A Strategic Award in the History of Medicine was made to the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. This five-year award will strengthen the group’s position as one of the UK’s leading centres for research into the history of 19th- and 20th-century medicine.
As well as analysing economic data on healthcare, the Manchester group will explore the many NHS changes of the last 30 years. Another strand of research will focus on the impact of the Cold War, as military-derived technologies were deployed in medical research and practice.
A key aim is to provide useful information for patients, medical professionals and policy makers to help inform future healthcare policy-making, as well as to preserve the record of the past.
A five-year Enhancement Award was jointly awarded to the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and University College Dublin in the Republic of Ireland to enable researchers to work together on common themes. Research will focus particularly on medical developments in Ireland, north and south.
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