Body of Work Heritage Podcast: Recent Episodes
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Body of Work is the heritage podcast from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. This podcast is all about celebrating collaborations and celebrating them through medical heritage. Each episode will feature a different professional who has worked with us here at the heritage department; we chat about their work, and what drew them to it. We also geek out a bit on medical heritage! Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.ukFollow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
Welcome to Body of Work, the heritage podcast from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. This podcast is all about celebrating collaborations and celebrating them through medical heritage. Each episode will feature a different professional who has worked with us here at the heritage department; we chat about their work, and what drew them to it. We also geek out a bit on medical heritage!
This week’s guest is Jane Chiodini, a travel health specialist and former Dean of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the College. Jane has a background in nursing and became the first nurse in England to obtain an MSc in Travel Medicine from the University of Glasgow. Jane has been a part of the College for many years and a prize for diplomates of Travel Medicine was launched in her name in 2022, the Jane Chiodini Prize, but I’ll let her talk about that…
This week’s guest is Maggie Reilly. Maggie is recently retired, having worked as the Curator of Zoology at the Hunterian for many years. The Hunterian is a complex of world-renowned museums in Glasgow housing the collections of Dr William Hunter, a pioneering obstetrician and anatomist of the 18th century. Maggie’s role covered the curation of the zoological specimens and anatomical specimens housed in the Hunterian collection. She is also an active member of the College’s heritage committee and has helped with a few of our outreach events, but I’ll let her talk about that…
This week’s guest is Mr Thisara Weerasuriya. Thisara is a specialty doctor in trauma and orthopaedics, as well as an honorary senior lecturer of the medical school at the University of Glasgow. Thisara is a member of the advisory committee of the College for equality, diversity and inclusion, and collaborated with the heritage department on one of our Reframed events, ‘A history of the first South Asian Licentiates’, but I’ll let him talk about that…
This week we are speaking to Elena Trimarchi. Elena is the Learning and Engagement Manager at the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum in Blantyre. A museum originally set up to celebrate the life of the Scottish medical missionary, the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum is one of Scotland’s pioneering museums addressing issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion. Elena actively works in reframing the story of David Livingstone, and worked with us in our Reframed event looking at the life of Livingstone and how Scotland presents the white saviour complex, but I’ll let her talk about that…
We are back for season 3 of Body of Work! This week's guest is Professor Miles Fisher. Professor Fisher is a retired consultant physician and diabetes specialist. He worked at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary for over 20 years and was appointed honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow in 2010. He was Vice-President (Medical) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2011-14 and still plays an active role in the College today. His recent research has focused on the history of the use of insulin in Scotland, with the first case in Glasgow being in 1923. He is also a keen cyclist (!), but I’ll let him talk about that…
Time for our new series of BITEsize podcast episodes! Body of Work Bites will take you through stories from the College's heritage in short, digestable episodes.
Join Digital Heritage Officer, Kirsty Earley, and Library and Heritage Manager, Clare Harrison, as they bring you the stories behind some of the College's heritage collections.
Time for our new series of BITEsize podcast episodes! Body of Work Bites will take you through stories from the College's heritage in short, digestable episodes.
Join Digital Heritage Officer, Kirsty Earley, and Library and Heritage Manager, Clare Harrison, as they bring you the stories behind some of the College's heritage collections.
Time for our new series of BITEsize podcast episodes! Body of Work Bites will take you through stories from the College's heritage in short, digestable episodes.
Join Digital Heritage Officer, Kirsty Earley, and Library and Heritage Manager, Clare Harrison, as they bring you the stories behind some of the College's heritage collections.
Time for our new series of BITEsize podcast episodes! Body of Work Bites will take you through stories from the College's heritage in short, digestable episodes.
Join Digital Heritage Officer, Kirsty Earley, and Library and Heritage Manager, Clare Harrison, as they bring you the stories behind some of the College's heritage collections.
Time for our new series of BITEsize podcast episodes! Body of Work Bites will take you through stories from the College's heritage in short, digestable episodes.
Join Digital Heritage Officer, Kirsty Earley, and Library and Heritage Manager, Clare Harrison, as they bring you the stories behind some of the College's heritage collections.
Time for our new series of BITEsize podcast episodes! Body of Work Bites will take you through stories from the College's heritage in short, digestable episodes.
Join Digital Heritage Officer, Kirsty Earley, and Library and Heritage Manager, Clare Harrison, as they bring you the stories behind some of the College's heritage collections.
Time for our new series of BITEsize podcast episodes! Body of Work Bites will take you through stories from the College's heritage in short, digestable episodes.
Join Digital Heritage Officer, Kirsty Earley, and Library and Heritage Manager, Clare Harrison, as they bring you the stories behind some of the College's heritage collections.
Another one?! Another bonus episode?! In this week’s episode, we pull back the curtain to interview Body of Work’s creative director and host, Kirsty Earley. Kirsty is the Digital Heritage and Engagement Officer at the College, with a background in anatomy and medical visualisation. She has worked over the years in digitising the College’s heritage collections as well as creating visualisation products to tell the stories of the College’s past. Join special host, Kristin Hay, as she chats to Kirsty about her work in anatomy, how the pandemic has brought digitisation to the forefront, and her love for Assassin’s Creed.
