Andrew Burchell

Short presentation

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

My forthcoming book is about stammering, community and medicalisation in twentieth-century Britain.

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

Söderfeldt, Y., Burchell, A., Reed, J. and Skeppstedt, M., ‘Topic timelines for enabling close and distant reading of discursive shifts’, Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11:24 (2025) https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.286

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