
Professor Laura Kelly
Humanities
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Contraception and Modern Ireland : A Social History, c.1922-92 Kelly Laura (2023) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108979740 The Virgin condom : campaigning for access to contraceptives across the decades Kelly Laura (2023) Celibacy was often the only option : women's battle to secure contraception in Ireland Kelly Laura, Griffin Niamh (2023) "Please help me, I am so miserable!" : sexual health, emotions and counselling in teen and young adult problem pages in late 1980s Ireland Kelly Laura Medical Humanities (2022) https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2021-012350 Anti-abortion activism in Poland and the Republic of Ireland c.1970s-1990s Kuźma-Markowska Sylwia, Kelly Laura Journal of Religious History Vol 46, pp. 526-551 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12870 Emotions and the Irish medical student, c.1840-1940 Kelly Laura Transforming Medical Education Historical Case Studies of Teaching, Learning and Belonging in Medicine (2022) (2022)
Publications
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Wellcome Trust (External organisation) Advisor 2022 GEDI committee of School of Humanities, Hass Faculty, Strathclyde University (External organisation) Chair 28/10/2021 External Examiner - MA in History at NUI Galway Examiner 2021 Society for the Social History of Medicine (External organisation) Advisor 2019 Reproductive and sexual health activism, c.1960–present Organiser 17/7/2018 Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland (External organisation) Advisor 2018
Society for the Social History of Medicine Research Community (Discretionary Award) Cresswell, Rosemary (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Laura (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025 Society for the Social History of Medicine Events (Discretionary Award) Cresswell, Rosemary (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Laura (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025 Abortion activism in the Republic of Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s Kelly, Laura (Principal Investigator) 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2022 Building Shared Futures: Co-developing Medical Humanities in China and the UK Mills, Jim (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Laura (Research Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2024 An Oral History of Contraception and Abortion in Scotland c. 1960-2000 (Kristin Hay) Kelly, Laura (Principal Investigator) Newlands, Emma (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2022 Psychedelic Birth: R.D. Laing and the Transformation of Psychiatry (Visiting Fellowship: Wendy Kline) Kelly, Laura (Principal Investigator) 02-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2019
Research Interests
- The social history of medicine in modern Ireland
- Gender and medicine
- Contraception and reproductive health
- Activism
- History of sexuality
- The medical profession
- Medical education and student culture
I have received funding awards from the Wellcome Trust, Carnegie Trust, Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Irish Research Council, amongst others.
I currently hold a RSE Personal Research Fellowship for a project on Anti-abortion activism in the Republic of Ireland, c.1972-92 (August 2023 - July 2024).
I recently held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities (June 2016 - February 2021), for a project which explored the history of contraception in Ireland, c.1922-92.