Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare Our 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
Contraception & modern Ireland, c1922-92
Dr Laura Kelly
Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship
Ref: 106593/Z/14/Z , £288,444, 2016-2021
Developing international networks and a research agenda to address the historic and contemporary antenatal crisis
Dr Janet Greenlees
Wellcome Trust Ref. 219192/Z/19/Z £28,282.50
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)
The Asian Cocaine Crisis: Pharmaceuticals, consumers and control in South and East Asia, c. 1900-1945
Prof Jim Mills
Wellcome Trust Ref. 200394/Z/15/Z
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Building Shared Futures: Co-developing Medical Humanities in China and the UK
Prof Jim Mills
Wellcome Trust Ref. 215864/Z/19/Z
SA-UK/MH: Medical Humanities co-working between South Africa and the UK
Prof Jim Mills
Wellcome Trust Ref. 223483/Z/21/Z
‘Out on the Pitch: Sexuality and Mental Health in Men's and Women's Sport, 1970-Present’
Prof Matthew Smith
Wellcome Trust Seed Award 207450/Z/17/Z (£75,000)
‘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)
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Feeding Under Fire: Public Engagement - YouTube series
Simon Harold Walker
Poverty, Health, Diet and Education in Glasgow: from Domestic Science to the Allied Health Professions, 1875-1993
Carole McCallum
University Archivist, Glasgow Caledonian University
Wellcome Trust Research Resources Award
206167/Z/17/Z (£54,857)
