Jessica Campbell

Thesis title: The Healing Arts? An Examination of Madness, Creativity and Experience in British Asylum Culture c.1840-1914

Background

Jessica Campbell is an ESRC funded Economic and Social History student with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Her current research focuses on the relationship between 'madness', creativity and patient experience through a historical enquiry into the nature of arts-based psychiatric therapies in Britain since 1840.

Qualifications

MA (Hons) History 

MSc by Research, History 

MSc by Research, Economic and Social History

Responsibilities & affiliations

Society for the Social History of Medicine Member 

Edinburgh History of Medicine Group 

Economic and Social History Seminar Group 

Menstruation Research Network 

Undergraduate teaching

Introduction to Historiography 

Social History 2.2: The Making of the Modern Body 

 

Research summary

History of Medicine

History of Psychiatry 

Social History

Cultural History 

Gender Studies

Affiliated research centres

  • Menstruation Research Network

Conference details

Royal College of Psychiatrists Autumn Conference 2018 

McCarthy Award for History of Medicine Research 2018 

Social History of Medicine Postgraduate Conference 2019

Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research  4th Congress 2021

Invited speaker

'Out of Sight, Out of Mind': Tour of RCPE Moonstruck Exhibition 2019 

Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen seminar series 2021

Papers delivered

'Our Home from Home': Dingleton Hospital's Outlook 

'Oh What a First Rate Doctor is Doctor Drama': Theatre, Performance and the 19th Century Asylum Stage

Campbell, J. & Davis, G., (2022) “‘A Crisis of Transition’: Menstruation and the Psychiatrisation of the Female Lifecycle in 19th-Century Edinburgh”, Open Library of Humanities 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.6350