Dr Nicole Baur
Status/discipline:
History
Contact Details:
Research projects:
This weather always gets me down (2012) - ISSF funded; Remembering the mental hospital (2015-7) - HLF funded.
Related academic outputs:
Baur N (accepted, forthcoming 2024) “We bent the motorway”. In: Punzi, Elisabeth & Steele, Linda (Eds) Sites of Conscience: Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization. UBC Press; Baur N (accepted, forthcoming 2024) “Unsettling the Past: Creating a Multi-Vocal Heritage of Exminster Hospital through Co-Production and Performance”. In: Singer, Christoph et al. (Eds) Narrating the heritage of psychiatry. Brill; Baur N (2019) This weather alwaysgets me down, Health 23(2), 180-196; Baur N (2017), ExminsterHospital explored through photovoice and digital storytelling, Sozialraum.de; Baur N (2015), “Families stressand mental illnessin Devon, c. 1940s to 1970s”. In: Jackson M (Ed) Stress in post-war Britain,1945-1985. London: Pickering& Chatto, 31-44; Baur N, Melling J (2014), Dressingthe patient, Textile History 45(2), 145-170; Baur N (2013) Family influenceand psychiatric care,Endeavour 37(3), 172-183; Baur N, DraiseyJ & MellingJ (2012), Public policy and patient privacy,Archives XXXVI, 36- 49; Baur N, Melling J (2011), Fabricating the body, Textile History42, 261-262.
Conference and workshop presentations:
06/2019: ‘Remembering the Mental Hospital’ – a participatory research project at the crossroads of strategic forgetting, memorialisation, and remembrance; 09/2016: ‘Who is in charge? When roles of care and control reverse the contested space of letter writing at the Devon County Mental Hospital, c.1930s-1960s; 07/2016 ASA 2016, Durham: ‘The Devon County Mental Hospital (DCMH): ‘good air’ incarnate’; 04/2016 University of Exeter, Centre for Medical History: ‘Remembering the Mental Hospital’; 09/2015 RGS-IBG, Exeter: ‘This weather always gets me down’; 07/2015 ICHG, London: ‘”Mental Inscapes” The interplay between planned spatialisation and the creation of alternative spaces in the Devon County Lunatic Asylum’; 05/2014 Birkbeck University, Workshop ‘Alternative Psychiatric Narratives’: ‘Temporal maps and the production of inscapes in psychiatric institutions, 1940s-2010s’; 01/2013 University of Exeter, Medical and Health Research Showcase, Poster presentation: ‘This weather always gets me down’; 06/2012 University of Exeter, Workshop ‘Expertise versus Knowledge: popular health and landscapes of reform’: ‘Revealing the hidden third party: they key role of relatives in the management of mental illness’; 04/2012 University of Glasgow, ESSH Conference: ‘The “revolving door patient revisited”: environmental risk factors in readmissions to British Mental Hospitals in the 20th century’ (with J. Melling); 04/2012 University of Exeter, Conference ‘The stress of life’: ‘Stress as a cause of mental illness and its translation into ordinary life’; 09/2011 University of Exeter, Workshop ‘Getting into and out of the asylum’: ‘”Lost in Translation?” Voices of lay people and professionals on the perceived causes of mental illness’; 07/2011 University of Exeter, BSHS Annual Conference: ‘Chemical straight-jackets and the “Largactil shuffle” – the pharmacological era and emergence of the revolving door patient in mental health history’; 04/2011 University of Exeter, Conference ‘Fabricating the body: Textiles and human health in historical perspective’: ‘Dressing and undressing the patient’ (with J. Melling); 02/2011 LSTM, Conference ‘Global Health Rights in Historical Perspective’: ‘From incarceration to the “Buddi tracker” – Patient rights in mental health care versus protection of the general public’; 07/2010 Durham University, SSHM Conference: ‘Continuity and change in psychiatric practice and patient care’.
