Associate Professor of Mental Health Histories @Trentuni, social history of mental healthcare @HealthMemories, trustee @OralhistorySoc.
Nottingham, England
Joined April 2009
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Verusca Calabria retweeted
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.
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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
Verusca Calabria retweeted
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
Verusca Calabria retweeted
📢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.…
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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.
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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
Verusca Calabria retweeted
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…
Verusca Calabria retweeted
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…
Verusca Calabria retweeted
'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)
Verusca Calabria retweeted
📢New #MedHums event📢
Digital Wellbeing: A Critical Creative Workshop, featuring the very fabulous @DrSophieKH and Jwana Aziz.
13 Sept, 10:30-12 UK time
Details and free registration:
eventbrite.ie/e/digital-well…
#MentalHealthHumanities #MedicalHumanities
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Verusca Calabria retweeted
📣 Exciting news! After months of preparation, I am thrilled to share that the Annual @MemStudiesAssoc Conference will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from July 14-18, 2025, with the theme, "Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability." #MSA2025 #MemoryStudies
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Look forward to Doors Open Day 7th September: we'll welcome guests in Grierson House. Heritage Officer @Val_Bold talks about 'The Crichton & War'; @CrichtonTrust Head of Research @JennifChallinor guides a building tour. Refreshments provided. All free:
doorsopendays.org.uk/regions…
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Our latest blog looks at an event last June that we hope will kickstart a project about Leicester's Victorian terraced housing. We aim to run more events and apply for funding. In the meantime, this is the story so far: eastmidsoha.home.blog/2024/0…
Verusca Calabria retweeted
Brilliant visit to @bethlemmuseum with @uteoswald for the Asylum project. Huge thanks to @dgowerluck for helping to make the day such a productive one.
ALT Signage for Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Museum of the Mind
ALT A building which houses the Museum of the Mind
ALT Two statues in the entrance to the Museum of the Mind
ALT A foundation stone of Bethlem Hospital dated 8 July 1930.
Verusca Calabria retweeted
With some fabulous abstracts already in my inbox, I'm looking for just a couple more chapters for an edited volume on Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Details here: musichealthandhappiness.word…
