Winners of Master’s Awards in Medical History and Humanities announced
15 August 2011
The awards are designed to support exceptional students to undertake basic training in research and methods through a one-year Master's course in the History of Medicine or Medical Humanities. The awards include all compulsory university and college fees, as well as the student's stipend.
The competition aims to identify the research leaders of tomorrow, with strong preference given to applicants intending to make a long-term academic career in the subject.
Universities were invited to nominate one candidate accepted onto a History of Medicine or Medical Humanities Master's programme and the applications were assessed by committee.
Eleven awards have been made for the coming academic year. The award winners are:
- Alastair Cliff, University of Cambridge
- Russell Moul, Imperial College London
- Katherine Forrest, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
- Natalie Paris, Queen Mary, University of London
- Louise Laxton, University of Warwick
- Joanna Lunt, University of York
- Kayleigh Nias, University of Exeter
- Thora Hands, Glasgow Caledonian University
- Charlotte Kuhlbrandt, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Julia Dahlkamp, Centre for the Humanities and Health, King's College London
- Anneka Hickey, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin.
Image: An image showing the valves in the human forearm, from ‘Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus’, 1628. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
