Dr. Janet Greenlees
Reader in Health History
Department of Social Sciences
Janet Greenlees is Reader in Health History and a researcher in the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health. She is also the GCU Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), which is a research collaboration between scholars at GCU and Strathclyde University. She is the GCU Programme Leader of the MSc Health History, a collaboration between GCU and Strathclyde Universities. Janet is also a current Co-Editor for Social History of Medicine and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
Janet’s principal research interests cover modern American and British history, in particular relationships maternal health inequalities, gender and work and histories of internal environments. Her research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, ESRC, AHRC and numerous charities and she has published in many peer reviewed journals and with leading publishers, including her most recent monograph When the Air became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries (Rutgers University Press, 2019).