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Louise Bourdua holds a PhD from Warwick University and lectures widely on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the department of History of Art. Her ongoing research focuses on the patronage and iconography of religious Orders, in particular the Mendicants. She also teaches a course entitled the Material Culture of Disease and Death in the Middle Ages for the Cultural History Group. Email: hoa010@abdn.ac.uk
John Clegg is Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology in the University. He was previously Regius Professor of Anatomy. He has conducted fieldwork in Kashmir, Ethiopia and Fiji, and for the last 25 years has been interested in the historical demography of the Outer Hebrides, more particularly in respect of patterns of marriage and fertility, but also in mortality change over the last 150 years, especially in Tuberculosis and measles. Most of his work has been published in Annals of Human Biology, The Journal of Biosocial Science or in Collegium Antropologicum. E-mail: e.clegg@abdn.ac.uk
Iain Davidson is a member of the Department of Educational Studies with degrees in history, education and psychology and an inability to confine himself to any one of these disciplines. His primary interests are in special education and in disability, especially the conceptual assumptions dictating practice and how people experience either (or both), all within a cultural historical context. Email: i.davidson@abdn.ac.uk
Lesley Diack is a Research Fellow in the Department of History. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1977 with an MA in Scottish Historical Studies and from the University of Aberdeen in 1999 with a PhD entitled 'Women's Health and Charity in eighteenth century Scotland and France'. She has worked as a part-time lecturer in the department and from 1999 until early 2002 worked on the Wellcome Trust funded History of the Aberdeen Typhoid Outbreak, 1964. Since then she has been involved in a collaborative project with the University of Glasgow, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Dugald Baird Centre for Women's health at Aberdeen University. This project is investigating the health of children born 1950-1955 in Aberdeen. She is also involved in a short term project analysing media aspects before, during and after the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak. She is hoping in the future to develop these interests and progress to a project on Scottish public health in the twentieth century. She has published a number of articles on women's health, the health of Aberdeen, general Scottish history and the typhoid outbreak. She is the author of a forthcoming book on Women's Health in Eighteenth Century Europe and is co-author of a forthcoming book on the typhoid outbreak. She is Secretary of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and on the executive committee of the Oral History Society. Email: his043@abdn.ac.uk
Elizabeth Hallam Elizabeth Hallam holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent. Her research interests include focus on the historical anthropology of gender, ritual, popular culture and belief; cultural representation; anthropology of the body and material culture. She has published on gender relations, death and ritual in early modern England and is co-author of Beyond the Body. Death and Social Identity (Routledge). She is currently completing Death Memory and Mementos, a co-authored volume for Berg. Further work in progress includes studies focusing on gender, ritual and the body in England. She convenes courses in anthropology and cultural history in the Cultural History Group and is willing to supervise postgraduate research. Email: e.hallam@abdn.ac.uk
Howard Hotson holds a DPhil in history from Oxford University. His dissertation, supervised by Charles Webster, on the German encyclopaedist and millenarian, Johann Heinrich Alsted, has been published as Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588-1638: Between Renaissance, Reformation and Universal Reform (Oxford, 2000). He is also preparing a survey of the Central European Reformed academic tradition c. 1570-1630 for the Oxford-Warburg Studies. He currently coordinates courses for the department on 'Europe and Scotland, 1500-1700', 'Renaissance, Reformation and Universal Reform' and the 'Introduction to Historical Research' in the department's post-graduate training programme. His interests range widely in the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe, including topics such as Paracelsianism, alchemy, education, and universal reform relevant to the interest of the group, and he would be interested in supervising post-graduate study in these and related areas. Email: h.hotson@abdn.ac.uk
Karen Jillings graduated MA in History (Hons.) from the University
of Aberdeen in 1996. She is currently researching for a PhD on epidemic disease
in late medieval and early modern Scotland, especially the development and
spread of plague regulations and popular reactions to them. Her work is intended
to include comparative elements looking at other areas around the Irish and
North Seas (e.g., Hansa, Holland). She is especially interested in discovering
the extent of indigenous response versus indebtedness to continental models
for plague prevention and containment. Email: his088@abdn.ac.uk
