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
Kathryn Ashill
Working for Wellbeing
Funded by the Wellcome Trust
Supervisor: Robert Kirk
Co-supervisor: Simon Parry, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
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
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).
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)
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
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
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
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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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
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