Dr Oisín Wall is an historian and curator at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland at UCD. His current research is focused on the instrumentalisation of health by prisoners' protests in the 1970s and 80s. 

His previous work has included a monograph on the relationship between psychiatry and the counter-culture in 1960s London, The British Anti-Psychiatrists (Routledge: 2017); Journeys Through Medicine, a gallery about the history of the medicine; and three years working on Medicine and Communities, one of the new permanent Medicine Galleries at the Science Museum.

I am currently a PhD student in the department of modern Irish history at Trinity College Dublin. I'm interested in 19th century social and cultural Irish history; in particular, the experiences of women, motherhood and infancy. My current PhD. research seeks to investigate the experiences of mothers within Irish workhouses and mothers' engagements with poor relief, more broadly, during the latter half of the nineteenth century; this project has been awarded the TCD 1252 Research Studentship Award. My 2017 Mphil. research completed at Trinity College, investigated 19th century Irish breastfeeding through a social and medical framework and it received a first-class distinction. In 2015, my BA dissertation was awarded a first-class honours from Carlow College and this research was centred upon the female admissions into the Carlow District Lunatic Asylum (1850-70). Two of my recent publications include: ‘A Hopeless Case’: the representation of mothers and the workhouse in Irish newspapers, 1870-1910’ (2019), and "The Deasy Business': an assessment of the IRA during the last phrase of the Irish Civil War' (2017), both published in Historical Studies.

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Contact me: Bolgerju@tcd.ie

I am working on a PhD part time in the School of Education at University College Dublin examining Graphic Medicine and its role in Curriculum Development.

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@JMBurns99 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janeaburns/

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Contact me: janeaburns@gmail.com

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Dr. Kathryn Cassidy is a member of the technical team at the Digital Repository of Ireland, a Trusted Digital Repository for Ireland's Social and Cultural data. She is based in Trinity College Dublin.

Dr. Cassidy is principal Investigator on the Wellcome Trust Research Resources Awards in Humanities and Social Science funded project "Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th". This three-year project aims to archive born-digital material created by grass-roots activists during the 2018 referendum campaign.

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Contact: kcassidy@tchpc.tcd.ie

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http://www.dri.ie/

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@angrybunnie

Anne Coffey, Msc, BA (Hons), PG.Cert in Arts in Healthcare Settings, is a Child Art Psychotherapist working in private practice, receiving referrals from CAMHS, GPs and TUSLA, the Child and Family agency. She is also an established and practicing visual communications designer. Visual Literacy in healthcare is at the core of her research interests which include; the design of image-based outcome measures for very young children; drawing and cognition across the lifespan; Art Psychotherapy with children in care; exploring drawing and visual tools to enhance clinical observation skills and user-centred approaches to healthcare design.

University of Limerick

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Dementia/Alzheimer supports for Irish language speakers in Gaeltacht and English speaking areas

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@DeSorcha

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Contact me: sorcha.debrun@ul.ie

Emmanuel Delille is a French historian of science. He is currently an Associate Researcher at the Centre d’Archives en Philosophie, Histoire et Édition des Sciences (CAPHÉS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris) and at Centre Marc Bloch (CMB, Humboldt University, Berlin). He earned a doctorate in History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) in 2008 with a dissertation on the history of the French medical encyclopaedia, the “Encyclopédie Médico-Chirurgicale” (EMC), between 1947 and 1977. One of his major interests is the history of psychiatry: the intellectual networks and comparative history between France, Germany, and North America—particularly Canada. Other research projects after his PhD include the history of the French psychiatric hospital Bonneval (Eure-et-Loir), the history of Canadian and Japanese transcultural psychiatry, and the history of the French scholarly society “L’Évolution Psychiatrique” (created in 1924). A large number of his publications include reflections on the critical use of archival material, especially medical records of hospitals, and journals of patient associations in a psychiatric context. Emmanuel’s interest in intellectual history deals with epistolary material: above all, letters between scientists involved in scholarly networks. Since 2009, he has conducted postdoctoral research in Germany on the history of psychiatry during the Wirtschaftswunder years, using the tools of the French-German "histoire croisée" to evaluate the reading patterns of how and when German physicians read French publications, and vice versa. Within the field of the history of mental health, Emmanuel is also currently researching the history of cultural psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology in Canada, Ireland, UK, France, and Germany. In these different comparative perspectives, his main inquiry remains the shaping of the dynamic of the circulation of knowledge.

