Students
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.
Rachel Bolin
Atomic Veterans - Unearthing the Scars of the Nuclear Age. Funded by an FBMH International Strategic Partnership award.
Supervisor: Simone Turchetti
Co-supervisor: Per Hogselius, KTH Stockholm
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
Carringtone Kinyianjui
Scientific Databases as Geopolitical Paths Of International Scientific Knowledge Networks. Funded by the European Research Council
Supervisor: Simone Turchetti
Co-supervisor: Kieron Flanagan
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
Krittapak Ngamvaseenont
The Transformation of Modern Psychiatry in Thailand
Supervisor: Carsten Timmermann
Co-supervisor: Robert Kirk
Rachel Swym
Preventing Species Loss for Human Health and Wellbeing: From Nineteenth-Century Conservation to De-extinction and Rewilding. Funded by a President's Doctoral Scholarship.
Supervisor:
Co-supervisor: Duncan Wilson
Co-supervisor: Sadiah Qureshi
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).
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
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)
Peter Eveleigh
The democratisation of flying
Supervisor: Simone Turchetti
Co-supervisor: Vladimir Jankovic
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
Margee O'Mahoney
Science communication in contemporary pubs: intra-specific dialogue among the public at informal events
Supervisor: James Sumner
Co-supervisor: Elizabeth Toon
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
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
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
Yuting Yao
Chimney under Reconstruction or Decoration: Climate Change Communication and Negotiation in China
Supervisor: Vladimir Jankovic
Co-supervisor: Elizabeth Toon