Fellows in the News

Amy's paper "Narrating the self-injured body" which she was working on at IASH has just been published in BMJ: Medical Humanities - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2014/05/08/medhum-2013-010488.short?g=w_mh_ahead_tab   She is currently at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh and is working on a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan - due for completion Autumn 2015 -  provisionally titled "Self-injury, medicine, & society: Authentic bodies

Linda McLean's play Every Five Minutes will receive its World Premiere at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco on 26 March.  The play began its life at the Institute during Linda's IASH-Traverse Creative Fellowship in 2010-11.

We are delighted to learn that Dr Katie Stevenson - who is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH - has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Thomas Reid Medal.  The medal is an Early Career Prize and is awarded to Katie "for her outstanding scholarly work on the cultural and political history of late medieval Scotland which has established her as a leading international expert in the field and for her commitment to knowledge exchange".  She is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the Univer

Dr Endre Szécsényi (IASH Fellow in 2001 and 2008) has been awarded a two-year Marie Curie Fellowship in Aberdeen.  He and his family will be moving to Scotland in August and Endre will be pursuing his research at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Historian Dr Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) is the presenter of a three-part series on "The Stuarts" which is being shown on BBC2 Scotland  on 30 January, 6 February and 13 February, and shortly afterwards on BBC2 elsewhere in the UK.   In it Clare argues that the Stuarts, more than any other, were Britain’s defining royal family. In the century to come, not only the political shape of modern Britain would emerge, but the embryonic ideas of a new British identity.

Professor Louise Chappell Reflects on her SPS-IASH Fellowship.
(Reproduced with kind permission from Bricolage December 2013 Issue 3)

Belated congratulations to Marianne Boruch on winning the Claremont Graduate University 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.   She was awarded the prize of $100,000 for her collection The Book of Hours, published by Copper Canyon Press.

Congratulations to Dr Arima Mishra (CWIT Fellow at IASH, 2009)  on the publication of a book she has co-edited with Suhita Chopra Chatterjee on 'Multiple Voices and Stories: Narratives of Health and Illness'.  The book is published by Orient BlackSwan and you can read more about it at http://orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=9&isbn=978-81-250-5379-8#

Dr. Abbie Garrington (Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-8) is a lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University. She has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a book: High Modernism: A Literary History of Mountaineering, 1890-1945. Her book Haptic Modernism was published earlier this year by Edinburgh University Press (see http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748641741).

Dr Martyn Pickersgill, former IASH Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, has been awarded funds from the Leverhulme Trust for a new 2-year project on ‘Neuroscience and Family Life: The Brain in Policy and Practice’. Martyn is currently Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics in the Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh.