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Dr Graham Smith

Graham Smith

Dr Graham Smith

Senior Lecturer in Social Science

Phone: +44 1784 414962

Research interests

  • Narrative and memory in oral history
  • The social psychology of oral history
  • Public history and oral history
  • History of medicine and health (and in particular history of general practice under the National Health Service)
  • History of family and household (especially family, home and food)

Teaching

Teaching Office Hours (Spring 2012):
Thursdays 3-4 PM
Fridays 9-10 AM

I'm interested in supervising PhDs in the following areas:

  • Oral history
  • Oral history and public history
  • Oral history and medicine
  • The recent history of primary care

During Autumn term 2011 I'm responsible for our MA in Public History and I teach The Voice of the Public: Oral History in Public History ( (HS5462) as part of the MA.

I also teach on the following undergraduate courses:

  • HS1005 History and Meanings Part 2
  • HS1002: Varities of History from Herodotus to Postmodernism and After
  • HS1008 Doing History: Researching and Writing Critical History from Antiquity to Contemporary Times
  • HS1109 Conflict and Identity in the Modern World from 1789 to the Present
  • HS2235 From blood and guts to the worried well: medicine in modern Britain
  • HS3103 Comparative History and Historiography

I'm a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (41044) with an interest in e-learning, skills based learning and assessment types.

Affiliations

Chair of the Oral History Society.

Other work

I'm currently a member of the College's Research Ethics Committee as well as the ITAUG.

I have held a number of administrative positions in the department including dealing with admissions for MA History and having responsibility for the MA Public History and MA History web pages.

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