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Associate Professor of Mental Health Histories @Trentuni, social history of mental healthcare @HealthMemories, trustee @OralhistorySoc.
Nottingham, England
Joined April 2009
I'm very pleased that my new co-authored article is our today! It explores the use of oral history in doctoral research, the under-investigated emotional labour involved in doing oral history, and the lack of support for dealing with it in HE. @oralhistreview
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RT @rwjdingwall: A really important, evidence-based, critique of some long-standing fashions in discussing health practitioner/patient rela….
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RT @CoventryIrish: As part of the work we do for survivors of #MotherandBabyHomes, we’re working in partnership with Professor Geraldine Br….
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RT @Brady_G_M: Excited to start our @NTUSocSciences important research project with @CoventryIrish and @LDNIrishCentre @Verusca.
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RT @DanHayesPhD: We are looking for a #researchfellow /#trialmanager to come and work with us within @UCL_SBB on 2 exciting #socialprescrib….
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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Book launch: Emotional labour in oral history research: the hidden toll (2025).Wed 26 March #oralhistory #OralHistorians #emotions #HigherEd #EthicsofCare #affect #relationality.Registration:
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RT @dr_hlfoster: Kimberley, Notts tomorrow sharing stories @rumbletums cafe for LOST+FOUND residency @britishlibrary. Excited to connect wi….
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RT @ChrisReynolds68: Thrilled to announce the launch of Voices of '74 digital exhibition. Huge thanks to all the team at National Museums N….
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RT @AsylumMagUK: Meeting of Critical and Creative Approaches to Mental Health Practice (CCrAMHP, Lancaster) Explorations with Madzines. Ev….
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RT @rebeccawynter: 📢New #OA #HistPsych article📢. 'An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Co….
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From the 1950s, aversion therapy gained an international foothold as a behaviourist means to alter what was then considered ‘deviant’ behaviour. Using primary r...
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Check out the 2024-25 NTU #oralhistory seminar series with special guest Alessandro Portelli who will visit us in person on 21 May 2025, all welcome. @ChrisReynolds68 @OralHistorySoc @OHS_HigherEd @OHC_SLF @NCL_OralHistory @ntu_research
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RT @ChrisReynolds68: On day 2 of 4 Slow Memory core group meeting we heard from local education and funding stakeholders @UlsterMuseum. We….
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On my way to @UniversityLeeds to give a talk on interpreting #oralhistories of past models of mental healthcare as part of the Oral History Collective @OHC_SFL seminar series. Looking forward to meeting all! @ntu_research.
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RT @ChrisReynolds68: Day 1 of our 4-day Slow Memory core meeting in Belfast @UlsterMuseum was fantastic. Many thanks to all involved. @ntu_….
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RT @OHC_SLF: 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 for details about our next two events!. 19th Sep, online: PhD panel & Prof. Jolly (@ConnHistofBBC). 20th Sep….
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RT @ChrisReynolds68: Despite never being a fan of seeing/hearing myself on screen, I am quite pleased how this short video on my research h….
ntu.ac.uk
Chris Reynolds is Professor of Contemporary European History and Memory Studies. His research spans a range of areas and projects with a particular focus in Oral History and Memory Studies.
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Thank you @HeritageFundUK for producing this case study on inclusive #oralhistories based on a mental health #heritage project I have led for the last 2 years #publichistory @OralHistorySoc @NTUSocSciences @74msrc @Brady_G_M @FHowardNG . Find out more
mentalhealthcarememories.co.uk
This heritage project aims to collect the oral histories of mental health service-users, staff and carers who witnessed the transition from the mental hospital to community care in the 1990s in...
This memory box was created to remember personal histories of mental health care in Nottingham. Find out how @HealthMemories and @Verusca used our funding to run an inclusive oral history project in our latest case study. Read more 👉
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RT @Crichton_Royal: 'Crossing Borders to Visibility' is a 2-part free event exploring shared creativity through Dingleton asylum (1872-2001….
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