Affiliated Groups

Connecting Three Worlds reconfigures the history of global health, exploring the contributions of socialist health internationalism during and after the Cold War. Based across Birkbeck, Exeter and UNAM, Mexico and funded by the Wellcome Trust.

The Hidden Persuaders Project Visions of brainwashed minds permeated Cold War culture, politics and science. The Hidden Persuaders project maps this history and ask how it influenced and was shaped by the ‘psy’ professions. Based at Birkbeck and funded by the Wellcome Trust.

The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Research Group (IPARG) is a group of academics, researchers and doctoral students at Birkbeck who employ interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to explore a wide range of topics in lived experience.

Recovery Histories. The research aims to understand how cultural, scientific, clinical and institutional ideas about trauma and recovery from CSA have developed over the second half of the twentieth century and why a medical model of recovery now dominates medical, psychiatric and public discourses of healing

Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters (SHaME). SHaME was a Wellcome-funded research project based at Birkbeck from 2018-2024, which explored the role of medicine and psychiatry in sexual violence. Although the project ended, there are many useful items available at https://shame.bbk.ac.uk/ including recordings of past events, blogs and resources from leading international scholars of sexual violence. 

The Waiting Times Project is based across Birkbeck and the University of Exeter, and opens up what it means to wait in and for healthcare by examining lived experiences, representations and histories of delayed and impeded time. Funded by the Wellcome Trust.