Men, Women and Care. Applications open for 2 ERC funded PhD studentships.
These studentships form part of the Men, Women and Care project Led by Dr Jessica Meyer, part of the Medicine and War strand of the Legacies of War research and engagement hub
The Men, Women and Care project explores the development of formal and informal structures providing medical and social care to the unprecedented number of war disabled in Britain and Europe after the First World War.
Utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, it examines how the care provided by the State, charitable institutions and the family both were shaped by gendered understandings of care-giving and used gender to mobilise public and private support for disabled ex-servicemen. By placing the gendering of medical and social care at the centre of its interrogation of social and cultural understandings of care-giving in the first half of the 20th century, the project seeks gain greater insight into the relationships between men, women and care in this period.
The successful applicants will contribute to the development of a database of the information held in the PIN 26 section of the National Archives (Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected First World War Pensions Award Files) and use material from this archive to develop their own research project. They will work with other members of the project team to maintain the project website and disseminate research findings appropriately. Applications from candidates with interests in the fields of First World War history, the histories of medicine, disability, gender, or transnational and comparative histories are particularly welcome.
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