Welcome to our two new colleagues who will be working with us on our Wellcome Trust ‘Living With Feeling’ collaborative award.

Dr Helen Stark has worked in a range of academic, administrative, and engagement roles, including managing the AHRC-funded ‘Voices and Books, 1500-1800’ network. Her PhD in English Literature at Newcastle University was awarded in 2013 for a thesis entitled ‘Men of Feeling: Masculinities and National Identities, 1761-1817’. Helen will be working full-time from 1 January onwards, supporting us on all aspects of the project.

Dr Sarah Chaney is a historian of psychiatry with experience of engagement and museum work, including managing a Wellcome Trust People Award at Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Her PhD was entitled ‘Self-Mutilation and Psychiatry: Impulse, Identity and the Unconscious in British Explanations of Self-Inflicted Injury, c. 1864 – 1914’ – and was awarded by UCL in 2013. Sarah will work with us two days a week (alongside managing the exhibitions programme at the Royal College of Nursing), focussing especially on events and engagement.