more mentalhealthcarememories.co.…
This memory box was created to remember personal histories of mental health care in Nottingham. Find out how @HealthMemories and @Verusca used our funding to run an inclusive oral history project in our latest case study.
Read more 👉 heritagefund.org.uk/projects…
ALT Middle Street Resource Centre workshop.
ALT Nottingham Trent University Middle Street Resource Centre memory box. Credit Philip Formby.
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'Crossing Borders to Visibility' is a 2-part free event exploring shared creativity through Dingleton asylum (1872-2001) & the Crichton Royal Institution (1839–2013), art/culture, health & wellbeing. Corn Exchange Melrose Oct 17 2-4 pm; Crichton Central 24 Oct 2-4 pm. More soon:
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📢 UPCOMING EVENTS 📢
Register here forms.office.com/pages/respo…
1️⃣ 19th Sep, online: PhD/ECR panel + Prof. Jolly (@ConnHistofBBC)
2️⃣ 20th Sep, in-person @LeedsUniHistory: @DrCRHill (@ntvhistory), Evelyn Curl (@ADS_Update) and @Verusca (@Trentuni @OralHistorySoc)
It was fantastic to host the 1st event of #EurohealthHist COST Action Heritage and Public Engagement working group at @NTUSocSciences this week. It brought together academic researchers and GLAM professionals from across 15 countries @profbarrydoyle
Thank you to @nationaltrust Southwell Workhouse for the very informative private tour that kicked off our #EurohealthHist event.
Thank you to all our speakers and those who participated in-person and online. We look forward to future planned in-person and hybrid events in other parts of Europe in the coming year. @profbarrydoyle @Christina_C20 @RE_histories @rebeccawynter