Dr Angela Turner

Senior Teaching Fellow

History

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Personal statement

My teaching and research interests lie in the fields of health and social history. I have keen interest in the history of disability, the history of industrial injury and rehabilitation, the history of disability sport and oral history. I teach a number of undergraduate courses relating to my research interests and am an active member of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare and the Scottish Oral History Centre. Teaching Year 1 History 1B Year 2 Disease and Society Year 3/4 Disability in Modern Britain Bombers and Mash: Britain and the Home Front 1939-1945 Oral History Theory and Practice Research From 2011 - 2015 I was a researcher on the Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948 (Wellcome Trust Programme Award)

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Publications

Inclusion in the Paralympic Pathway - classification and future plans
Turner Angela
FIG Paralympic Working Group Meeting, Cairo (2023)
Disability and inclusion in coaching and learning
Turner Angela
British Gymnastics Coaching Apprentice Residential (2023)
Inclusive environments and disabled voices
Turner Angela
British Gymnastics Community Consultation (2022)
Inclusive disability sporting environments
Turner Angela
Swedish Gymnastics Federation Conference (2021)
'Bottom dog men' : disability, social welfare and advocacy in the Scottish coalfields in the interwar years, 1918–1939
Turner Angela, McIvor Arthur
Scottish Historical Review Vol 96, pp. 187-213 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2017.0335
Disability and medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Turner Angela
Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948, International Symposium, Swansea (2015)

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Professional Activities

‘Inclusive environments and disabled voices’
Speaker
25/5/2022
External Examiner
Examiner
2022
Social History (Journal)
Peer reviewer
2022
'Inclusive Disability Sporting Environments’
Speaker
10/10/2021
Social History of Medicine (Journal)
Peer reviewer
2021
External Examiner
Examiner
2021

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Projects

Chair - International Paralympic Working Group
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Leading international working group for FIG on disability classification and the development of international pathways and relationships.
30-Jan-2021
Chair - British Gymnastics Disability Panel
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Provide ongoing support and research for the organisation in relation to areas such as inclusion and disability classification and helping to design EDI strategic plan and organisational structure.
31-Jan-2021
World Down Syndrome Congress 2018 - Commissioners Project
Turner, Angela (Academic)
Worked with DSS for a year creating accessible training for DSS and supporting commissioners (adults with DS) in the creation of a ‘community map’ and individual ‘life history’ presentations at the World Down Syndrome Congress.
01-Jan-2017 - 01-Jan-2018
Creation of Disability Inclusion Module
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Worked with British Gymnastics and Scottish Disability Sport to create new Inclusion Module for British Gymnastics to help train coaches to be more inclusive in their coaching practice and to increase opportunities for disabled participants.
01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2016
ENABLE Scotland 'History Boys and Girls’ HLF Project
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Academic Adviser/Trainer for Heritage Lottery Fund project with ENABLE Scotland which also focusses on experiences of special education. Created bespoke accessible oral history training workshops for school pupils with ASN and supported the oral history project and production of short film on the history of special education.
01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2017
War and Disability in Scotland, 1939-1950: A Pilot Oral History Study
McIvor, Arthur (Principal Investigator) Turner, Angela (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2016

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Dr Angela Turner
Senior Teaching Fellow
History

Email: angela.turner@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8369