As part of the new strategic partnership between Queen Mary and the University of Warwick, the Centres for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary and the History of Medicine at Warwick are collaborating on a history of mental health care in post-war Britain. The first stage of this research has been a witness seminar involving leading policy makers, practitioners, and historians. The Centres are now seeking to appoint two postdoctoral fellows to examine in depth one aspect of this history: the relationship between ethnicity and mental health in Britain since 1945. We look to appoint Fellows who are equipped to undertake advanced level research in the field of post-war British mental health and ethnicity and who have an aptitude for collaborative and interdisciplinary research. The deadline for applications for these two posts is 11 May 2012. Read more….

Queen Mary, University of London, 10-12 September 2012
Proposals are invited on the theme “Emotions, Health and Wellbeing”

See: Call For Papers SSHM 2012 [PDF]

Applications are invited for a Wellcome Trust funded PhD Studentship in Medicine, Emotion and Disease in History. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2012. For more information see: 2012 PhD Studentship.

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our forthcoming international interdisciplinary conference ‘Mastering the Emotions: Control, Contagion and Chaos, 1800 to the Present Day‘. For more details see: Mastering the Emotions Programme [PDF]

We are delighted to announce that Tiffany Watt-Smith, a former PhD student of the Centre and our current Research and Events Officer has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held from 2011-14 at the Centre and in the School of English and Drama to work on “The “Echo Principle”: Bodily Imitation in Science and Culture, 1850-1940″.
April 2011

There will be two lunchtime research seminars in March 2011. See our Events page for full details.

We are pleased to announce two fully funded PhD studentships to start in September 2011: one on “Emotions and the Home in Modern Britain” and the second on “Medicine, Emotion and Disease in History”. Full details on our Funding page.