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Contact me: edelille@hotmail.com

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Midwifery in Trinity College Dublin with links to practice. My role involves teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and master students, module leader, course coordinator, and supervision duties. My research and practice interests include the history of maternity care, ways of advancing meaningful change in the Irish maternity services with particular interest in advancing community continuity midwife-led services, rethinking the notion of spirituality, normality and risk in maternity care, exploring curriculum development that will support autonomous midwifery practice. I completed a BSc Honours Degree in Anthropology in University College London in 1997 and an M.Sc. in Midwifery Education in University College Dublin in 2001. I am in my final year of my PhD which is an institutional ethnography of antenatal care.

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Contact me: dunleama@tcd.ie

https://people.ucd.ie/kelly.fitzgerald

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Contact me: kelly.fitzgerald@ucd.ie

Katie Fitzpatrick is a first year PhD student at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Her research is exploring the use of music therapy for adults with chronic pain. She works as a music therapist, community musician and music educator in Limerick and Clare. She holds two master’s degrees in Music Therapy and Community Music from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, and completed her Bachelor of Arts in Music and English at University College Cork.

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Contact me: katie.fitzpatrick@ul.ie

I am currently a Sligo-based independent researcher. My main area of interest is in urban morphology, the study of topography as a shaper of form, continuity and change in urban areas and the creation of spatial form through social and economic process. I was awarded my PhD in Maynooth in 2016, with a thesis which examined the origins of poor and insanitary housing in Sligo and other 19th century provincial Irish towns, the social and political efforts made to improve this situation. I am currently editing a collection of papers chronicling the impact of the 1832 Cholera epidemic in Sligo.

http://iaph.ie/members/fiona-gallagher/

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Contact me: fionagallaghersligo@gmail.com

Interested in institutionalisation particularly Mother and Baby Homes and the treatment of unmarried mothers.

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https://nuigalway.academia.edu/lorrainegrimes

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Contact me: l.grimes2@nuigalway.ie

Conor is Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Sport Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2019 Conor finished his Ph.D. entitled 'Physical Culture in Ireland, 1893-1939' at University College Dublin. In the past Conor has published work in Women's History Review, Irish Studies Review, Loisir, Irish Economic and Social History and Sport in History among other journals. He also operates physicalculturestudy.com, a history of fitness website.

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Contact me: conor.heffernan@austin.utexas.edu

Brendan Kelly is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, Consultant Psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, and UCD Visiting Full Clinical Professor at University College Dublin School of Medicine and Medical Sciences. In addition to his medical degree (MB BCh BAO), he holds masters degrees in epidemiology (MSc), healthcare management (MA) and Buddhist studies (MA); and doctorates in medicine (MD), history (PhD), governance (DGov) and law (PhD). He has authored and co-authored over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals, over 500 non-peer-reviewed publications, 13 book chapters and contributions, and 11 books (eight as sole author). His recent books include ‘Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland’ (2016), ‘Mental Illness, Human Rights and the Law’ (2016) and ‘The Doctor Who Sat For A Year’ (2019). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and Trinity College Dublin. In 2017, he became Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry.
 

https://www.tcd.ie/medicine/staff/kellyb19/

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Contact me: brendankelly35@gmail.com

I am a Wellcome Trust sponsored PhD Candidate, based in the History Department in the National University of Ireland (Galway). My research examines changing responses to those with an intellectual disability in Ireland in the period 1947-84 and explores the way in which the state assumed an increasing responsibility for the care of those with an intellectual disability.

I completed an MA in the Social & Cultural History of Medicine in University College Dublin with a Wellcome Trust Master's Studentship, writing a dissertation on the role played by activist organisations during the Irish 'AIDS Crisis' of 1983-1989, based in the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Cox.

https://insight-centre.academia.edu/DavidKilgannon

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Contact me: dmkilgannon@gmail.com

Narrative medicine, Aesthetics and Medicine, Agency and Representation in Illness and Mothering Narratives

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Contact me: Yianna.Liatsos@ul.ie

Dr Ciarán McCabe is a social historian of poverty and welfare in Ireland and Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research interests also include women’s history, the social history of religious practice, and legal history. He was awarded an MA in the Social and Cultural History of Medicine at UCD (with a thesis on the Cork Street Fever Hospital in Dublin (est 1804)), and completed an Irish Research Council-funded PhD at Maynooth University in 2014. His monograph Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland (based on his doctoral research) was published by Liverpool University Press in 2018 and was awarded a Special Commendation Prize in the NUI Publication Prize in Irish History 2019. Ciarán has published articles in Irish Economic and Social History, The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Analecta Hibernica, Archivium Hibernicum, and (forthcoming in May 2020) Social History.

Ciarán has held IRC-funded postdoctoral fellowships at NUI Galway and UCD, and is currently a Research Associate of the Humanities Institute, UCD. He has served as a committee member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians, Irish History Online and the Oral History Network of Ireland, and is also the copy-editor of Irish Historical Studies.

