Dr Fabiola Creed
- Research Associate (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
email:
Fabiola.Creed@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3077-5002Biography
From 2024-30, Dr Fabiola Creed is a Research Associate on Professors Anna Greenwood, Alex Mold and Heather Wardle’s project, Kicking the Habit: Historicising ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025 (Wellcome Trust funded). Her strand explores the gambling industry’s sponsorship of sport (football, F1, rugby, cricket and tennis).
From 2021-23, she was a Research Fellow on Emeritus Professor Hilary Marland’s project The Last Taboo of Motherhood?: Postnatal Mental Disorders in Twentieth-Century Britain (University of Warwick, Wellcome Trust funded).
From 2020-21, she undertook a Early Career Fellowship on the Medical Humanities China-UK Exchange Programme (Universities of Strathclyde, Manchester and Shanghai), and a IAS Fellowship (Warwick).
From 2015-20, she completed her Medical Humanties MA/PhD on tanning technologies, notably sunbeds (Warwick), and was awarded a Secondment Fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
Fabiola has published on the history of maternal mental illness, and tanning culture in twentieth and early twenty-first century Britain. Her first book is free to digitally access: The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture From Fad to Fear (Bloomsbury, 6 February 2025).
She is passionate about using her research to better inform policy and enjoys making history accessible to the public. Fabiola has provided expertise via podcasts, digital press (Refinery29 and I-News), radio (Clyde 1), and also archive, campaign and government groups.
Research interests
Fabiola is interested in the commercial determinants of health, specialising in the history of industry, advertising, technology, mass media, (patient-)consumer narratives, and stigma in twentieth and early twenty-first-century Britain.
Research groups
- Sociology
Publications
Prior publications
ORCiD
Fabiola Creed, (2025) Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain Women's History Review (doi: 10.1080/09612025.2024.2327895); source: Crossref
Fabiola Creed, Hilary Marland, (2023) Improving Maternity Care through Women’s Voices: The Women’s Health Strategy Continues a Long Process of Advocacy History & Policy ; source: Fabiola Creed
Fabiola Creed, (2022) From ‘Immoral’ Users to ‘Sunbed Addicts’: The Media–Medical Pathologising of Working-class Consumers and Young Women in Late Twentieth-century England Social History of Medicine (doi: 10.1093/shm/hkac012); source: Crossref
Fabiola Creed, (2022) Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business Cultural and Social History (doi: 10.1080/14780038.2022.2082083)(issn: 1478-0038)(issn: 1478-0046); source: Fabiola Creed
Fabiola Creed, (2020) The ‘Sedimented Meanings and Compounded Politics’ of Skin Lighteners Metascience (doi: 10.1007/s11016-020-00551-x)(issn: 0815-0796)(issn: 1467-9981); source: Fabiola Creed
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Fabiola Creed, Rowena Bermingham, (2019) Improving witness testimony (doi: 10.58248/pn607); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Fabiola Creed, (2019) Tania Woloshyn, Soaking up the Rays Social History of Medicine (doi: 10.1093/shm/hkz005)(issn: 0951-631X)(issn: 1477-4666); source: Fabiola Creed
Grants
2023: Global Research Priority, and Centre for the History of Medicine Funding, Univeristy of Warwick (with Emeritus Professor Hilary Marland)
2022-3: Wellcome Trust Research Enrichment, Public Engagement Award (led by Emeritus Prof. Marland)
2022-3: Warwick University’s Arts & Humanities Impact Award (led by Emeritus Prof. Marland)
2020: Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, ECR Fellowship Award
2019: Wellcome Trust, Humanities and Social Science Secondment Fellowship Award, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
2016-20: Wellcome Trust, Medical Humanities PhD Award
2015-6: Wellcome Trust, History of Medicine MA Award
2012: University of Liverpool, Study Abroad Semester Award for Monash University, Australia.
Supervision
Fabiola is open - and looking forward - to supervising PhD students and their projects, especially (but not exclusively) on the history of controversial industries and products in twentieth and twenty-first-century Britain.
Teaching
She has lectured and taught both undergraduates and postgraduates on History of Britain, Medical History, and Media and Health modules/courses at the University of Warwick (2022-24) and Strathclyde (2020-21).
