Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC)

PGRs

John Ignatius Wareham Paterson

‘Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940), Monstrous Diversity, and Widening Access’, examines the relevance of the long-neglected writer and visual artist's creative responses to trauma and social alienation in the context of the current resurgence of interest in his work and in relation to current challenges around neurodiversity and mental health inclusion.

Niamh Gordon

Niamh's interdisciplinary doctoral research project is a creative-critical exploration of narrative time and how it functions; representations of bereavement by suicide; affective and lyric modes; and motherhood and embodiment.

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A. Ivan Sanchez Hervas

Doctoral thesis on the medico-legislation of sex in early twentieth-century Scotland with a focus on the social history of intersex.

Elizabeth Leemann

Elizabeth's thesis focuses on the soul-body dynamic and motherhood in early modern literature.

Eeva Savolainen

Eeva's PhD examines Gothic representations of diagnostic anxieties in Britain from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century.

Carrie Foulkes

Carrie is a doctoral researcher writing creative nonfiction essays on the body, sickness and health.

Francesca Vale

Frankie Vale

Frankie is a PhD researcher in History of Art, and her research blends scholarly and practice-based lines of enquiry to consider representations of breast cancer surgery in art and curation.

Katherine Prentice

Katherine Prentice

Katherine's current research project "Tales from the Cripped" critiques the medicalised and eugenic gaze present in popular horror cinema, unpacking this particularly in relation to learning disability and disfigurement.

Roslyn Potter

Roslyn Potter

Roslyn's PhD focusses on early modern Scottish women's household manuscripts, concentrating on cultural perceptions of sex through song and poetry.

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Yixuan Bai

Yixuan's project examines our existing theories of pain and folk beliefs about pain and seeks to explain mysterious forms of pain that challenge our scientific and philosophical theorization.

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Emma Ettinger

Emma is a playwright and practice-researcher, exploring how sibling relationships involving autism or neurodivergence are represented and rehearsed in drama.

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Yuchang Zhao

Yuchang is a doctoral researcher in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, focusing on a comparative study of leprosy in medieval China and England.

Francisca Tapia Álvarez

Exploring the representation (and misrepresentation) of disabilities and mental illnesses in the comics medium.

Hannah Westwood

Hannah's PhD project investigates digital women's health interventions, with a particular focus on contraceptive apps.

Jeffrey Hao Li

My research explores health inequalities among women living in the post-industrial region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France, with a focus on how social, cultural, and economic factors shape health and wellbeing.

Esme Paul

Esme is a PhD practice-researcher, exploring how theatre and performance can stage the internal lived experiences of autistic people.

Rebecca Williamson

Rebecca's PhD examines the conceptualisation of abortion in mid-nineteenth century Scotland, utilising legal, medical, and press sources to construct focussed microhistories and analyse grander overarching narratives.

Shona Floate

Shona’s research focuses on queer utopian potential within literary representations of motherhood in autofictional texts.