# Students

**Source**: https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/about/students/
**Parent**: https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/about/

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](https://chstmphdblog.wordpress.com/people/).**

### Megan Bridgeland

Sir Geoffrey Jefferson and the History of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Twentieth-Century Britain. [David Shreeve Studentship in the History of Medicine](https://blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2022/09/30/david-shreeve-doctoral-studentship/).\

**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

[incomplete list]

### 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