Research is emotional. Five history researchers reflect on how new guidelines on wellbeing have shaped their practice in productive and radical ways
Tag: mental health
Researcher Wellbeing and What We Can Learn from Mental Health Professionals
The authors of new Researcher Wellbeing Guidelines examine barriers faced by history researchers, ways to mitigate risks, and the value of collaborating with mental health professionals
Radical Books: Closing the Asylum
Despite emancipationist rhetoric, asylum abolition was a cost-cutting exercise that has left us with a coercive and carceral system of care. Barbara Taylor on the new edition of Peter Barham’s ‘Closing the Asylum’.
A Haunted History: The Sad Story of a Victorian Ghost-Seer
Caroline Nielsen introduces you to one of the best-selling ghost story collections of all time and to the foremost writers on psychic phenomenon of the nineteenth century: Mrs Catherine Crowe.
‘A Descent into Hell’: Ireland, the Intellectually Disabled and the Psychiatric Hospital System
David Kilgannon brings a historical perspective to Ireland’s treatment of the intellectually disabled.
Barbara Taylor: “Mental health professionals need to stand up & be counted”
The historian Barbara Taylor talks about the opportunity the 2015 UK general election campaign offers for a more informed debate about mental health provision.