25th Annual Research Colloquium Program
Map of central Greenwich hotels, Richard the First pub and Royal Naval College
Thursday the 27th of June (the evening before the Colloquium):
Space has been reserved at the Richard the First Pub located at 52/54 Royal Hill from 6:30 pm onwards for pre-colloquium evening with attendants. Food and drink can be ordered individually. Please see the link above for a helpful map
Friday the 28th of June, Colloquium held in room QA 010 of the Queen Anne Court building.
Nursing Colloquium 2024 Schedule Downloadable pdf
9-9.30 Reception
9.30-9.45 Welcome and housekeeping
9.45-11.15 Panel One: nursing in 20th-century wartime
Wendy Maddocks, Broken Nurses: the impact of foreign service on the health of New Zealand army nurses in the First World War
Linda Palfreeman, Frontline nursing during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39): implications for British planning for the outbreak of the Second World War
Jane Brooks, ‘The grey zone’ for Jewish prisoner nurses: survival, caring, and moral ambiguity in Nazi concentration camps
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Panel Two: professional developments for nurses in the late 20th century
Jan-Thore Lockertsen, Norwegian theatre nursing – from a training on the job to a Masters degree
Kelly Swaby, Nurse practitioners: the lens to British society
12.30-1 Poster presentations (for which discussion can continue during and after lunch):
Gavin Wilk, Thomas Lipton’s transnational benevolence towards nurses during the First World War
Katherine Roberts, Becoming family: parallels between nurses’ provision of emotional support to patients during COVID and the Second World War
Antonia Harland-Lang, Co-curating an exhibition about the history of children and young-people’s nursing
Teresa Doherty and Sarah Rogers, Nurses in Red: RCN History of Nursing Forum’s Wikipedia project
1-2 Lunch
2-3.30 Panel Three: Individual nursing histories
Odette Best and Tracey Bunda, Aboriginal relationality as method in framing the historiography of Aboriginal Australian nurses 1890-1950: Muriel Stanley
Claire Chatterton, ‘A Very Considerable Goose’: Mary Stanley and the Crimean War
Judi Pettigrew, Ciara Egan, Naoise McMahon, Gwawr Faulconbridge, Irene Ilott, Thomas Costello an overlooked mid-20th-centry psychiatric nurse and occupational therapist
3.30-3.45 Break
3.45-4.45 Panel Four: Nursing in historic institutions
Erin Spinney, Medical practitioner authority, nursing practice, and Haslar Naval Hospital, 1755-1775
Stuart Wildman, Evaluating the impact of the Northern Workhouse Nursing Association
4.45-5 Close