Strategic enhancements
30 July 2003
Groups at Exeter and Warwick have been awarded the Wellcome Trust's first Strategic Awards in the History of Medicine. Strategic Awards provide large-scale, long-term (five-year) support for clusters of medical historians working on a common theme, and have been established to replace the Trust's History of Medicine Unit funding.
The £700 000 award to Mark Jackson and colleagues at the University of Exeter will build on research at its Centre for Medical History. The key research theme is the interplay between nature and nurture in health and disease from 1850 to the present day, including the history of environmental and occupational respiratory diseases, the history of mental health, and the history of gender, sexuality and the family. The Centre also aims to strengthen links with the local ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society and the new Peninsula Medical School.
The £600 000 grant to Hilary Marland and colleagues at the University of Warwick, plus David Gentilcore at the University of Leicester, will support research on the social history of medicine and medical practice in early modern Europe and in the UK over the past two centuries.
The awards provide support for research, core administrative support, postgraduate teaching and outreach work, to bring the fruits of historical medical research to wider audiences.
The Wellcome Trust has also awarded two Enhancement Awards to groups at Oxford Brookes University and the Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne. The Oxford bid, led by Professor John Stewart, worth £260 000, covers a wide range of topics in the renowned Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and present at Oxford Brookes. The £280 000 joint bid from Durham and Newcastle, led by Professor Andreas-Holger Maehle and Professor Philip van der Eijk, focuses on the place of medicine as a science, medical ethics and dissemination of medical knowledge. Enhancement Awards provide similar support to Strategic Awards, but at a lower level and without the need for a single research theme.
External links
- Dr Mark Jackson at the University of Exeter: Research interests
- Dr Hilary Marland at the University of Warwick: Research interests
- Professor John Stewart at Oxford Brookes University: Research interests