This week’s guest is Kristin Hay. Kristin is a doctoral researcher in the history of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde, and has worked with us at the College as a PhD research intern. Her focus has been on gender inequality in the College’s history, specifically looking at the College minutes of our archive collection. In this episode we will chat about the hurdles medical women faced in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as Kristin’s experience of working with the heritage team!
This week’s guest is Sarah Spence, a Welcome Trust PhD candidate in Medical Humanities/Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her research looks into stigmatised health conditions usually associated with Scottish public health in recent Scottish literature. She ran a creative writing workshop during the pandemic using our collections, allowing writers to access our collecitons digitally to inspire their stories. In this episode we chat about the Glasgow Effect, tips for writer's block, and a cat named Smirnoff!
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Francis Osis. Francis has recently completed his doctorate looking into 18th century scientists and how they perceived sex and venereal diseases, using anatomical specimens to do so. We have worked with Francis before at several outreach events, including our Night at the Museum of Anatomy events. In this episode we chat about whether science is truly objective, extracting DNA from historical specimens, and the Derwent Pencil Museum!
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Dr Megan Coyer, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Critical Studies of the University of Glasgow. Megan is also the Deputy Director of the Medical Humanities Research Centre and has wide range of research interests in the field. In this episode we chat about her research into the Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, the authors who published in it, and what on earth Robert Burns has to do with phrenology!
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Professor Ian Bone. Professor Bone is a retired neurologist who worked as a consultant at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow for many years. He is a member of the heritage committee at the College and has recently published a book on the history, cultural associations, and social impact of epilepsy. In this episode we chat about his book Sacred Lives, why he chose to pursue a career in neurology, the personal experiences he has had with epilepsy, and making model boats!
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Dr Ourania Varsou, a Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Glasgow. Ourania teaches anatomy to a variety of students at the university, and specialises in the anatomy of the head and neck, as well as medical imaging. She has a keen interest in medical humanities, and has worked with us looking into how women have been portrayed in medical books throughout history. In this episode we chat about her research into the portrayal of women and the importance of the medical humanities in the modern medical curriculum.
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Dr Charlotte Orr. Charlotte has recently completed her doctorate in medical humanities, looking into the life, work, and literature of Sir Ronald Ross. We have worked with Charlotte in her Literature of Medicine teachings, and she also happens to know the Ronald Ross collection of our archives inside out. In this episode we chat about the life and work of Ronald Ross, Charlotte’s love of literature, and the wonderful world of Victorian medicine.
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Dr Morven McElroy. Morven is a consultant geriatrician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the current Honorary Librarian at the College. She is an Office Bearer of the College and is a key part of the Heritage team as well as being a full-time doctor. In this episode we chat about what an honorary librarian does and the role of women in the College’s history.
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Victoria McCulloch. Victoria is a lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh and a medical illustrator. We have worked with her and her colleagues on the outreach events, “Night at the Museum of Anatomy” where she used body painting to teach people about human anatomy. We chat about her love of anatomy, illustration, and the digestive system!
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Lucy Threadgold, a historian of medicine currently based in Glasgow. Lucy took part in one of our research events, the Hackathon, and has also helped us with our research into our exhibition Great Minds: the Brain in Medicine, Surgery, and Psychiatry. Her research has focused on asylum architecture during the 18th century. We chat about mental health, asylum management and architecture, and how we can learn from the past to better today.
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Dr Cheryl McGeachan. Cheryl is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow with whom we have worked on several occasions. Her research interests include criminal-medical histories and geography, and she recently undertook a research project funded by the Carnegie Trust looking into police surgery in 19th century Scotland. We worked with her on this project to look into the career of Sir William Macewen. We chat about her ongoing research relationship with RD Laing, living in Glasgow, and who ultimately was the best police surgeon in Scotland.
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Sam Langford, an award-winning science communicator based in Glasgow. Sam is the Science Learning Coordinator at the Glasgow Science Centre, which is one of the must-see five star visitor attractions in Scotland. We have worked with Sam on several occasions at the Glasgow Science Centre through different events, such as Curiosity Live and Meet the Expert. We chat about science, animals, and our love of museums!
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
This week’s guest is Marianne Macrae. Marianne is a writer from Edinburgh who recently won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award for Poetry. She recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing researching talking animals in poetry, which was funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities. Marianne worked with us at the College a few years ago, looking at the life and pioneering work of Joseph Lister. We chat about poetry, Lister’s love of fighting germs, and who we think the real Jack the Ripper was.
Feel free to email us with any questions: library@rcpsg.ac.uk
Follow us on twitter: @rcpsgheritage
Welcome to Body of Work, the new heritage podcast from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. This podcast is all about celebrating collaborations and celebrating them through medical heritage. Each episode will feature a different professional who has worked with us here at the heritage department; we chat about their work, and what drew them to it. We also geek out a bit on medical heritage!
Look out for episodes in September 2020!