Ben Marsden has a BA from Cambridge and a PhD in the History, Philosophy and Social Relations of Science from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is interested in the cultural history of science, technology and engineering in nineteenth century Britain, especially in academic context. Amongst his current research projects are: James Watt and his 'perfect engine'; an investigation of the early history of the humanitarian movement and its relations with the history of technology; and a study of the Cambridge professor, philosopher of mechanism and comparative anatomist, Robert Willis. He has published in History of Science, the British Journal for the History of Science and elsewhere on the history of energy physics, the historical relations of music and science, technological failure, and the academic teaching of science and engineering. He currently teaches and researches in the History Department of Aberdeen Email: b.marsden@abdn.ac.uk
William Naphy has a PhD in the history of the Reformation. He is currently working on a monograph study on intentional plague-spreading in the Western Alps in the 16th and 17th centuries. He teaches on Official and Popular Reactions to Plague (1348-1721); Europe and the Other: contacts, colonies and conquests (Islam, India, the Far East, Africa and the New World); Early Modern Republicanism: Society and Culture in City-States. He is also co-editor of a forthcoming volume entitled Fear in Early Modern Society and general editor of the new Manchester Press series, Studies in Early Modern European History. In addition to the interests apparent above, he also works on early modern societal attitudes to various minority groups (e.g., Jews, prostitutes, witches, gypsies and homosexuals). He is keen to supervise topics on any of the above or on other related topics in the 15th-17th centuries. Email: w.g.naphy@abdn.ac.uk
Catherine Paterson is working part-time on a PhD on the history of occupational therapy in Scotland. She is Director of Occupational Therapy at The Robert Gordon University. She trained as an occupational therapist at the Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh She worked as a clinician, teacher and researcher, before setting up the Grampian School of Occupational Therapy in 1976, now part of The Robert Gordon University.
Hugh Pennington, MB BS, PhD, FRCPath, FRCP (Edin), FMed Sci, FRSE is Professor of Bacteriology, Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology. He qualified in medicine from St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School where he held junior medical and academic posts. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) he worked for the Medical Research Council and the University of Glasgow at the Institute of Virology there. He took up his present post in 1979. In 1997 he chaired an inquiry into the Lanarkshire E.coli O157 food poisoning outbreak. He is a member of Food Standards Agency and BBC advisory committees, and is currently writing a book on the science and politics of E.coli O157 and BSE. Email: mmb036@abdn.ac.uk.
Richard Perren, is Reader in Economic History. Dr Perren is a specialist in British agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and he has written many articles on this topic. In 1995 he authored Agriculture in Depression 1870-1940 (C.U.P.). He has written chapters for the Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol VI, 1750-1850' (C.U.P., 1989) and The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol VII, 1850-1914' (C.U.P., 2000). His other interests include business and urban history, and he has also contributed two chapters to Aberdeen 1800-2000: A New History (Tuckwell Press, 2000). Email: r.perren@abdn.ac.uk
Eve Seguin A political scientist by training, Dr Eve Seguin is interested in the articulation of science and politics, particularly the impact of scientific discourse on political events. She has published several articles on the political function of science, the role of biological discourse in the legitimation of in vitro fertilisation, discourse analysis, and science studies, in peer-reviewed journals such as Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; Discourse & Society; Science and Public Policy; Theory, Culture & Society; Politix; Mots; Langage et société. She is currently studying the influence of prion discourse on the BSE crisis, and co-editing a volume on the knowledge, discourse and politics of prions. Email: his142@abdn.ac.uk
David Smith, who is lecturer in the history of medicine, has a PhD in the history and sociology of science from the Science Studies Unit of Edinburgh University. He is interested in the history of physiology and nutrition science, and in food policy making. He is editor of Nutrition in Britain: Science, Scientists and Politics in the Twentieth Century (1997) and co-editor of Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century (2000). He was principal applicant, with Hugh Pennington and Elizabeth Russell, for Wellcome Trust project grants supporting research on the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak of 1964, 19992002. He has also been sponsor of Wellcome Trust fellowship applications. He is currently working on books on the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak, and nutrition science and nutrition politics in the Twentieth Century. He teaches the history of medicine in both the Faculty of Arts and Divinity and the Faculty of Medicine. In the former faculty he offers an honours option or special subject in the history of medicine of the Twentieth Century. In the latter faculty he leads a theme group on 'Historical and literary explorations of medical ethics' in the medical ethics Special Study Module. He also co-ordinates the 'Paramedical' Special Study Module, in which he offers a project-based history of medicine option. He has supervised various Mlitt and PhD projects covering aspects of the history of medicine during the late nineteenth and twentieth century. He is former a chair of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Email: d.f.smith@abdn.ac.uk
