
Dr YVONNE MCFADDEN
Lecturer
History
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Area of Expertise
I am modern British historian with an expertise in oral history, material culture, gender and work, domesticity, female suffrage and feminism, and health history
Qualifications
Fellow of HEA
PGCert, Teaching & Learning
PhD History, University of Glasgow
MSc Social History, University of Glasgow/ University of Strathclyde
MA History (1st Class, Honours)
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Publications
- Recounting the untold stories of breast cancer patient experiences : lessons learned from a patient-public involvement and engagement (PPIE) storytelling event
- Cunningham Margaret R, Rattray Nicholas JW, McFadden Yvonne, Berardi Domenica, Daramy Karim, Kelly Patricia E, Galbraith Allison, Lochiel Isobel, Mills Lorraine, Scott Yvonne, Chalmers Susan, Lannigan Alison, Rattray Zahra
- International Journal of Pharmacy Practice Vol 32, pp. 515-523 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpp/riae052
- Lost Village of East Ayrshire : voices from the coalfields
- McFadden Yvonne
- 24 (2024)
- Globalising Housework : Domestic Labour in Middle-Class London Homes: 1850–1914 By Laura Humphreys (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2021) 222 pages.
- McFadden Yvonne
- Home Cultures : The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space Vol 20, pp. 65-70 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17406315.2023.2221060
- The Lost Villages : An Oral History of Miners' Rows and Deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire, Scotland
- McIvor Arthur, McFadden Yvonne
- (2021)
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Teaching
I am currently teaching on the following courses:
Level 1 History
Level 3/4 Hidden Histories: stories of the marginalisated in 20th century Britain
Level 3/4 Sex, Medicine and Society in Britain and Ireland
PGT: Storytelling, Memory and Heritage
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Professional Activities
- Women's History Scotland conference
- Organiser
- 13/9/2025
- They Had A Bond
- Speaker
- 7/6/2025
- Oral History Society Conference
- Organiser
- 6/6/2025
- Art of Family Life
- Consultant
- 1/4/2025
- 'It was a good life': Memories and Landscape in the Mining Communities of East Ayrshire
- Speaker
- 31/3/2024
- International Women's Day 2024
- Recipient
- 8/3/2024
Projects
- Rediscovering Airdrie
- MCFADDEN, Yvonne (Principal Investigator) McIvor, Arthur (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 28-Jan-2025
- The Lost Villages: Deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire
- McIvor, Arthur (Principal Investigator) MCFADDEN, Yvonne (Researcher)
- Oral history project as part of the Coalfield Communities Landscape Partnership (East Ayrshire Council) and funded (£143k) by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic Environment Scotland. See website: https://www.thelostvillages.co.uk
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023