Research Awards and Grants

The Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease has been awarded the following grants:

2013 - 2014

2013-14: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship: "Medical Confidentiality and Patient Privacy in Historical Perspective" (Maehle): £22,461
2013: Durham University, Seedcorn Funding, ‘History of Puberty’ (Sauerteig), £5,000

2011 - 2012

2011-12: Wellcome Research Expenses Grant: "Reproductive Knowledge and the Popular Medical Enlightenment in Germany, c1750-1850 (Pranghofer): £2,613
2011-12: Wolfson Small Grant, Wolfson Research Institute (Kennaway): £1,445
2011: Wolfson Small Grant to support "The Foetus Goes Public Exhibition and Lecture Series", Wolfson Research Institute (Sauerteig, Pranghofer): £1,500
2011: "The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics" Conference Grant, Wellcome Trust (Kennaway): £3,875

2010

2010: Christopherson/Knott Fellowship for "Historicizing Stem Cell Research", (Maehle): £7,500
2010: SSHM Conference Grant, Wellcome Trust (Maehle & Sauerteig): £14,150

2008 - 2009

2009: Conference Grant, Wolfson Research Institute (Maehle, Sauerteig, Pranghofer): £3,826
2009-12: Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship: 'Pathological Sounds: The History of Music as a Threat to the Nerves' (Kennaway, sponsored by Maehle and Sauerteig): £148,880
2008-09: Wellcome Trust Masters Studenthsip (Maehle, Baker): £21,438

2007

2007-12: Wellcome Trust Strategic Award: 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representation of Medicine and Health - Historical Perspectives' (Atkins, Maehle, Sauerteig): £376,340
2007-08: Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (Maehle): £37,403

2006

2004 - 2005

2005-08: Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship (McCleery, Maehle) "Physicians of the Body and Physicians of the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Medieval Portugal": £143,760
2005-07: Wellcome Trust PhD Research Expenses Grant (Pranghofer): "Visualisations of the Human Body in Anatomical Discourses in Early Modern Europe": £1,500
2005-06: Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (Atkins) "Milk, pure or poisonous? The history of a key food and its health consequences, 1850-1860": £51,425
2005: Conference Grant, Wolfson Research Institute (Sauerteig): £2,500
2004/05: Wellcome Trust Masters Studentship (Maehle, Pagett): £13,510
2004 and 2005: Society for Social History of Medicine Conference Grants (Sauerteig): £500, £750

2000 - 2003

2003-08: Wellcome Trust University Award (Sauerteig) "A Comparative History of Sex Education of Children and Adolescents in England and (West) Germany, 1880s-1970s": £206,753
2003-08: Wellcome Trust Enhancement Award (Maehle) "Justifying Medicine: Historical Perspectives": £192,906
2003: British Academy and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) small Research Grant (Peña): £5,000
2000-03: Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Project Grant (Maehle, Halliwell) "The Impact of the Receptor Concept on 20th Century Pharmacology": £111,342
2002: Wellcome Trust Conference Grant (Maehle, Roberts): £1,246

Other grants