University of Stirling joins NNMHR Steering Group
The NNMHR is delighted to welcome the University of Stirling as the newest members of the Steering Group. Research in the Medical Humanities at the University of Stirling includes ongoing or recently completed individual and collaborative projects involving scholars based at the following divisions or institutes at Stirling: History, Heritage and Politics; Communications, Media and Culture; Law and Philosophy; Literature and Languages; Health Sciences; Institute for Social Marketing; and the University Archives. The researchers working on Medical Humanities projects at Stirling vary from Professors to PhD students, but also in terms of gender and ethnicity. The themes of such research cover the following topics:
- HIV and AIDS activism, a large collaborative project on the global history of HIV and AIDS activism, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
- Health, Memory and Place, work done at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory
- Alcohol policy: for instance, the project ‘Regulating alcohol packaging and supply to protect health in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from policy systems in Malawi and Uganda’(RAPSSA, https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FV015257%2F1).
- Household Air Pollution: for instance, the COmmunities Facilitating incREasing Smoke-free Homes (CO-FRESH) project in Malaysia and Indonesia ( https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FW027801%2F1).
- Experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic: for example, the University of Stirling Pandemic Oral History Project
- Care, like the ‘New Futures of Care’ project
- Experiences of ageing
- Health communication, like work with young mothers and various studies involving healthcare professionals in areas of multiple deprivations.
- Health and the arts, like the projects Gothic Diagnostics in British Fiction 1830-1897, and “‘Now thou art an O without a figure’: A Theopoetics of Apophatic Embodiment in Early Modern Thought”
- Health and sports, for instance: ‘Care, Consent and Sport Related Concussion: Ethico-Legal Investigation into Head Injuries in Boxing, Football, and Rugby Union’.