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Doctor Angela Turner

Senior Teaching Fellow

History

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Personal statement

My teaching and research interests lie in the fields of health and social history. I have keen interest in the history of disability, the history of industrial injury and rehabilitation, the history of disability sport and oral history. I teach a number of undergraduate courses relating to my research interests and am an active member of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare and the Scottish Oral History Centre. Teaching Year 1 History 1B Year 2 Disease and Society Year 3/4 Disability in Modern Britain Bombers and Mash: Britain and the Home Front 1939-1945 Oral History Theory and Practice Research From 2011 - 2015 I was a researcher on the Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948 (Wellcome Trust Programme Award)

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
2021
Recipient
2020
Recipient
2019
Recipient
2017
Recipient
2014

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Publications

FIG Paralympic Working Group Meeting, Cairo (2023)
British Gymnastics Coaching Apprentice Residential (2023)
British Gymnastics Community Consultation (2022)
Swedish Gymnastics Federation Conference (2021)
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Scottish Historical Review Vol 96, pp. 187-213 (2017)
Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948, International Symposium, Swansea (2015)

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Professional Activities

Speaker
25/5/2022
Peer reviewer
2022
Examiner
2022
Speaker
10/10/2021
Peer reviewer
2021
Examiner
2021

Projects

Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Co-investigator) Williams, Manuela (Principal Investigator) Sabala, Vanesa (Co-investigator) Acosta, Lidia (Co-investigator) Turner, Angela (Co-investigator)
For several years prior to the COVID pandemic, the Modern Languages department organised the LATE (Language and teaching) seminars. In 20222/2023, I am a core member of the organising committee of the Teaching and Scholarship seminars in Humanities. The first guest in December 2022 was Dr Amparo of the Women’s legacy project, a European project creating a depository of resources of women’s work in art and literature. In 2023, the speakers , mostly internal, will present workshops and gave seminars on topics ranging from the technology of interactive lectures to pedagogical reflections on different types of feedback.
14-Jan-2022 - 23-Jan-2023
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Leading international working group for FIG on disability classification and the development of international pathways and relationships.
30-Jan-2021
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Provide ongoing support and research for the organisation in relation to areas such as inclusion and disability classification and helping to design EDI strategic plan and organisational structure.
31-Jan-2021
Turner, Angela (Academic)
Worked with DSS for a year creating accessible training for DSS and supporting commissioners (adults with DS) in the creation of a ‘community map’ and individual ‘life history’ presentations at the World Down Syndrome Congress.
01-Jan-2017 - 01-Jan-2018
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Worked with British Gymnastics and Scottish Disability Sport to create new Inclusion Module for British Gymnastics to help train coaches to be more inclusive in their coaching practice and to increase opportunities for disabled participants.
01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2016
Turner, Angela (Principal Investigator)
Academic Adviser/Trainer for Heritage Lottery Fund project with ENABLE Scotland which also focusses on experiences of special education. Created bespoke accessible oral history training workshops for school pupils with ASN and supported the oral history project and production of short film on the history of special education.
01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2017

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Contact

Doctor Angela Turner
Senior Teaching Fellow
History

Email: angela.turner@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8369