Lecturer in Economic and Social History. Historian of medicine, gender and oral history. 

I am interested in the intersections of gender, sex, reproduction and medicine. My previous research focused on reproductive health and rights activism through the lens of the Scottish Abortion Campaign. My PhD thesis explored the impact of the growing availability of birth control in Scotland during the 1970s, through archival evidence and an extensive oral history project. 

I am passionate about reproductive health and rights activism, sexual and reproductive health, birth control, pregnancy and parenthood through an intersectional lens.

More broadly, I am interested in medical professionalism and the development of health and healthcare from the nineteenth century. I am an experienced oral historian and contribute to the development of oral history theory and methodologies in my work. 

Research groups

• Economic & Social History

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Learning and Teaching Development Fund (2023-2024)

Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship Award (2018-2022) 

Wellcome Trust Masters Studentship Award (2017-2018) 

I am open to acting as a PhD supervisor for students interested in the history of sex, gender, medicine and oral history. 

• Chou, Jean Tzu-Yin
  Local mobility, medical management, and the founding of hospitals by the Chinese communities in the Straits-Settlements-era Singapore, circa. 1826-1942

I teach across several undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Glasgow, including:

Pre-honours:

• Economic and Social History 2A: Britain 1770-1914  
• Economic and Social History 2B: Britain 1914-2008 

Honours:

• Addiction in the Modern World 
• Motherhood and Maternity 
• Researching Economic and Social History 2
• Oral History for Social Scientists 

Postgraduate Taught:

• Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa
• Research Design

I also provide dissertation supervision for undegraduate and postgraduate taught students. 

Associate Fellow of the Recognising Excellence in Teaching Framework

Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Best College Teacher Award (Nominee), Teaching Excellence Awards 2024 

Leah Leneman Essay Prize Runner Up (2019) 

Neil Rafeek Oral History Prize Winner (2017) 

Public Engagement

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Admitting Women Exhibition

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Admitting Women Blog Series

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Vaccination - finding the 'perfect disease' Exhibition

BBC Radio Scotland, 'Sex and the Single Girl', Time Travels

Body of Work Podcast, 'Kristin Hay'