Centre for the Social History of Health & HealthcareOur research

Members of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow work on the modern world since 1800 and in places as diverse as the UK, Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe.

Topics include contraception and sexuality; family health and medical services; occupational health and medicine; disability; the history of psychiatry; conflict and warfare; drugs, pharmaceuticals and intoxicants.

Individual publications and interests can be found on Our experts pages and some of our most recently funded projects are outlined below.

 

Cold War Mentalities

Cold War Mentalities: Mental Health, Migration, Cultural Exchange and the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System

Hannah Proctor

Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship, Ref. 218123/Z/19/Z, £173,333,70,  2019-2022

Risky hormones, pregnant patients and the contested science of birth defects: the rise and fall of hormone pregnancy tests in the FRG and UK, 1950-81

Dr Jesse Olszynko-Gryn

AHRC Ref:  AH/T013281/1 (£270,000)

Building Shared Futures: Co-developing Medical Humanities in China and the UK

Prof Jim Mills

Wellcome Trust Ref. 215864/Z/19/Z 

Place holder for SA-UK MH project

SA-UK/MH: Medical Humanities co-working between South Africa and the UK

Prof Jim Mills

Wellcome Trust Ref. 223483/Z/21/Z 

‘The Effects Can Last Forever’: Ecstasy's Risks and Pleasures in Britain, 1985-2000

Dr Peder Clark

Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship
Ref: 223559/Z/21/Z, £195,286, 2021-2024

Uncovering the history of women's football in Scotland, 1880-1939

Dr Fiona Skillen

The International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES)
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)

‘One-Parent Families and Vulnerability Network’ (O-PFV)

Dr Janet Greenlees - Principal Investigator
Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne - Co-Investigator

AHRC Research Network Grant

AH/Y007077/1 (£46,494), 2024-2025

Glasgow Caledonian University
Wellcome Trust Website