Collaborators
Dr Allan Beveridge (Consultant Psychiatrist, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline)
Email: allanbeveridge@nhs.net
Dr Gayle Davis (Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Medicine, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh)
Email: Gayle.Davis@ed.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/gdavis/
Dr Sheila Dickson (Senior Lecturer in German, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow)
Email: sheila.dickson@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/sheiladickson/
Research Interests: Sheila Dickson’s main research focus is the development of narratives of illness in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. She is currently co-editing a digital critical edition of the influential German journal Magazine for Empirical Psychology, (1783-1793), which consists of medical case histories submitted by doctors, patients and creative writers (telota.bbaw.de/mze/)
Dr Christine Ferguson (Lecturer in Victorian Literature, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow)
Email: Christine.Ferguson@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/englishliterature/staff/christineferguson/
Dr Catherine Jones (Lecturer in English Literature, College of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Aberdeen)
Email: c.a.jones@abdn.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/english/staff/details.php?id=c.a.jones
Research Interests: Literature and Medicine; Psychiatry and Literature; Medical Ethics; Music and Medicine; Medicine in Atlantic History; William Cullen, John Gregory and Benjamin Rush
Dr Iain McClure (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Edenhall Hospital, Musselburgh)
Email: imcclure@nhs.net
Dr Kenneth Mullen (Lecturer in Medical Sociology, University of Glasgow)
Email: Kenneth.Mullen@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/staff/kennethmullen/
Prof Malcolm Nicolson (Professor of the History of Medicine, Social and Economic History, University of Glasgow)
Email: Malcolm.Nicolson@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/malcolmnicolson/
Dr Matthew Smith (Lecturer in Medical History, School of Humanities, Strathclyde University)
Email: m.smith@strath.ac.uk
Dr Vicky Long (Lecturer in the History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University)
Email: victoria.long@gcu.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gcu.ac.uk/cshhh/centrecommunity/staff/drvickylong/
Research Interests: My research explores the history of modern British health services, focussing on the social, political and economic contexts in which healthcare services have been negotiated and contested, and the ways in which these negotiations affect conceptions and experiences of illness and disability. I am currently working on two projects: a monograph exploring the efforts made by healthcare professionals to destigmatise mental illness in twentieth-century Britain and a collaborative project, ‘Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948’.
Early Career
Dr Cheryl McGeachan (Geography, Glasgow University)
Email: cheryl.mcgeachan@gmail.com
Research Interests: Cheryl McGeachan is a Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow. Her recently completed doctoral thesis, entitled 'Enticing Ghosts to Life: Exploring the Historical and Cultural Geographies of R. D. Laing' (2010), creates a geographical biography of Laing's early life and work, in order to uncover the importance of certain spaces, sites and places in the creation of his broader thinking on issues of mental ill-health. Her research interests include the history of psychiatry, therapeutic landscapes, art therapy, and the interrelation between biography and geography.
Dr Alette Willis (School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh)
Email: a.willis@ed.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/health/people/people-directory?person_id=97&cw_xml=profile.php
Dr Claire McKechnie (Co-ordinator of the Edinburgh University Medical Humanities Research Network & Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
Email: Claire.McKechnie@ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Claire McKechnie has recently graduated with a PhD in Victorian literature from the University of Edinburgh. She has published in the Quarterly Review and the Journal of Literature and Science and she has an article forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Prose entitled 'Man's Best Fiend: Darwin, Rabies and the Gothic Dog.' Claire is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh where she is working on a new project entitled 'Cancer and the Victorian Literary Imagination'. She runs the Edinburgh University Medical Humanities Research Network and teaches English and Scottish literature and she is course organiser and lecturer on the medicine and literature course for medical students at the University of Edinburgh. She is also teaching on the 'Gothic Imagination' MLitt at the University of Stirling.
Dr Jennifer Bann (Research Associate in English Literature, University of Glasgow)
Email: Jennifer.Bann@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/jenniferbann/
Research interests: Dr Jennifer Bann is Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen, 1710-1790, at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Her research interests are in eighteenth-century medicine, the history of paediatrics and childcare, and the application of digital techniques to research in the medical humanities.
Dr Megan Coyer (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical History and Humanities, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow)
Email: Megan.Coyer@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/megancoyer/
Research Interests: Megan Coyer is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and her current project is entitled 'The Medical Blackwoodians and Medico-literary Synergy in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press'. She received her PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow in 2010 and has published several articles and chapters on Scottish Literature and medical culture. She has also acted as research assistant for the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of The Collected Works of James Hogg and the Abbotsford Library Project. Her first degree is a B.S. in Neuroscience from Lafayette College (Easton, PA USA). Her research interests include: Literature and Medicine, Medical Humanities, Scottish Literature, Romanticism, and the Periodical Press.
Dr Katherine Inglis
Email: k.inglis@ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Katherine Inglis received her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, in 2009, and joined the University of Edinburgh as Chancellor’s Fellow in Medical Humanities in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures in 2012. She teaches English and Scottish literature, and supervises the research projects of students enrolled on the Intercalated Degree (B.Med.Sci) in Literature and Medicine. Her research explores cultural perceptions of book destruction and censorship, and the intersections between literature of the long nineteenth century, science and biomedicine. These two areas of interest are brought together in her current project, an exploration of the influence of nineteenth-century medicine (particularly contagionist writing, bacteriology, the public health movement, and medical theories of ‘the diseases of civilization’) on the language used by censors, vigilance societies, and legislators to call for texts to be censored, suppressed and destroyed. Her doctoral research examined the roles played by objects (primarily objects associated with scientific investigation and medical practice such as anatomical waxworks, obstetric ‘automata’, and instruments used in eye surgery) in the fiction of James Hogg, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. Recently, she has examined the portrayal of blood transfusion and resuscitation in the fiction of Scott, George Eliot, and Dickens, and is currently researching the representation of community, ‘disease networks’, and impurity in the writing of Elizabeth Gaskell. Her work has been published in the Journal of Victorian Culture, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Studies in Hogg and his World, Carlyle Studies Annual, and the George Eliot Review.