From 2024-30, Dr Fabiola Creed is a Research Associate on Professors Anna Greenwood, Alex Mold and Heather Wardle’s project, Kicking the Habit: Historicising ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025 (Wellcome funded). Her strand explores the gambling industry’s sponsorship of sport (football, F1, rugby, cricket and tennis).

From 2021-24, she was a Research Fellow on Professor Hilary Marland’s project The Last Taboo of Motherhood?: Postnatal Mental Disorders in 20th Britain (University of Warwick, Wellcome funded).

From 2020-21, she undertook a Early Career Fellowship on the Medical Humanities China-UK Exchange Programme (Universities of Strathclyde, Manchester and Shanghai), and a IAS Fellowship (Warwick).

From 2015-20, she completed her Medical Humanties MA/PhD on tanning technologies, notably sunbeds (Warwick), and was awarded a Secondment Fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. 

Fabiola has published on the history of maternal mental illness, and tanning culture in twentieth and early twenty-first century Britain. Her first book is The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture From Fad to Fear (Bloomsbury, 2025). The Wellcome Trust kindly funded all of her research; all of her publications are, therefore, open access. 

She is passionate about using her research to better inform policy and enjoys making history accessible to the public. Fabiola has provided expertise via national newspapers (Scotsman), digital press (Refinery29 and I-News), radio (Clyde 1), podcasts (Warwick PG), and also archive, campaign and government groups.

Fabiola is interested in the commercial determinants of health, specialising in the history of industry, advertising, technology, mass media, (patient-)consumer narratives, and stigma in twentieth and early twenty-first-century Britain.

Research groups

• Sociology
• Economic & Social History

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2023: Global Research Priority, and Centre for the History of Medicine Funding, Univeristy of Warwick (with Emeritus Professor Hilary Marland)

2022-3: Wellcome Trust Research Enrichment, Public Engagement Award (led by Emeritus Prof. Marland)

2022-3: Warwick University’s Arts & Humanities Impact Award (led by Emeritus Prof. Marland)

2020: Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, ECR Fellowship Award

2019: Wellcome Trust, Humanities and Social Science Secondment Fellowship Award, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

2016-20: Wellcome Trust, Medical Humanities PhD Award

2015-6: Wellcome Trust, History of Medicine MA Award

2012: University of Liverpool, Study Abroad Semester Award for Monash University, Australia. 

Fabiola is open—and looking forward—to supervising PhD students and their projects. She is interestested in supervising project on the history of controversial industries and products, and also maternal mental health, in twentieth and twenty-first-century Britain.

She has lectured and taught both undergraduates and postgraduates on History of Britain, Medical History, and Media and Health modules/courses at the University of Warwick (2022-24) and Strathclyde (2020-21).

Research fellowships

• 2020 - 2020: Wellcome Trust Secondment Fellowship, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology