Students

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Our postgraduate research students are undertaking projects in a range of areas.

Square brackets in the research student listings indicate a working title. Please contact students via their supervisors.

PhD students

Please visit the CHSTM PhD blog for detailed information on individual projects.

Megan Bridgeland

Sir Geoffrey Jefferson and the History of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Twentieth-Century Britain. David Shreeve Studentship in the History of Medicine.\

Supervisor: Robert Kirk\ Co-supervisor: Carsten Timmermann

Daniela Dandes

Canon questioning: a case study of Stefania Maracineanu's presence in the history of nuclear science

Supervisor: Simone Turchetti\ Co-supervisor: James Sumner

Peter Eveleigh

The democratisation of flying

Supervisor: Simone Turchetti\ Co-supervisor: Vladimir Jankovic

Russell Haynes

Cold War-era debates surrounding controversial activities in space, focussing on the role of the Consultative Group on Potentially Harmful Effects of Space Experiments.

Supervisor: Vladimir Jankovic\ Co-supervisor: Duncan Wilson

Beck Chamberlain Heslop

Envisioning Access: The co-production of mobility technologies and visually impaired users in Britain, c. 1960-1990\ Funded by Economic and Social Research Council NWSSDTP

Supervisor: Neil Pemberton\ Co-supervisor: Duncan Wilson

Carringtone Kinyianjui

Scientific Databases as Geopolitical Paths Of International Scientific Knowledge Networks\ Funded by the European Research Council

Supervisor: Neil Pemberton\ Co-supervisor: Duncan Wilson

Xinyue Li

The Transformation of Meteorological Knowledge in Modern China (1840 – 1937)\ Funded by a CSC Scholarship

Supervisor: Vladimir Jankovic\ Co-supervisor: Simone Turchetti

Yixuan Li

Historical and Sociological Research on Farmed Chicken in China: Use of Antibiotics and its impact on Human and Environmental Health. Funded by a CSC Scholarship

Supervisor: Vladimir Jankovic\ Co-supervisor: Rob Kirk

Sotirios Mikros

Biodiversity data and the IUCN Red List. Science Diplomacy in the making. Funded by the European Research Council.

Supervisor: Simone Turchetti\ Co-supervisor: Gordon Barrett

Alice Naisbitt

A UK backchannel? A science diplomacy history of the British Council in the 20th Century and beyond. ESRC CASE studentship\

Supervisor: Simone Turchetti\ Co-supervisor: Kieron Flanagan

Krittapak Ngamvaseenont

The Transformation of Modern Psychiatry in Thailand\

Supervisor: Carsten Timmermann\ Co-supervisor: Robert Kirk

Margee O'Mahoney

Science communication in contemporary pubs: intra-specific dialogue among the public at informal events

Supervisor: James Sumner\ Co-supervisor: Elizabeth Toon

Eleanor Shaw

The History of the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA)\ Funded by the BJA

Supervisor: Stephanie Snow\ Co-Supervisor: Carsten Timmermann\ Supervisory representative at the BJA: Jenny Hunter, Liverpool

Iain Sturges

Translational Imaging of the Brain in the Twentieth Century: Patterns and Trends in Computerised Tomography (CT), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) devices\ Funded by the ESRC

Supervisor: Robert Kirk\ Co-Supervisor: Carsten Timmermann

Jane Whittaker

Physicians, Fasting and Fattening between 1650 and 1870: Does culture create eating disorders or do eating disorders create culture?

Supervisor: Carsten Timmermann\ Co-Supervisor: Harriet Palfreyman

Alumni

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Kathryn Ashill

Working for Wellbeing\ Funded by the Wellcome Trust

Supervisor:  Robert Kirk\ Co-supervisor: Simon Parry, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Po-Hsun Chen

Herbal Toxicity Counts: Negotiating Herbal Toxicity for Identity and Modernity of Diasporic Chinese Countries after World War II. Scholarship of Government Sponsorship for Overseas Study. Taiwan Ministry of Education.

Supervisor: Ian Burney\ Co-supervisor: Aya Homei (Japanese and East Asian Studies; School of Arts, Languages and Culture).

Iqra Choudhry

Unlocking the SCAR archive: the sixty-year long consolidation of Antarctic governance through polar research\ ESRC-funded collaborative studentship with SCAR

Supervisor: Simone Turchetti\ *Supervisory representative at SCAR*: Jenny Baeseman

Michaela Clark

Curating the Clinical: A Visual and Material Investigation of Cape Town's Historical Medical Photographs\ Funded by a University of Manchester Presidential Studentship

Supervisor: Carsten Timmermann\ Co-supervisor: Kostas Arvanitis (Art History and Cultural Practices; School of Arts, Languages and Cultures)

Leah de Quattro

Knowing Childbirth: Birth Stories and Collective Learning\ Funded by the ESRC

Supervisor: Carsten Timmermann\ Co-Supervisors: Sarah Collins, Manchester Medical School, and Vicky Singleton, Sociology, Lancaster University

Francesca Elliott

Power-assisted learning? Exhibiting, interpreting and teaching on technology in the twentieth-century industrial city\ AHRC-funded collaborative award with the Science Museum

Supervisor: James Sumner\ Supervisory representative at MMSI: Jan Hicks and Sarah Baines

Jemma Houghton

Plants in the era of synthetics: a history of medicinal plants and their place in twentieth century pharmacy\ Williamson Studentship

Supervisor: Pratik Chakrabarti\ Co-supervisor: Ian Burney

Alexander Longworth-Dunbar

Materialising the Virtual: a Critical History of Contemporary Popular Conceptions of the Internet\ Funded by the ESRC

Supervisor: James Sumner

Robert Naylor

UK Applied Meteorology and Climatology 1945-present \ Funded by the ESRC

Supervisor: Vladimir Jankovic \ Co-Supervisor: David Schultz, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences \ Supervisory Representative at the Royal Meteorological Society: Liz Bentley

Cam Sharp Jones

Colonial ethnography and human antiquity in India, 1820-1900\ Funded by the Leverhulme Trust

Supervisors: Pratik Chakrabarti\ Co-supervisor: Ian Burney

Yuting Yao

Chimney under Reconstruction or Decoration: Climate Change Communication and Negotiation in China

Supervisor: Vladimir Jankovic\ Co-supervisor: Elizabeth Toon