A former journalist and court reporter, Ciarán is based in the Irish Midlands and currently serves as the Fixtures Secretary of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society.

Contact me:

http://iaph.ie/members/ciaran_mccabe/

ciaranbp.mccabe@gmail.com

@ciaran_dr

Carmel McKenna (MA MBS TCRG) has been involved in Irish step dancing for over 50 years. During that time, she has acted in multiple, often overlapping, roles including that of dance student, competitor, performer, choreographer, educator, teacher, researcher and research supervisor.

Carmel is an active member in, and historian and archivist for, An Chomhdháil na Múinteoirí le Rincí Gaelacha (Congress of Irish Dance Teachers).

Carmel’s research interests range from the analysis of gender in Irish dance to examination of issues such as power, politics and influence in Irish dance organizations. More recently, she has acted as research co-supervisor for interdisciplinary research at LIT which stands at the intersection of dance/movement and its application in social care and wider health humanities settings.

Research Co-Supervision (MA by Research):
2018 (ongoing): Exploring the psycho-social effects of the introduction of an adaptive Ceili dance activity for people living with dementia and their carers.
2016 to 2018: Analysis of the Loss & Grief experienced by competitive Irish dancers transitioning to Irish dance teaching careers

Other Professional Memberships:
International Council of Dance (CID) at UNESCO
International Association of Dance Medicine & Science
Dance Research Forum Ireland
Oral History Network Ireland

https://lit.academia.edu/CarmelMcKenna

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Contact me: carmel.mckenna@lit.ie

https://jonathanpaulmitchell.com/

I work within critical disability studies, and also draw upon feminist philosophy, philosophy of technology, and actor-network theory. I'm interested in the role played by disability in what is taken as properly human, and potential implications for the development and application of present and future medical technologies. I'm particularly focused on understanding disability through the lens of biopolitics.

I have two publications forthcoming: a chapter in an edited collection for Routledge called 'The Inhuman Gaze'; and an article in a special issue called 'Disability and Prostheses' in Women, Gender and Research.

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Contact me: jonathan.mitchell@ucdconnect.ie

Professor Rock-Moore is a medical anthropologist. He holds a BSc (Joint Honours), Social Anthropology and Sociology, a DPhil and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). His interests include the sociology of science, sociology/anthropology of health, illness and society, social theory, conflict theory, health inequality and identity. He has conducted large-scale international field research, gained a number of prestigious research grants and has led on various innovative national and international research projects. He is currently Co PI (on Research FP7 Structural and Behavoural / Cultural Barriers to the Rapid Implementation of Large Multi-Site Clinical Studies in Europe in response to severe Infectious Disease (Pandemic) outbreaks and is responsible for a team of researchers based at UCD, Oxford University and Cardiff University. He is currently embarking on research into male suicide in Kazakhstan.

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Contact me: Ronald.moore@nu.edu.kz or Ronnie.g.moore@ucd.ie

My name is Meadhbh Murphy and I am Archivist in University College Dublin (UCD) Archives. As a member of the UCD Archives team I am involved in the cataloguing of historically important Irish collections, helping researchers with their enquiries and am a member of the Library Outreach Coordination Group. I am undertaking a PhD part-time in UCD Centre of the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) looking at the relationship between surgeon-anatomists and animals in the 18th and early 19th century. I previously worked as Archivist in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Vancouver Film School (VFS), Manuscripts and Archives Research Library (M&ARL) in Trinity College Dublin and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. I am UCD Cultural Heritage Collections Blog Manager liaising with the various cultural heritage units to post an interesting blog highlighting our wonderful and in some cases unknown material every two weeks. The blog won Best Arts & Culture Blog 2018 at the Ireland Blog Awards in October. I am also joint lead project manager for an intervarsity collaborative project (RCSI, RCPI, TCD, UCD) to digitise Irish medical illustration collections from the early 1800s and create a dedicated website to these collections.

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Contact me: meadhbh.murphy@ucd.ie

A foundational scholar of HIV/AIDS in Irish cultural representation and the first Irish academic to publish on HIV/AIDS in Irish theatre, Cormac O'Brien is actively involved in advocacy and empowerment for communities affected by HIV/AIDS. As part of his larger research project, “Ireland in the Age of AIDS’, in spring 2019 Cormac was awarded and undertook a Fulbright Scholarship to investigate HIV/AIDS among Irish diasporas in the USA at the “AIDS and its Impact” collection at the University of South Carolina. Cormac has published several landmark essays on HIV/AIDS in Irish culture and politics and is invited frequently to present his research at universities and public fora both in Ireland and overseas.

