Andrew Burchell

Short presentation

Postdoc on ActDisease - I work on twentieth-century patient organisations in the UK

Biography

Postdoc, Department of the History of Science and Ideas, ActDisease, Uppsala Universitet, 2024-present

Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 'The Child's Speech: speech therapy, stammering and activism in Britain, c.1906-2000', University of Warwick, 2021-2024

Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award, 'Childhood and speech therapy in twentieth-century Britain', Department of History, University of Warwick, 2019-2021

PhD, University of Warwick, 2019

Research

Publications

Burchell, A., 'The Art of Speech: Elocution, Speech Training, Speech Therapy, and the Performative Limits of Class in Mid-twentieth-century Britain', Modern British History, 35:3 (2024), 354–374 https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwae043

Burchell, A. and Thomson, M., 'Composing Well-being: Mental Health and the Mass Observation Project in Twentieth-Century Britain', Social History of Medicine, 35:2 (2022), 444–472 https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab104

Burchell, A., 'At the Margins of the Medical? Educational Psychology, Child Guidance and Therapy in Provincial England, c.1945–74', Social History of Medicine, 34:1 (2021), 70–93 https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz097

Burchell, A., 'In Loco Parentis, Corporal Punishment and the Moral Economy of Discipline in English Schools, 1945–1986', Cultural and Social History, 15:4 (2018), 551-570 https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2018.1518562