Gender and the History of Nursing

Gender and Nurses: Nursing and Gender

Colloguium Schedule 2011

16th History of Nursing Research Colloquium

Glasgow Caledonian University
Friday 1st April 2011

Organised by the Centre for the Social History
 of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow,
The Royal College of Nursing Archives and
The UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery

Hamish Wood Building, W727

0930-0945 Registration/Tea & Coffee

0945-1000 Welcome:
 John Stewart, Director of CSHHH at GCU
Session 1: International Links: Chair:  Susan McGann, Archivist, RCN

1000-1030 Speaker:                         Rosemary Wall, Kings College London
‘A good chance of getting married:  marriage as motivation, recruitment strategy and retention problem for nursing in the British Empire.’
Rapporteur:                  Helen Sweet, University of Oxford

1030-1100 Speaker:                         Tashia Scott, Oxford Brookes University
‘Refugee nurses in Britain and their impact on medicine, 1933-1948.’
Rapporteur:                   John Stewart, CSHHH

1100-1115 Tea & Coffee Break   
    
Session 2: Professional Boundaries: Chair:  Christine Hallett, Director, UKCHNM

1115-1145 Speaker:                  Sue Hawkins, University of Kingston
“‘Serious responsibilities…should never be allowed to devolve upon them’; struggles for professional territory in 19th century nursing.”
Rapporteur:                   Debbie Palmer, University of Exeter

1145-1215 Speaker:                 David Justham, University of Nottingham
‘The demise of cleaning as a nursing duty.’
Rapporteur:                   Barbara Mortimer, GCU

1215-1245 Speaker:                         Claire Chatterton, The Open University
‘An unsuitable job for a woman?  Gender and mental health nursing.’
Rapporteur:                   Tommy Dickinson, University of Central Lancashire
    
1245-1345 Lunch   
    
Session 3: Socialisation of nurses:
 Chair:  Barbara Mortimer, GCU

1345-1415 Speaker:                         Sarah Keeley, University of Bournemouth
‘Principles and practice of nursing:  an investigation of how nurses learnt their clinical skills, 1930-1965.’
Rapporteur:                   Susan McGann, RCN

1415-1445 Speaker:                         Janet Hargreaves, University of Huddersfield
‘Alice:  woman and nurse, nurse and woman.’
Rapporteur:                   Rona Dougall, Independent

    
1445-1500 Tea & Coffee Break   
    
Session 4: Pain &
‘Ordinariness’:
 Chair:  Helen Sweet, University of Oxford
1500-1530 Speaker:                 Carmen Mangion, Birkbeck, University of London
‘Pain, gender and nursing.’
Rapporteur:                   Christine Hallett, UKCHNM

1530-1600 Speaker:                        Jacinta Kelly, University of Manchester
‘Ordinary or heroic?  Civilian nurses in the second world war.’
Rapporteur:                 Alison O’Donnell, University of Dundee
    
1600-1630 Discussion Chair:  John Stewart, GCU

1930- Dinner The Red Onion, 257, West Campbell St.,

The organisers wish to thank the Wellcome Trust for their generous support in funding this event.