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Lecturer and Research Fellow in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford

Dr Roderick Bailey is a historian at the University of Oxford where he specialises in the the history of medicine and the study of modern conflict.

A lecturer in the history of medicine and a research fellow at Oxford’s new Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, he is currently engaged in a major study of international responses to outbreaks of epidemic disease in the mid-C20th, with a particular focus on vector control and the movement and management of human populations.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford
  • 2016–2018
    Departmental Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
  • 2013–2016
    Research Fellow, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford

Education

  • 2004 
    University of Edinburgh, PhD in History
  • 1998 
    University of Cambridge, MPhil in History
  • 1997 
    University of Edinburgh, MA in History

Professional Memberships

  • Royal Geographical Society
  • Royal Historical Society