Andrew Spicer is a teacher of history at Stonyhurst College (Lancashire) and an honorary research fellow of the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen. As such, he visits Aberdeen 4-5 times per year to give papers and to participate in the department's various seminar series. His PhD work (at Southampton University) studies the French and Walloon refugee community in Southampton during the French Wars of Religion and the Dutch Revolt. His thesis is to appear in the Autumn as a joint publication of the Southampton Historical Society and the Huguenot Society. His current work is proceeding along two parallel tracts. He is studying Reformed ideas about death and burial (this work has already produced two essays) and the relationship between theology, liturgy and church architecture (a monograph on this under contract with MUP). He is interesting in the interplay of religious belief and attitudes towards disease, dying and death in France and the Low Countries in the period, c. 1540-1648. E-mail: epiciere@aol.com
Edwin van Teijlingen is a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health and a researcher in the Dugald Baird Centre for Research on women's Health , and postgraduate coordinator in the Institute of Applied Health Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen. His Ph.D. thesis compared the organisation of maternity care between the Netherlands and Grampian (Scotland). He teaches research methods, behavioural sciences and health promotion to health science students and medical students. His main research interests are in midwifery and health promotion. Together with Rose Barbour (University of Glasgow) he wrote: 'The MRC Medical Sociology Unit in Aberdeen: its development and legacy', in Aberdeen History of Medicine Publication, To the Greit Support and Advancement of Health (1996). He is list owner of an Internet discussion group: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sociology-midwifery.html He has edited two books on midwifery and maternity care: Teijlingen van, E., Lowis, G., McCaffery, P., Porter, M. (eds.) (2000) Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth: Comparative Perspectives, New York: Nova Science. [ISBN: 1-56072-6806]. DeVries, R., Benoit, C., Teijlingen van, E., Wrede, S. (eds.) (2001) Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Midwifery Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe, New York: Routledge. [ISBN: 0-415-923387] . E-mail: sme195@abdn.ac.uk
Bob Tyson is a graduate of Manchester University and taught at Glasgow University before coming to Aberdeen. He is interested in the population history of Scotland between c. 1600 and 1850, particularly the relationship between mortality and economy. He is a member of the Scottish Population History Group which is preparing Scotland: a Population History 1600-1914 and has written on various aspects of Scottish population history, including household structure, famine in Aberdeenshire, and comparisons with Ireland. He is currently writing Population in Pre-Industrial Britain 1500-1750 (Macmillan), a chapter on 'Demography' in T. Devine, ed., New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and a study of the demography of Aberdeen before 1900 for the New History of Aberdeen. He teaches a course called 'Comparative Studies in British Population 1500-1750'. He is willing to supervise postgraduate projects on aspects of Scottish population history, including famine between 1600 and 1750.
Oonagh Walsh has a BA from Dublin and an MA from Nottingham. She is about to complete a PhD thesis in the social and political history of Irish Protestant women (early twentieth-century) at Trinity College, Dublin. Her main interests are in the field of gender and women's histories, and she offers courses in these areas within the department and the Women's Studies programme. Articles published and in press concern women's charitable work in Dublin, Irish female literary representations, and the Irish asylum service and the Great Famine. Her next research project concerns the development of the psychiatric service in Ireland from the early nineteenth century, and focuses in particular upon the west of the country. Email: o.walsh@abdn.ac.uk
Fiona Watson is archivist to Grampian and Highland Health Boards, having worked at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Scottish Records Office. She has published In Sickness and in Health: North-East health records as a source for family history (1988), Westburn Medical Group, 1896-1996: A Practice Centenary (1996), is co-author of The Hospitals of Peterhead, and contributed to and co-edited 'To the Greit Support and Advancement of Health'. She is currently researching the history of hospitals in Orkney.