Dr Hannah Elizabeth
Research Fellow
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
I am a cultural historian of public health, sexuality, emotions, and childhood. My core research focus is on histories of HIV in Britain.
Most recently I was a Research Fellow for the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award 'The Cultural History of the NHS' in the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, researching late twentieth century lesbian health activism in the Midlands.
Before joining Warwick, I worked as a research assistant at LSHTM on Alex Mold's Wellcome Investigator Award, Placing the Public in Public Health: Public Health in Britain, 1948-2010, investigating the role of emotion in public health.
I completed my PhD in 2017 at the University of Manchester, it investigated the representation of HIV positive identities to children and adolescents in Britain, 1981-1997. Currently, alongside my research on lesbian health, I am writing a monograph based on my PhD research and preparing to take up my Wellcome Research Fellowship ‘What’s love got to do with it? Building and maintaining HIV-affected families through love, care, and activism in Edinburgh 1981-2016’
Affiliations
Teaching
I have taught history, history of medicine, and history of science at undergraduate and masters level.
Research
My current research explores how HIV-affected people built and maintained families in Edinburgh, influencing national and international policy and practice through daily acts of love, care, and activism between 1981–2016. It uses ‘family’ broadly, to mean communities of friends, lovers and relatives. It asks to what extent were meanings of ‘family’ and ‘activism’ changed by HIV-related care work and the changing landscape of health and social care, and to what extent reproductive politics and childcare changed as HIV+ individuals had, or sought to have, children.