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I am an AHRC SWWDTP PhD Researcher in History exploring material cultures of NHS hospitals. My doctoral research utilises sensory, disability, and hospital histories alongside phenomenological approaches to material culture to understand embodied and affective relations to hospital objects and spaces.

My project moves beyond the visual idea of hospitals and, in conjunction with the Science Museum Group, focuses on how historic objects felt, smelled, and sounded. In doing so, I am researching how hospital spaces have been shaped by objects as ‘things’ felt, and how this can speak to national narratives of change in hospital treatment and design as well as more local stories of individual medical experiences

  • 19th and 20th Century Social and Cultural History
  • History of Medicine
  • Disability History 
  • Sensory History 
  • Space and Place 

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