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Greenlees, Janet

Dr. Janet Greenlees

Dr. Janet Greenlees BA, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, SFHEA

Reader in Health History
  • +44 141 331 8209
  • janet.greenlees@gcu.ac.uk
Dr Janet Greenlees is Reader in Health History. Her research interests cover modern American and British history, particularly gender, health and welfare history, poverty and environmental history. She has received research funding from the ESRC, Wellcome Trust, QNIS and other charities. She has published on a range of areas, including women and work, urban public health, occupational and environmental health and maternal health. Her most recent book is: When the Air became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries (Rutgers: 2019).

Her current research addresses maternal health and welfare in low-income communities and the disconnect between services offered and patient engagement. This research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust and involved collaboration with Poverty Alliance.

She is the Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (GCU), a research collaboration between scholars at GCU and Strathclyde Universities. She is on the Steering Group for the Glasgow Medical Humanities Network, and a member of the Scottish Poverty Information Research Unit (SPIRU) and the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health. She is a member of the ESRC Social Science Peer Review College and the Queen’s Nursing Institute of Scotland History Committee.
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