"Second annual medical history workshop for postgraduate historians" to be held at Oxford in 15-16 September 2011 (360G-Wellcome-097211_Z_11_Z)

The workshop has four main aims. Firstly, to bring together (200 words) postgraduate medical history students working in Centres around the country on a variety of topics and time-periods. Centres for medical history are often relatively small and isolated within their History Departments, and graduate students especially so, and it would therefore be advantageous to provide an opportunity for creating and strengthening ties between medical historians through the forging of new contacts and networks. The second aim is to engage with a diverse range of methodologies and research strategies. Students working in different areas will bring a variety of research backgrounds, skills, and areas of expertise. It will be fruitful therefore for students to share and compare research methodologies for mutual benefit. Thirdly, the workshop will furnish postgraduates with the intellectual support that they need for undertaking their studies. This will be achieved be achieved through the delivery of question and answer sessions giving tips and advice, answering questions and opening up discussion of some of the practical and academic challenges faced by medical historians. Finally, the workshop will provided a forum for the Trust to inform scholars about its longer-term research support strategy for both doctoral and post-doctoral research.