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Conact me: cormac.obrien@ucd.ie

Cork Folklore Project/Folklore and Ethnology, University College, Cork

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I am a folklorist/ethnologist interested in vaccination discourse. I am currently working with my colleague Beth Brint (pathology, UCC) on an IRC New Foundations-funded project entitled ‘Oral Testimony, Infectious Disease and Vaccination’. The STEAM award, which supports innovations in the communication of science and knowledge, is supporting the Cork Folklore Project’s investigation into the value of oral history in health research and public health initiatives, in this case in the area of experiences of infectious diseases and vaccination.

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This project will use the cultural heritage online archival database and exhibition platform Omeka to create a pilot dissemination website where narratives of infectious diseases such as measles and polio can be shared in compelling oral or textual testimony. This testimony will be accompanied by text transcriptions, images, links to the interview metadata in the Cork Folklore Project’s collection catalogue, and text/audio narratives by immunologist Dr. Elizabeth Brint (Pathology, UCC), contextualizing the diseases in question in terms of their short and long-term effects on health, and the history and implications of vaccine implementation. The database will be designed for use by the public, by the Cork Folklore Project, and by public health educators.

Changes brought about by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic foreground the relevance and the potential applications of this project, and it dovetails significantly with the Cork Folklore Project’s ongoing ‘Chronicles of COVID-19’ collection project, where accounts of everyday experience of the current pandemic include recall of testimony regarding past epidemics and experience of infectious diseases.

@OCarroll     corkfolklore.org

Contact me: c.ocarroll@ucc.ie

Senior Reg in Child Psychiatry with interest in the use of visual art

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Contact me: antonia.okeeffe@hse.ie

My research interests revolve around the First World War, disability, trauma and mental healthcare. I completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool with a thesis dedicated to the post-war treatment of mentally-ill Irish Great War veterans who returned to Ireland. This research is due for publication in Manchester University Press in December 2019 as part of their Disability History series. In addition to this research, I have published an article in Irish Studies Review on the post-war treatment of disabled Great War veterans who lived in the Irish Free State and have an upcoming article due for publication in War in History on the post-war experiences of shell-shocked veterans in Irish and British society.

Twitter: @robinsonmj07

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Contact me: mjrobinson88@hotmail.co.uk

I completed my undergraduate in English and history in Maynooth university, then studied history of medicine for my masters in Oxford Brookes university. There, I completed my thesis on the topic of eugenics and biopolitics in the Irish Free State. I am currently a PhD researcher at the University of Strasbourg, researching the treatment of paediatric patients during Nazi occupation. I have spoken at conferences on the topics of eugenics, medical research ethics, intelligence testing, paediatrics, pathology records, medical theses, abortion and contraception, and the importance of the patient voice in studying medical history.

Research interests include medicine and the end of life, experiences of death and dying, experiences of health and chronic illness, stigma and dementia, stigma, social exclusion and perceptions of health and disease, health and social care professionals' perspectives of end-of-life care, care professionals and grieving, arts-based interventions, socially-engaged research and inteventions connected to death education and mortality awareness, assisted death and medical humanities, palliative care, hospice and the arts and humanities.

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Contact me: jennifer.stritch@lit.ie

RCSI Heritage Collections Library Assistant

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Contact me: sarahtimmins@rcsi.com

Triona Waters is a PhD researcher and Departmental Assistant at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Her doctoral research, funded by MIC, investigates the archives of St. Joseph’s Psychiatric Hospital, formerly known as the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, under the supervision of Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUIG), Dr Úna Ní Broiméil (MIC) and Dr Maura Cronin (MIC). Her PhD research primarily focuses on nineteenth century Irish asylumdom. She was recently awarded the Royal College of Physician’s ‘Kirkpatrick History of Medicine’ research award, 2018 for her work on the history of mental health services in Limerick that considered not only the records of the Limerick asylum, but also the Mental Health Commissioner Reports of 2017. Her MA, awarded by the University of Limerick, examined the social history of St. Brigid’s Psychiatric Hospital, formerly known as the Connaught District Lunatic Asylum with a focus on its twentieth century history by using oral history methodology. With a year of study based in Syracuse, New York, she was also awarded ‘Student of the Year’. As post-graduate representative of the Irish History Students’ Association (IHSA), she is a member of the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS), Irish Modern Urban History (IMUH) and History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HSTM). She is currently guest editor of the University of Limerick Journal, History Studies, 2019.

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Contact me: triona.waters@mic.ul.ie

Harriet Wheelock is the Keeper of Collections in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She is responsible for promoting access to RCPI's historical library, archive and object collections and the development of the collections to provide research access to previously inaccessible material.

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Harriet is currently undertaking a PhD in the Dublin School of Creative Arts, TU Dublin looking at the history and development of RCPI’s collections and museum.

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Contact me: harrietwheelock@rcpi.ie