The Award letter has been received, and we have it black on white that Dr Clark is now officially Dr Clark. Btw, you can read some of her work here:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Postdoctoral experience in the history of public health, addiction or sport? Our LSHTM postdoctoral position with Alex Mold is live! Come and work with our fantastic Wellcome Trust funded Kicking the Habit Team Heather Wardle, Alex and me. 6 years! Toot! 🙌

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP022/res…

I’m super honored by this award and grateful to the mentors, classmates, community organizers and researchers, and archivists whose generosity and brilliance enriched this work!

Really good list of resources and approaches here. Like all the best guides, it's written for a specific audience (here, independent researchers), but will be useful more generally.

The section on shadow libraries at the bottom is well-judged and particularly worth noting.

Wonderful #histmed talk today by Michaela Clark about photographic space and the clinical gaze in Cape Town CHSTM

I'm a bit delayed in posting this, but

Enthused to say that I successfully defended my dissertation last week at HistMedJHU and am now a PhD in the history of medicine, science, and technology! It's been a hella long 7 years, and I'm both glad and sad it's done 🥹

Hey y'all. Do you know anyone working on/with pastoralist and indigenous people in Africa, specifically Kenya and Tanzania? It's for a (paid) research project. Please rt and share 🫶 thank you!
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Only a few more days left to apply for the role of part-time Reviews Editor! Applications close this Friday 10 Nov 2023.

thepolyphony.org/2023/10/19/wer…

Another new publication by another CHSTM CHSTM PhDs student: Jane Whittaker on 'Narrative Matters: Wasting away and fed up – dietary battles in history' - on medical understandings of eating disorders
…ary-wiley-com.manchester.idm.oclc.org/share/NZZVRQAH…
#histmed #histpsych

Proud of you, Michaela Clark 💪

Hot off the press, by CHSTM CHSTM PhDs Michaela Clark: Clark, M. (2023). Visualising Medical Knowledge: Photographing Patients in Twentieth-Century Cape Town
link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
#histstm #histmed

wishing this pleasant man all the best

Which house? This is a tough one…

🎉We're happy to announce we've opened the #CfP for our Lunchtime Seminar series 2023/2024! Any #HSTM topic you as a postgrad researcher are currently working on goes.
Info and application form: chstmphdblog.wordpress.com/lunchtime-semi…
Deadline: September 1st, 2023.

My article 'Collaborations in Art & Medicine: Institutional Critique, Patient Participation, and Emerging Entanglements' is out in LEONARDO today!

direct.mit.edu/leon/article-a…

(DM me if you'd like to read but don't have institutional access)

An amazing last day of the STAND Commission conference, such a wonderful experience meeting all these lovely people! #STAND23

TWO Amazing open-rank, tenure-track African History Faculty Positions at SUNY-Buffalo!🔥 Let’s Go!!!

African History:
lnkd.in/eHHaqPAw

History of Science, Health, Disability in Africa: lnkd.in/e94R5dBM

Woop it's one week to go until we kick off British Society for the History of Science #DigiFest2023 - like 2020 - but this time we're online by choice as part of the BSHS commitment to reduce expensive and carbon intensive conferences (we're still in-person biennially) digicon.bshs.org.uk/events/

Surely every academic gets to have one footnote that says “dude, I swear I read it somewhere”. Tearing my hair out trying to find something…