Dr. Janet Greenlees
Reader in Health History
Department of Social Sciences
Janet Greenlees is a Reader in Health History. Her research interests cover modern American and British history, in particular maternal health inequalities, gender, labour and environments.
Her research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, ESRC, AHRC and numerous charities. She is currently Principal Investigator on an AHRC funded project ‘One-Parent Families and Vulnerability’ that seeks to connect historians, archivists and third-sector partners from the OECD countries of England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand and Australia.
Previous research centred around gender and labour and her monographs include: When the Air became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries (Rutgers University Press, 2019) and Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860 (Ashgate, 2007).
Janet is GCU Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), a research collaboration between scholars at GCU and Strathclyde University.
Janet is a Co-Editor for the journal Social History of Medicine and will become managing editor in July 2024. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).