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Angela Turner is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde's School of Humanities. Her research focuses on health and social history, particularly disability history in contexts like industrial injury, modern warfare, sport, and oral history. She teaches undergraduate courses including Disease and Society, War and Society in the Twentieth Century, and Disability in Modern Britain. Turner holds leadership roles as 3rd Year Undergraduate History Coordinator, History Exams Officer, and Disability Advisor. She contributed to the Athena Swan Committee which secured a Bronze Award for Humanities in 2020.
Externally, she chairs the International Paralympic Working Group and British Gymnastics Disability Panel, advocating for disability inclusion in sports. Her projects include redeveloping the 'Polio and Orthotic Rehabilitation' initiative with Engineering Faculty partners. She serves as editor for H-Disability List and peer reviewer for journals like Social History of Medicine. Key collaborations involve disability charities such as Down's Syndrome Scotland and Special Olympics.
Her teaching excellence was recognized in 2020, and she actively supervises student dissertations across disability history, industrial health, and oral history. Research highlights include the Wellcome Trust-funded 'Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948.'
