Dr Jacqueline Jenkinson

Senior Lecturer

History University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Dr Jacqueline Jenkinson

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About me

M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Dr Jacqueline Jenkinson is a modern History graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. She has published widely in the fields of migrant and minority history in the First World War, on the 1919 seaport riots, on Scotland's health in the inter war era, and on medical professionalisation in the 18th-20th centuries. Teaching Special Subject module: ‘Immigration to Britain, from the 1880s to the 1980s’. Semester 5 course ‘Black People in Britain, 1750-1950: Racism, Riot and Reaction’. Semester 4 module ‘Hands on History: The Social History of the Victorian City.' She also lectures and tutors in modules HISU9S3 ‘Reputations in History’; and HISU9X2 ‘Concepts of History’ . She supervises History UG dissertations, She has also supervised to a successful conclusion three PhD students in the last 4 years. She is currently is supervising one Phd and one MPhil student.

She is currently researching the government policy of exclusion of black colonial troops from peace processions at the end of the First World War. She published a book on First World War government policy towards minority and colonial peoples in Britain in 2020. She is also currently working on an article on Scottish women humanitarians who supported Belgian refugees. This research follows on from the award of a 2 year workshops grant to network and hold workshops relating to the treatment of Belgian refugee women suffering from war trauma awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (ended 2018) and a pilot project grant to investigate wartime British responses to Belgian refugees by BA/Leverhulme in 2016. She has edited a book arising from a special edition of the journal 'Immigrants & Minorities' on Belgian refugees in the First World War to which she contributed two chapters in 2018. She also co-authored an article with Dr C Verdier (lecturer in French at Univ. Strathclyde) on women refugees and war trauma for the Women's History Journal in 2019. She is also an active researcher in the social history of medicine and has published a book on the inter-war history of Scotland’s health. She contributed a book chapter on Scottish medical societies and the Scottish Enlightenment in 2020. She also published two articles in UK and US medical history journals (in 2013 and 2015) on the career activities of poor doctors in working class urban Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries following a previous Royal Society of Edinburgh grant award on this topic in 2012.

Divisional / Faculty Contribution

Divisional Chief Examiner (2016- Aug 2023)

Education

Postgraduate - PhD and MSc in History both at the University of Edinburgh,

Undergraduate - MA Honours Modern and Medieval History, University of Glasgow

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