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Dr Angela Turner

Senior Teaching Fellow

History

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Personal statement

My teaching and research interests lie in the fields of health and social history. I have keen interest in the history of disability in relation to topics such as industrial injury and rehabilitation, modern warfare, sport and oral history. I teach a number of undergraduate courses relating to my research interests and am an active member of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare and the Scottish Oral History Centre.

Teaching

Year 1听 听 听 听 听 听 History 1B

Year 2听 听 听 听 听 听 Disease and Society

听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 War and Society in the Twentieth Century

Year 3/4听 听 听 听 Disability in Modern Britain

听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Bombers and Mash: Britain and the Home Front 1939-1945

听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Oral History Theory and Practice

Supervision I supervise large numbers of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in topics relating to my teaching and research interests in areas such as histories of disability, industrial health and culture, medicine, modern warfare, special education and oral history. I have also served as reviewer and internal examiner for a number of postgraduate students in areas including health and disability history.听

Leadership and Citizenship Roles I am 3rd year Undergraduate History Coordinator, History Exams Officer and Disability Advisor. I sit on the Faculty WAM working group and carried out the EIA for the new model. I was听 a member of the Athena Swan Committee who were sucessfully awarded a Bronze Award for Humanities in 2020.听

External Examining听I have served as external PhD examiner for the University of Kent and the University of Michigan. I am keen to further develop my external examining roles for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the future.听

Research and Scholarship I am active in research relating to both my historical and teaching interests. I provide peer review for relevant academic journals (including Social History of Medicine and Social History) and am on the editorial team for the h-disability monthly newsletter including听 key publications, reviews and disability history events. I am currently re-developing the project听 'Polio and Orthotic Rehabilitation - Capturing Narratives' with partners in the Engineering Faculty. I am also one of the organisers of the forthcoming Teaching and Scholarship Seminar Series for the School of Humanities.

My previous research projects have included听the 8 (Wellcome Trust Programme Award)

External Training and Consultacy - I have worked with a number of external disability charities and organisation and provided project support, tailored oral history training and project evaluation for community led oral history projects. Key partner organisations have included Down's Syndrome Scotland, ENABLE Scotland, Special Olympics, British and Scottish Gymnastics and the Scottish Council on Deafness听

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
2021
Recipient
2020
Recipient
2019
Recipient
2017
Recipient
2014

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Publications

FIG Paralympic Working Group Meeting, Cairo (2023)
British Gymnastics Coaching Apprentice Residential (2023)
British Gymnastics Community Consultation (2022)
Swedish Gymnastics Federation Conference (2021)
, McIvor Arthur
Scottish Historical Review Vol 96, pp. 187-213 (2017)
Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948, International Symposium, Swansea (2015)

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Professional Activities

Speaker
25/5/2022
Peer reviewer
2022
Examiner
2022
Speaker
10/10/2021
Examiner
2021
Peer reviewer
2021

Projects

Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Co-investigator) Williams, Manuela (Principal Investigator) Sabala, Vanesa (Co-investigator) Acosta, Lidia (Co-investigator) Turner, Angela (Co-investigator)
For several years prior to the COVID pandemic, the Modern Languages department organised the LATE (Language and teaching) seminars. In 20222/2023, I am a core member of the organising committee of the Teaching and Scholarship seminars in Humanities. The first guest in December 2022 was Dr Amparo of the Women鈥檚 legacy project, a European project creating a depository of resources of women鈥檚 work in art and literature. In 2023, the speakers , mostly internal, will present workshops and gave seminars on topics ranging from the technology of interactive lectures to pedagogical reflections on different types of feedback.
14-Jan-2022 - 23-Jan-2023
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Leading international working group for FIG on disability classification and the development of international pathways and relationships.
30-Jan-2021
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Provide ongoing support and research for the organisation in relation to areas such as inclusion and disability classification and helping to design EDI strategic plan and organisational structure.
31-Jan-2021
Turner, Angela (Academic)
Worked with DSS for a year creating accessible training for DSS and supporting commissioners (adults with DS) in the creation of a 鈥榗ommunity map鈥� and individual 鈥榣ife history鈥� presentations at the World Down Syndrome Congress.
01-Jan-2017 - 01-Jan-2018
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Worked with British Gymnastics and Scottish Disability Sport to create new Inclusion Module for British Gymnastics to help train coaches to be more inclusive in their coaching practice and to increase opportunities for disabled participants.
01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2016
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Academic Adviser/Trainer for Heritage Lottery Fund project with ENABLE Scotland which also focusses on experiences of special education. Created bespoke accessible oral history training workshops for school pupils with ASN and supported the oral history project and production of short film on the history of special education.
01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2017

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Contact

Dr Angela Turner
Senior Teaching Fellow
History

Email: angela.turner@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8369