Rosemary Elliot

Dr. Rosemary Elliot is a Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, with an associate affiliation in the School of Health & Wellbeing. Her office is located in the Gilbert Scott Building. She holds a PhD and has conducted post-doctoral research on smoking and health in Britain and Germany, later expanding to civil registration systems, reproductive loss, and family dynamics in Scotland.

Her research examines the intersection of legal/policy history with social and medical contexts, particularly individuals' navigation of family life events. Current work focuses on Scottish divorce history since 1830, analyzing legal developments, migration impacts, and lived experiences through court records, newspapers, and personal testimonies. Research interests span:

• Gender and generational studies
• Family law and social policy
• Reproductive health history
• Public health and behavioral change
• Socio-legal responses to life events

Her publications predominantly explore 20th-century social transformations, with recurring themes of family breakdown, health policy conflicts, women's experiences, and postwar societal reconstruction in Britain and Germany. Methodologically, she employs diverse sources including legal archives, periodicals, and oral histories.

Dr. Elliot has secured significant grants including an AHRC project on working-class marriage (2012-2017), a Wellcome Trust award on smoking in Germany (2004-2010), and Economic History Society funding for miscarriage history research (2018). She currently supervises PhD candidate Ivana Sanchez Hervas and has guided completed theses on homosexuality rights, alcoholism, stillbirth, family structures, weddings, and childlessness.

She contributes to academic leadership as former head of Economic and Social History (2021-2024) and editorial board member of Gender & History (2015-2018). Teaching covers undergraduate to postgraduate levels including courses on families, society, and the state in Britain.