‘Tell me why I am here’: Listening to women’s lost words
Tuesday 12th September 2019 7:00pm
Mayfield Sports Centre, Arbroath Road, Dundee
I was invited to give an adapted version of this talk at a meeting of Graduate Women Scotland East, the local branch of Graduate Women Scotland. Founded in 1919 to improve the status of women and girls and to promote life long learning for women, this organisation also works to influence policy at the United Nations.
Patients, Families and the Asylum
Thursday May 16 2019, 6:30 – 8pm
Arthurstone Community Library, 5 Arthurstone Terrace, Dundee
I was delighted to be asked back to give another talk as part of Stobfest Community Festival 2019
More info: Stobswell Forum on Facebook
Odd, eccentric and immoral: Conformity, deviance and unnatural motherhood
Wednesday May 8 2019
Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Edinburgh
I gave a presentation as part of the launch of a public exhibition, The Wandering Womb, at the RCN headquarters in Edinburgh (picture below). I participated along with two other speakers.I participated along with two other speakers.
More info: The Wandering Womb
The Royal Asylums at Dundee and Montrose
Thursday April 18 2019
Dundee City UNISON Retired Members Section, Dundee Voluntary Action, 10 Constitution Road, Dundee
I was invited to give an afternoon talk to a group of retired local authority and voluntary sector workers, many of whom have worked in the mental health sector.
‘Tell me why I am here’: Listening to women’s lost words
Thursday 7th March 2019 1:00pm
Glasite Hall, St. Andrew’s Church, King Street, Dundee
This was a Friends of Dundee City Archives lunchtime event, in conjunction with Dundee Women’s Festival and Dundee Local History Week. My talk explored the ways in which we can access the voices of women among the records of the asylums at Dundee and Montrose. Together with the team at University of Dundee Archive services, I created an online gallery to accompany the event.
‘Tell me why I am here’ Online Gallery at UoD Archives
Exploring the history of the asylum at Stobswell
Tuesday October 30 2018
Cairn Fowk, Dundee Voluntary Action, 10 Constitution Road, Dundee
I was invited to give a talk at an evening meeting of this local charity organisation which supports the relatives and friends of people with schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder and people with severe and enduring depressive illnesses.
More info: An evening with Cairn Fowk
‘Done is better than perfect’
Skills session delivered as part of an Open University A825 Day School,
Napier University, Edinburgh, Saturday May 19 2018
Role: Speaker
A Country Retreat? A History of Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1820 – 1882
Wednesday May 9 2018
Arthurstone Library, Arthurstone Terrace, Dundee
I was invited to give a public talk given as part of Stobsfest Community Festival
More info: A country retreat? Stobswell and the asylum
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